Tap a regular guitar, with a Fargobar!!

[rjgoos]

Tapping a regular electric guitar can be a great introduction into this style of play, or (as Stanley Jordan, Adam Fulara, Jesus Aunon, HP Crazy, Mathias Sorof and others have proven) a subject worthy of serious musical dedication.

I was never able to get comfortable with tapping a regular guitar, in a regular guitar position. Either the fingers on the right hand had to be too parallel to the strings (Webster/Bunker-style), or the right wrist was bent. Traktor has come up with a solution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7TsqVo_qM) but it involves drilling extra holes in the guitar.

Here is my humble contribution. It is a lap bar assembly that can be put on many styles of electric guitar for only a few dollars, that puts the neck in a comfortable position for tapping.

The URL is:

http://rjaysplace.com/fargobar/fargobar.html

A Fargobar and a regular electric guitar set up for tapping (low action, flat relief to neck), can also make an inexpensive "travel tapper", something to take on the road.


My html skills are rudimentary, so sorry for the primitive look of the web site.

The overall web site is under construction. I hope to have every link done by 1 August.

[Krappy]

thanks for the link RJG--i turned one of my students on to it. he plays an ibanez 8, and was hesitant to add strap buttons on the horns. this is a great solution.

k.

[rjgoos]

Originally posted by Krappy
thanks for the link RJG--i turned one of my students on to it. he plays an ibanez 8, and was hesitant to add strap buttons on the horns. this is a great solution.

k.


Thanks, Kevin. That was the objective, to make it easy for people to try tapping with a regular electric guitar.