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Introduction

The tap guitar, or tiptar, is a kind of electric guitar tapped with the tip of the fingers. Instead of plucking the strings, like on the normal guitar, you tap the strings between two frets, with the tips of your fingers. Advantage: you can play two independent melodic lines, like Bach’s two voices inventions. You can also play a melody with the right hand, for instance, and accompany in chords and bass lines with left hand. Or else you can play just one melody by alternating both hands. The t-g can have one region, like the classical guitar or the 8-strings guitar. Or it can have 2 regions, with, in general, 6 strings for the melody, and 6 strings for the bass and accompaniment.

E-tap Seminar

E-Tap Events

Webinar: The Style of Rod Serrao

Sunday March 28 Time 16h – 19h GMT (17- 20h Brussels time)

Rod Serrao, great bass and Chapman Stick player, presents us ‘Tapping Classical’. How to arrange classical and light guitar pieces for the tap-guitar. Serrao like Latin style which he plays with perfect precision and musicality.

Webinar: The Style of Tomas Merlo, ‘Beautiful Bass Lines’

Given the success of the first class, we organise a second class on Sunday April 25, 2021 Time: 16h-19h GMT/: (17h-20h Brussels time)

Tomas Merlo, great bass and tap-guitar player, will show us how to build and play beautiful bass lines. We practice a simple standard ‘Tune Up’ by Eddie Vinson, and on the chords, we play progressively: roots only, roots-fiths, roots-fifths-thirds, full arpeggios connected with minimum steps, passing notes and more… Sunday February 28, 15h GMT, Please register at clic@clicmusic.be .

Webinar: The style of Jim Wright

Sunday November 15, 2020 Time: 15h-18h GMT/

Jim presents his great style through compositions of Frank Zappa which he plays so well. Compositions will include Black Napkins, Zoot Allures (see Jim playing https://youtu.be/CjZA62zOHkw) , Dupree’s Paradise, Black Page 2. Daniel Schell will introduce an analysis of those tunes. Please register at : clic@clicmusic.be Participation 70€