The first 45 seconds he is asking him what he does for wok where he lives and stuff like that. Then he ask him to show how he plays guitar since "he heard" that he plays it in a versy strange way. The guitar player says that he is self teached and he always played that way. Then the demo starts. At 1:25 he says he is going to play a mambo. At the end he asks him if he knows anybody else that plays that way and he says he doesnt know anybody else that plays that way and that it is his personal tecnique. Then interviewr says that this tecnique gives a feel like a double bass and the guitar player says that its true and on the guitar it sounds more percussive. So he proceed to play a jazzy song. The video ends with the interviwer saying "Maybe one day you will teach this to all the world" and the guitar players reply "Do you think? I dont know I think its too much for me". End of the story
Here is the translation: M: Dr. Vittorio Camardese! V: Good evening M: Thank you for coming V: Thanks to you for inviting me M: You travel a lot, huh? V: The guitar is not mine, they lent it to me. M: Haha, you don't travel? V: I can't.. because.. M: Sit down V: because I work in hospital and I am not allowed to do it M: Where do you work? V: In San Filippo hospital M: In Rome? V: Yes, in Rome M: Did you have to ask for a special permit to come here? V: Yes, I had to ask my supervisor M: Who is he? V: He's Dr. Giacobini M: Is it considered undignified for a doctor to play the guitar? V: No, but it's a matter of education.. M: You're a radiologist, right? V: Yes M: I have been told that you have a particular way of playing guitar V: Yeah that's right M: A particular technique, eh? V: Well yes, I've always played this way M: Did you learn on your own? V: Yes M: You don't know music? V: Ehm, no. M: Let'see! V: See, this is the technique. I don't pinch the string, but I beat it. M: Let's listen to a song. It's a mambo, right? V: Yes (He plays) M: Extraordinary! How many new things can be done with an old one! Nobody knows this tecnique, right? V: Yeah, it's mine. M: You can imitate a double bass V: The double bass is more evident in jazz, this is like a drum. M: Well, let's listen to some jazz. V: (plays jazz) M: It is very interesting, with these "horns" you can imitate the double bass. How do you do the transcript your songs? V: I don't write them down, I just play. M: I am very impressed, I hope the viewers of the show will do the same. Teach this method to the world! V: do you think so? M: It's an invention! Thanks for being here!
M: “...nobody knows this technique, right?” V: “Yeah, it’s mine.” Finally, somebody else for all the jerkwagons to hate because a guy named Roy Smeck was tapping on both guitar and ukulele way back in the 20s and 30s. I can hear them now: “Camardese didn’t invent tapping, Roy Smeck did!! Camardese sucks!!! *ROY SMECK RULES!!!* 😂😂😂
It's surpising that nobody said a word about the way he played "All Of Me", I've never seen something similar before, he played the walking line of the bass and the melody harmonized! What a genius!
Translation: Interviewer: show me some shit brother Italian Guy: *tapping* Interview: Damn dude you just invented like 30 fucking genres of rock. Italian Guy: shit dude Interviewer: show me some sweeps Italian guy: No sweeping is for prog fags Interviewer: Fuck you Dream Theater is my favorite Italian Guy: But it's 1965 Interviewer: oh lol Italian Guy: do you like slayer?
Eddie Van Halen never claimed to invent tapping in fact he has specifically said he didn't inventory he just popularized it. And made a bigger impact than anybody else did.
No in an interview he said he thinks he invented tapping bc he ain’t seen anybody do it before him. Also many many many many of his fans claimed he invented tapping.
@@zzodysseuszz that's not true. Watch any interview, he says he just figured it out by himself but he doesn't know if he invented, you're literally just lying
you sure? that sounded like shettt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sounds like me playing with my tongue.
Amazing, this guy's job was as radiologist at hospital in Rome, and he had the hobby to play guitar. He said he is a self taught musician and he always played like that... Pure talent, I hope he found the way to do some concerts and have some fun :-)
I never thought about strumming chords with my pinky while tapping out bass notes. This is absolute genius that I will try to incorporate into my playing/writing now.
The way that Eddie van Halen talked about tapping, he made it sound like he invented tapping: : "I think I got the idea of tapping watching (Page) do his 'Heartbreaker' solo back in 1971… He was doing a pull-off to an open string and I thought...I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around?"
Well I knew this a long time ago when I just stated playing blues,..however you cannot tell this to ...die-hard VH, fans cause you'll ruin their weekend...the only diff. w/ this guy is that he does not do jumping splits and runs all over the stage smiling at everyone.
i dont wanna say a stupid thing, but dio's grandma was italian and when he was a child he learned the "horns",sign that is called "corni", used in italy to avoid misfortunes.
Are you really suggesting that RJD wasn't the first person in all of human history to stick 2 of his fingers up? I don't know man....... I'm pretty sure that everyone always walked around with balled up fists for the past 25,000 years, never thinking to unfold 2 of their fingers.
@Angel Messtanoffski it's an old simbol often used in Southern Italy (although now it's not as common as it used to be) and yes that's exactly the meaning. If you were to wish someone bad luck or you were trying to keep bad luck away from you, you'd do this gesture. The difference is that when you do that, the hand is directed either towards the ground or towards the person you're wishing bad luck to. While if you mean "rock" then you'll probably point it upwards, right?
Sorry to bother you all, but he wasn't the inventor of the "tapping". This tech already existed in the XVIth century, according to some scores for Spanish guitar. Also, Paulinho Nogueira (a famous brazilian composer) already used tapping in some of his compositions in the early 50's, inspired by the scores I just mentioned.
Carlos Bianchi Hello! I play contra bass and violone but I have some interest in this subject. I would love to look at some scores if you can cite a few. Thanks!
"This Italian guy" is doctor Vittorio Camardese, according to the first seconds. Also, he had played'like this for a ling time, more like since 1950 or so. He has a Wiki page, his first TV appearance tapping a guitar was in 1956.
Wadsmitter, that may be true, but Eddie had mentioned seeing Hendrix, page, Blackmore and others tap. He never mentions Hacket and may have never seen him tap. It's not like the internet was around back then. You would either need a reel to reel tape, see it on one of the 5 channels on television, that went blanc at midnight, at a movie theater or in concert. Eddie Van Halen never claimed to have invented tapping, he just took it to another level.
Ed never denied seeing others tap before him. Your boy Hacket claims to have invented tapping, which is bs. There are examples and reports of Hendrix, Page, Blackmore and others tapping in the 60's before him. Not to mention this fella in the vid.
Steve Hogsett Obviously Hackett was not the first to use the technique, maybe not even the first rock guitarist. However he was the first rock guitarist who was skilled enough with the technique to be able to make use of it in a compositional sense. Hackett was not a showboat about it at all, he mostly used the technique for harmonizing with the keyboards or adding a bit of color here and there.
Hackett was 15 in 1965, Vittorio Camardese, 36 years old here, developed this style way before 1965. "He evolved his musical style through teaching himself, and in amateur performances. But in 1956, he played on the RAI Italian television talent show Primo applauso, his first television appearance, in which he won first prize. The television programme Chitarra, amore mio featured him in 1965, and he was seen again in 1973 in the music-based talk show Speciale per voi."
as an italian i HAVE TO translate for you something: He's not even a pro musician. He's a doctor, a radiologist. At their time this tecnique was considered pretty alternative and pretty unique but everybody here, in Italy, the land of culture, almost everybody know that tapping was actually invented by flamenco players. We are not like americans, we're not arrogant enough to presume we invent every single shit we see for the 1st time. We are not stupid. Thanks for reading. Hugs.
Eddie never claimed to invent it. Even Les Paul tapped. But Eddie did take it to a level unheard of with harmonics, and a trek system that is HIS STYLE. He created one amazing style out of three ideas and revolutionized guitar forever. Great player here. But we’re talking apples and oranges.
He's totally right tapping has been around for hundreds of years in classical guitar...there are musical pieces to provide evidence you guys are just petty trolls that think they know what they're talking about
it was already popular in the guitar community from what I remember,thats the reason Eddie was doing it in the first place.Media and post generation guitar players give him credit for popularizing it
In a couple of different interviews Eddie Van Halen never said he did claim to invent it, however he did say that he had never seen anyone do it like he did previously, and he was right. He may not have invented it but he perfected it! Long live Edward Van Halen!
Nobody ever said that Ed "invented" tapping, just so you know. What he did was use it in ways that nobody else did, bringing into the mainstream. He made it *famous.*
Luca P No your the dumbass with a quick Google search you will find that guitar has been around for thousands of years. And before even the guitar there was the very similar lute that has scalloped frets making it easier to do that technique. Yet little is documented on the styles of lute playing so I don't believe they would have actually done that on the lute.
Eddie didnt invent it??? No shit!! Of course he didnt. Techniques like tapping or sweep picking were not invented recently. Theyve been around forever. Tapping has been used on guitars or string instruments, like violin, for centuries. And about sweep picking, Chet Atkins was using sweep picking with his amazing finger picking/thumbpick technique and hollow body guitar on clean sound 60 years ago.
This guy is right. Eddie never said that he invented tapping, he just popularized it in rock music. A lot of guys used various kinds of tapping before Eddie though.
west price And actually he wasn't even the first one to do it in rock, Guys like Frank Zappa and Steve Hackett did it way before with the pick, but as you say, he just made it popular.
Paganini wrote about four hours worth of solo guitar music. It's pretty conventional for its time-not nearly as virtuosic as the guitar specialists of his era like Giuliani or Legnani, e.g.-and none of it involves right-hand tapping. His truly virtuosic violin music that involves similar extended techniques, like left-hand pizzicato or ricochet bowing, isn't really comparable to tapping on a plucked instrument. All Paganini's music has been recorded and is easily obtained. If you really want to hear what the state of virtuoso guitar was like in Paganini's era, check out the 36 caprices of Luigi Legnani: extended left-hand only passages, artificial harmonics, rapid scales and arpeggios, etc.
"Who invented tapping? The history is unclear, but we do know the original shred master himself, Niccolo Paganini, used a similar technique by striking specific notes on the neck of his violin with his bow. One hundred and fifty years later, Steve Vai employed the tapping technique as we know it to play his famous interpretation of a Paganini lick on guitar." Writes Blaine Kaltman in an article in Guitar World in 2017.
For the longest time I thought that Steve Hackett invented finger tapping, which can be heard on 'Supper's Ready' on the 1972 'Foxtrot' album by Genesis.
al di là di tutto, siamo d'accordo che probabilmente nemmeno lui hai inventato la tecnica e sicuramente non è stato Eddie.. ma guardate l'eleganza di queste due persone, la pacatezza e la professionalità. Una televisione d'altri tempi, che arrivava nelle case degli italiani con grazie e cortesia, non con arroganza e ignoranza come adesso. Mi dispiace di non aver vissuto quegli anni.
Simply beyond Exceptional. Self taught Doctor tapping a classical guitar on live exceeding the skills of majority of professional guitar players. Damn.
on top of the millions of players who've probably done it before, Eddie van halen never said that he invented tapping, only some fan boys said it and other people just took it for fact. he himself never said that he invented it
He did not really have to say it....he just let himself become popular and known for that, among all the rock guitarist....., sort of like the master...Hendrix,... when he played behind the neck and with his teeth.others have done it ...but...people expected him to do it.
interesting interview, he had to get permission to leave work in Milan to appear on the show & he listens to music and transcribes it to the guitar... amazing stuff...
Jimmy Webster made recordings using two-handed tapping over a decade before this guy. He even wrote an instructional book on it titled 'Touch Method for Electric and Amplified Spanish Guitar', released in 1952.
Hes doing stuff math rock people are doing now, 60+ years before math rock even existed. I also love how he makes his guitar sound like an upright bass, that shit was fire.
+AtanasovPetar Tapping was just one of the tricks Eddie brought to rock guitar playing...and it was his most famous trick...simply nobody intersted in Rock music ever heard tapping before..so most guys thought Eddie invented it...but he obviously did not..and he never claimed that btw..
+Slears oh he sure did say that all the time even at a recent 2014 clinic/interview..its on here Eddie even said that because of tapping they had to invent Tabs and not just notes..love'em..one of the greats..not so much anymore..but even in old interviews listening to him talk he's a freaking air head..really starting to believe his own hype and how he planned everything..it was just experimenting because they couldn't afford good gear which we as musician have experienced got the idea from watching Jimmy Page in the Zep..Song Remains The Same Concerts when its in the Whole Lotta Love Jam out.. even Alex VH said when he first seen Eddie do it he told Eddie to turn his back to the bar crowd at that time so nobody could figure out what Eddie was doing..true story Eddie made it famous put it on the map..great for him..he did his thing and will always be one of the legends but without Roth in the beginning helping him write those classics or Hagar after.. there would be no VH....end of the day ya gotta have the SONGS and that's what will keep his and VH's legend alive forever look at the GREATEST GUITARIST OF ALL TIME MY HERO RANDY RHOADS without those classic songs..he would be still talked about and still the most times on any Guitar mag cover player..you can be this amazing guitarist but you will only go so far and eventually people will forget about you unless ya have the songs Zakk..{yes that's me withe the BLS Family and my 2nd hero Brother Zakk in the pic and the Crue} Dimebag Vai Hendrix Mick Mars {most underrated guitarist..just seen them my fave Band couple months ago..sound perfect} Ronnie Montrose {another underrated player..so many stole from his style} Robert Johnson just to name a few...and all the other greats.. and coming to a loud venue in your town and for your dirty lil'pervy ears soon to be another ME Niki B Lee remember that name..!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+AtanasovPetar Same with scalloped fretboards. People think that Malmsteen started it while Blackmore had scalopped necks in the 70s, and even some others had before. And it actualy started in medieval times if not before.
If I'm not mistaken, those were his words out of his mouth, that he was the first to finger tap. I could be wrong about that but I do remember back in the late 80's and early 90's a bunch of us young teenagers in West Virginia, that were first getting into rock and metal, heard about him saying that and even us hillbilly kids knew better than that back then. Lol. But I do remember it going around that he said he invented it. Can't remember where it was he supposedly said it or what interview it was or anything like that but definitely remember it being said he proclaimed he did invent it though.
+Mark Riley, You can't remember any specifics about what or where it was said, all you remember is that a bunch of hillbilly's repeated it like it was fact, at least a decade before Van Halen was famous. No yeah, that checks out, no way that's definitely complete bullshit started by the town drunk, circulating exclusively through West Virginia, the most well informed state in the US, hands down. I admire your level of honesty but seriously, look at what you wrote, you literally stripped away slivers of credibility with every statement, and it was already down to the bone.
He popularized tapping for sure. He didn't invent it though and the patterns he used were definitely not original... they were just arpeggios that composers had been using for 400 years prior to that
OutlawStarkiller everyone builds on each other, I'm sure the original arpeggios people were basing it on some other musician a little too. Ideas evolve like that. Point is Van Halen popularized it on electric and pretty much invented those patterns in modern rock music.
the only thing he did well was drilling the guitar body. specially to install a new bridge or pick guard. one day someone passed by while he was drilling, by hand, and told him "why don't you use this on your guitar?" he misunderstood and started using the power tool as a picking device.
FutureLine Roy yes! And he learned to put his guitar on fire on training drills at a spring company that he used to work on the 20's. They were actually learning how to put the fight out, but he kept throwing alcohol on the springs, that made a weird sound. He thought he might use that on stage, already thinking on his career even tough he didn't play the guitar at that time. After that he served for 30 years as a mechanical at the 27º platoon at the 123 section of the fat boys camp in Argentina, where he learned how to fix broken skates. Then he spent more 18 years as a technician at a local radio where he learned how to take long naps at work. Then after all that he started taking classes with leonardo di caprio and started an emo band, playing djent songs, mainly. After 20 years of this experience, he managed to gather his own band, this time playing rain stick on mambo songs. He spent another 35 years doing that. than moved to london where he kept a fish and chips place for about 12 years. Then he became a yoga teacher and went to Pakistan, where he lives until now.
"Tapping" is an old Flamenco guitar technique - which is where Eddie has admitted he got it from. He has never claimed to have invented it, that's a myth. The first real tapping was done by Paganini.
I think tapping was originally a trick that a lot of guitarists knew about, but didn't implement it in their own playing. It wouldn't fit in with most styles of playing. Think about Hendrix tapping... it would sound ridiculous! I mean, every guitarist knows hammer-ons and pull-offs, it doesn't take that much imagination to realize that you can do it with both hands. There are quite a few guitarists from the early 70's that would bend and then tap a note higher on the string . I'm pretty sure Ritchie Blackmore and Ace Frehley have some solos where they tap some sections. I know that Angus Young used to tap notes wildly with his pick in the 70's and popularized 1-handed tapping. So obviously, guys knew about it before Eddie. I think it comes down to the fact that EVH made tapping into a more musical thing for rock guitar, instead of a trick. Before that, it was mostly Jazz and Classical guitarists that could implement it in a musical way.
***** Like I said before, I don't think tapping would have fit Hendrix's style. I think it would sound ridiculous if Hendrix tapped. I think guitarists definitely knew about tapping back then, but didn't see it as anything more than a trick. Like Blackmore sweep picking in the late 60's, it was just a trick.
+Harold.not.the.Barrel Hendrix did actually tap notes at times , as did a number of people like Hackett and such Not in the same way Van Halen used it, full blown through an entire solo, but none the less he did implement it at times, So did Zappa. In time, Hendrix might have done it a lot more By '74" he may have been using tapping to a much larger degree. We will never know. Ah well
+ShortFingeredShreder +1 to you. I always have to roll my eyes when someone gets credit for inventing something because they popularized it. It's ALL OVER the history books. People have been eating peanuts since pre-history ... but you're meaning to tell me that George Washington Carver was the first one to figure out that you can mash it up and put it on shit? Hell no.... I guarantee you tapping has been "discovered" or "invented" time and time and time again.... I bet you some guy in India 1500 years ago was wailing some sick tapping out on a shitty sitar made out of a gourd or something... He just didn't reside in a time and place where the communication technology allowed him to gain widespread notoriety for doing so.
In 74 or 75 a guy showed me how to tap my bass twelve frets up from the fingered note. He learned it from a cellist. A few years ago I saw a method book for string bass from the 1930's that included slapping triplets!
Okay okay, guys! My point is that Eddie VH did not invent two handed tapping. But what he did with it and where he took it was epic. You know... Not unlike Grampy's fart artistry.
+Roelf Backus yesss :) and he says that he has had to request a special permit for question of educational issues and costumes ... because infact he is a radiologist ahah old time old time
I think it's safe to say tens of thousands of guitarists discovered this technique independently because that's what I did two days after grabbing my first acoustic before even knowing tapping existed.
Eddie Van Halen never actually claimed to invent tapping, besides he probably discovered the technique on his own anyway, so it was equally as creative
@@grahambird3112well no, thats not how it works! this guy done this and not many people would have seen this in the late 70s including van Halen. Van Halen perhaps 'invented' it not knowing it had been done and gave it to the masses. Now that is creative, not somebody claiming to rotate a wheel counter clockwise?
@@joebryant8500 yes Hackett done it and this probably influenced van halen, Idk. People say Brian May did it? No he didn't really. I love Brian May, he's in my top 3 guitarists but he didn't do tapping. In the video for bohemian rhapsody he looks like he's tapping and probably kind of is tapping but not really. In the song 'its late' he hammers on a few notes with his right hand but it's not really tapping.
2:22 - This has to be one of the first well documented cases of someone tapping on guitar. Yet, even this early this guy was exploring ways of making it work in context. The time stamp here shows him literally using it to create BOTH the solo guitar and creating a rhythm to follow with. I can't say I've seen people even NOW use tapping in such a way. It almost sounds like a horse galloping, very unique.
Great find!! Tapping goes way back, hundreds of years, though on the violin. Paganini struck the string with a bouncing bow. You can find musicians playing his pieces on youtube. I wouldn't get all caught up about who invented what on guitar. Everyone bounces off everyone else. If you want to try and claim originality on guitar good luck. Most likely, every pleasant sounding lick has been utilized. The trick is in choices. If I hear jazz I fall asleep. If I hear rock I pump my fists. If I hear classical I meditate, and so on... Guitar players nowadays seem more obsessed about creating chirps and whistles than music. Just play and have fun. That's the point of tapping. It dazzles. It's not meant to be a profound statement of one's soul. When Eddie has fun on stage that's when he is at his best. When he gets cornered about "Who's the fastest" he does what any great guitar player does...laugh it off. I dare anyone to try and keep up an attitude about how fast they can play over someone else. You'll be drinking hard liquor within a year, snorting coke with 3 years and in rehab in 5 years. Remember, tapping is there because it is fun to do, not because it is some sort of weapon of mass destruction. I watch 5 year old kids from Korea who seem to know more about playing than I do at 45. I don't think they would come up to me and say," You should just quit." No, they would smile and probably let me play rhythm while they rip through their amazing solos. Then they would let me do the same. That's what it's all about folks... FUN. If you find some sort of satisfaction out of maintaining a superiority complex then I do wish you well. Those individuals usually end up quitting anyway. No loss to mankind but a hell of a loss to your right to happiness. That in itself is worth something. As a musician all you should care about is making everyone smile...nothing more. And yes, that includes you too... :)
David, thank you for bringing sense through your words. Your post is spot on and exactly how I feel about this topic. People really need to have much more fun and concentrate on entertaining rather than competing...!
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Nice find my friend... this is really cool to see. I wonder that guy's name, it sounds like he said something like "Victorio" or "Vittorio". I always figured someone had to have figured it out before Van Halen's days, and maybe even before this Italian dude.
Eddie Van Halen wasn't even the first guitarist in rock to use it. STEVE HACKETT from Genesis used it prominently in 1972 in "Supper's Ready" and even more so in 1973 in "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight".
twocsies Yea, but propably not pics of him tapping tho. It is only in the written sources. Church at one time even accused him of signing a pact with the devil because he played so well lol.
For the record, Paganini was a great guitar player as well. I've read somewhere that he was said to produce "unprecedented effects" with the guitar, so probably tapping was one of them. I've found it on Google, this was written by french composer Hector Berlioz: "Paganini loved incomparably music, which was an irrepressible need for him. When violin strained him too much, he'd extract from his folder a collection of duets written by him for violin and guitar, and he played the guitar from which he obtained unprecedented effects."
Niccolo Paganini employed a tapping technique for violin compositions that predates this by centuries. Variations on stringed instrument tapping has existed in many cultures.
Well, percussion tapping has been around since even older times, but it has rarely been implemented in rock since Eddie Van Halen made it popular (only in rock though). Also bass tapping in jazz has been a thing since way back in the day.
Totally incorrect. Tapping has been used for a very very long time, and we cannot know the exact origin of the technique. For example, classical guitarist and violinist Niccolò Paganini used tapping, or even George Van Eps (in the 50s) long before this guy here.
MikeTheUnseen Well said. It is unbelievably ignorant to suggest that tapping was invented anywhere near modern times. Music has existed for about as long as we have, people experiment and research the hell out of everything they discover.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Yep, it probably was a completely unknown peasant in medieval Europe that was hammering like a champ on his lute. He is not world famous or worshipped by millions for his mastery but I'm sure he had plenty of girlfriends!
best reply. Of course. It’s extremely dumb and ignorant trying to discover/check/decide who “invented” tapping. We shouldn’t even argue about it. Is like talking about who invented percussions or whistling. It has just being happening for a LONG time in various instruments and genres, Creativity and innovation has always being part of human nature
「Titanium Overdrive」 ふわふわ少年 no we don't, kid. The tittle of the video and the word used in the "debate" is INVENTED and my point remains. Tapping has been used for centuries in different instruments without no way to know the real origin
rawdawg3234 nope, tapping on the guitar was discovered. obviously tapping existed from the second the guitar was invented, but nobody DISCOVERED it until somebody did it...
Ha ha. What the hell are you talking about man? Creating a technique of any kind. Wether it be martial arts or painting or whatever takes development and thought and practice. Think about it for a second.
![Vittorio Camardese [Tapping Style] - Look Ma, Two Hands! (probably)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2152a4ioGEk/mqdefault.jpg)
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His name is Guitario Tappini
I see what you did there
+Garrett Hale no you didn't
+Garrett Hale grammar
+ClassicVideos80s Dude you had me for a little bit there, way too funny!
+ClassicVideos80s is his brother Drumero Pounderini?
This is the most modest, unassuming and very talented guitar player. A radiologist who taught himself to play like that... respect!!
Guitar is a 500+ years old instrument. It is safe to assume many unknown guitarists have tried finger tapping before.
Agreed
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Les paul was 500 years old ?
Thats what she said
@@purpel6034 The guitar is over 3300 years old. The first electric guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, not Les Paul.
The first 45 seconds he is asking him what he does for wok where he lives and stuff like that. Then he ask him to show how he plays guitar since "he heard" that he plays it in a versy strange way. The guitar player says that he is self teached and he always played that way. Then the demo starts. At 1:25 he says he is going to play a mambo. At the end he asks him if he knows anybody else that plays that way and he says he doesnt know anybody else that plays that way and that it is his personal tecnique. Then interviewr says that this tecnique gives a feel like a double bass and the guitar player says that its true and on the guitar it sounds more percussive. So he proceed to play a jazzy song. The video ends with the interviwer saying "Maybe one day you will teach this to all the world" and the guitar players reply "Do you think? I dont know I think its too much for me". End of the story
thanks! what did he do for a living?
He said he is a radiologist (an x-ray operator)
thanks for the trouble
arzach95 thanks!
That makes sense... all that radiation gave him super hero guitar powers :)
He throws inversions left and right while playing very nice bass line, that for me is the true genius here.
IDigFusion Killer lick for sure, never seen that done this way
IDigFusion u
Don't forget the percussive effects he's throwing in there.
he is a LAME DUCK
..and when not a single person applauds, he looks at the crowd and says, "Your kids are gonna love it"
Heh. Good one.
brando92711 My man!
stephenwolf Ohhh I almost took the bait LOL
***** nah dude, it was Teen Wolf.
Marty McFly.. my man
Here is the translation:
M: Dr. Vittorio Camardese!
V: Good evening
M: Thank you for coming
V: Thanks to you for inviting me
M: You travel a lot, huh?
V: The guitar is not mine, they lent it to me.
M: Haha, you don't travel?
V: I can't.. because..
M: Sit down
V: because I work in hospital and I am not allowed to do it
M: Where do you work?
V: In San Filippo hospital
M: In Rome?
V: Yes, in Rome
M: Did you have to ask for a special permit to come here?
V: Yes, I had to ask my supervisor
M: Who is he?
V: He's Dr. Giacobini
M: Is it considered undignified for a doctor to play the guitar?
V: No, but it's a matter of education..
M: You're a radiologist, right?
V: Yes
M: I have been told that you have a particular way of playing guitar
V: Yeah that's right
M: A particular technique, eh?
V: Well yes, I've always played this way
M: Did you learn on your own?
V: Yes
M: You don't know music?
V: Ehm, no.
M: Let'see!
V: See, this is the technique. I don't pinch the string, but I beat it.
M: Let's listen to a song. It's a mambo, right?
V: Yes (He plays)
M: Extraordinary! How many new things can be done with an old one!
Nobody knows this tecnique, right?
V: Yeah, it's mine.
M: You can imitate a double bass
V: The double bass is more evident in jazz, this is like a drum.
M: Well, let's listen to some jazz.
V: (plays jazz)
M: It is very interesting, with these "horns" you can imitate the double bass.
How do you do the transcript your songs?
V: I don't write them down, I just play.
M: I am very impressed, I hope the viewers of the show will do the same.
Teach this method to the world!
V: do you think so?
M: It's an invention! Thanks for being here!
My favorite part ... I don't write them down I just play .Lol
Somebody Give Me A Doctor! Somebody give me Dr Camardese.
Thanks for the translation Pisano!
M: “...nobody knows this technique, right?”
V: “Yeah, it’s mine.”
Finally, somebody else for all the jerkwagons to hate because a guy named Roy Smeck was tapping on both guitar and ukulele way back in the 20s and 30s. I can hear them now:
“Camardese didn’t invent tapping, Roy Smeck did!! Camardese sucks!!! *ROY SMECK RULES!!!*
😂😂😂
It's the do you think so for me 😣
@@jamesthe-doctor8981 yes right roy smeck did tapping ukulele
He also invented the devil horn sign 3:54
Berly Tannyono Putra hahahahaha lol
Berly Tannyono Putra haaha lmao
Berly Tannyono Putra Yeah! Suck it Dio! (just kidding god rest your soul)
The horns are an old sign against evil in Italy, been going centuries.
Monolith Preacher I thought it is a bad thing to show it to somebody, like you want to jinx somebody
It's surpising that nobody said a word about the way he played "All Of Me", I've never seen something similar before, he played the walking line of the bass and the melody harmonized! What a genius!
Alvaro Lopez Guitar What was the song he covered?
Alvaro Lopez Guitar ... Italians do it better!!! Eh eh eh...
I knew it was all of me!
Translation:
Interviewer: show me some shit brother
Italian Guy: *tapping*
Interview: Damn dude you just invented like 30 fucking genres of rock.
Italian Guy: shit dude
Interviewer: show me some sweeps
Italian guy: No sweeping is for prog fags
Interviewer: Fuck you Dream Theater is my favorite
Italian Guy: But it's 1965
Interviewer: oh lol
Italian Guy: do you like slayer?
lmfao!!!! can't stop laughing u r hysterical!
+TDG GAMING LMAO! That is some good stuff' Ha-Ha!
this is even funnier because i'm italian
+TDG GAMING lol very funny
+alfio orlando who is this? Can't find name anywhere.
Eddie van halen didn't ever claim to invent tapping, he just made it popular.
Yeah he even says it in an interview that he doesn’t know if he invented it. He just figured it out himself
@@ascentiall yep👍
Pigga - I think he got it from Steve Hackett.
yeah right he didn't claimed that...this channel force people to believe that Eddie claimed that he invented the tapping...what an asshole!!!
@@guardiankitt3848 R.I.P we will miss him😭😭😭
Eddie Van Halen never claimed to invent tapping in fact he has specifically said he didn't inventory he just popularized it. And made a bigger impact than anybody else did.
Chris Scarbrough oh definitely, and because of Eddie many kids were inspired to take guitar lessons
Chris , perfectly said my friend !!
No in an interview he said he thinks he invented tapping bc he ain’t seen anybody do it before him.
Also many many many many of his fans claimed he invented tapping.
@@zzodysseuszz that's not true.
Watch any interview, he says he just figured it out by himself but he doesn't know if he invented, you're literally just lying
you sure? that sounded like shettt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sounds like me playing with my tongue.
Amazing, this guy's job was as radiologist at hospital in Rome, and he had the hobby to play guitar. He said he is a self taught musician and he always played like that...
Pure talent, I hope he found the way to do some concerts and have some fun :-)
Who taught you Italian?
Aspire7
My teacher, when I was 6 at school, and my parents too. It's pretty common if you are born in Italy.
=D davera
the other was a great/great theatre 's actor and he was a young refugee during and after World War II. He 's name is Arnaldo Foa.
Come mai nessuno parla della identitá di quest´uomo. Chi é? Cóme si chiama? É veramente straordinario!
His name was Vittorio Camardese, he was from Potenza (Italy)
This video should simply be titled something like " Vittorio Camardese, amazing Italian acoustic guitarist"
Sara Grauso i thought his name was Guitarra Tappini
Sara Grauso grande
1:25
"Umm... math rock"
'Math rock'
"Math rock, si"
And there's your history lesson for today kids
Mambo
nope he said “mambo” not math rock, the genre didn’t even existed in 1965
He said "mambo" lol xdd
Tommaso Fu a That’s the joke
Boy, you're not too bright are you?
I never thought about strumming chords with my pinky while tapping out bass notes. This is absolute genius that I will try to incorporate into my playing/writing now.
That's basically classical in a nutshell.
this guy knows.
like we do give a fuck
Jet fuel can't melt steel memes that's a bold name my friend, props.
sometimes the best way is to teach yourself like he did. People come up with new ways of doing things this way
who said van halen invented tapping 😂
Window companies
The way that Eddie van Halen talked about tapping, he made it sound like he invented tapping: : "I think I got the idea of tapping watching (Page) do his 'Heartbreaker' solo back in 1971… He was doing a pull-off to an open string and I thought...I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around?"
+twocsies just because its not original doesnt mean he didnt think of it himself.
Well I knew this a long time ago when I just stated playing blues,..however you cannot tell this to ...die-hard VH, fans cause you'll ruin their weekend...the only diff. w/ this guy is that he does not do jumping splits and runs all over the stage smiling at everyone.
Jimmy Page did a pull off to an open string. That is not tapping. So he did not do it first.
eddie van halen never claimed to invent it, he stated in an interview that he figured it out and made his own technique to it.
「Stand User」: Vittorio Camardese
「Stand Name」: Guitario Tappini
The last time i heard an italian people tap he told me to slap like
Filbert hhahahahaha lmfao I get it lmfao
Filbert davie405
Approved
Holy words
Ah... men of culture always cross paths
3:53 And apparently Dio didn't invent the horns hand gesture either! Shocked! xP
He didn't it began with John Lennon.
Dio's hand gesture was an old Catholic thing to ward off evil.
I heard it was old Hindu not catholic thing.
i dont wanna say a stupid thing, but dio's grandma was italian and when he was a child he learned the "horns",sign that is called "corni", used in italy to avoid misfortunes.
Are you really suggesting that RJD wasn't the first person in all of human history to stick 2 of his fingers up? I don't know man....... I'm pretty sure that everyone always walked around with balled up fists for the past 25,000 years, never thinking to unfold 2 of their fingers.
That jazzy piece at the end was awesome, Lower strings totally sounded upright bass.
Sounds like "All Of Me".
Jeff H Remind me to spongebob
It is Gypsy Swing in the style of Django:)
I made a video called "Santana did not invent the guitar"
Best possible response to this video.
nope, chuck berry did
nope charlie christian did
elecktrick9s no, Chuck Norris did.
chuck is awesome
His name is Vittorio Camardese, at that time a doctor radiologist
thanks. he's amazing !😀🐂💨
Gratzi!😎
I thought it was Guitario tappini
@@user-jc8yw8nl3y he is
@@user-jc8yw8nl3y a.k.a.
4:36 *Even invented the Sign of the Horns! And before the still Italian Ronnie J. DIO!!*
@Angel Messtanoffski it's an old simbol often used in Southern Italy (although now it's not as common as it used to be) and yes that's exactly the meaning. If you were to wish someone bad luck or you were trying to keep bad luck away from you, you'd do this gesture. The difference is that when you do that, the hand is directed either towards the ground or towards the person you're wishing bad luck to. While if you mean "rock" then you'll probably point it upwards, right?
The horns are a signal to chase away the evil eye or as they call it in the old country “occhio malvagio.”
@@AllieOk exactly. 👏🇮🇹👏
Everyone is discussing about the title when we should just claim: OMG, the guy is amazing!
Uhhmazing is right!
So was EVH
Wow. What luscious sounds! ❤
Very cool music by a very talented musician.
LOL, I read it as a "...very retarded musician"
aaron rojas and he's saying he's actually a doctor!
I wish my Doctor played the Guitar like that!
It clearly comes from an ancient tapping technique.
I wish my doctor did my surgery as well as that man plays guitar!!
Yo at 3:52 that was actually fire! haven't seen anyone do a tapping walking bass lmao!
What the fuck do you mean “actually fire”???? As if everything before it was bad? Gtfo with ur egotistical ass
@@xanorexorcist Dude.. chill... he was just saying it was good lol
fucking yeah mate. this made my fucking head explode. AND PLAYED comping chords while 🤟🏼ing his way through that bassline lol
Haha wow that was amazing and it sounded good too! Check out Victor Wooten! It's bass, but he taps like nobody's business.
Check out Stanley Jordan
This guy not only invent tapping but more than that he's adding some percussion to the song!! Man this is really amazing!
It sounds like a bass is also playing
Sorry to bother you all, but he wasn't the inventor of the "tapping".
This tech already existed in the XVIth century, according to some scores for Spanish guitar. Also, Paulinho Nogueira (a famous brazilian composer) already used tapping in some of his compositions in the early 50's, inspired by the scores I just mentioned.
Carlos Bianchi Hello!
I play contra bass and violone but I have some interest in this subject.
I would love to look at some scores if you can cite a few.
Thanks!
Sean Woodburn I play Contra. Contra 2 sucked
And I scrolled through the comments for a Contra pun
I guess that would be an easier to feel superior than actually knowing something.
Blasphemy, Nogueira never tapps!
is he the father of mathrock
André Nathaniel lmao, fuck off with mathrock
"This Italian guy" is doctor Vittorio Camardese, according to the first seconds. Also, he had played'like this for a ling time, more like since 1950 or so. He has a Wiki page, his first TV appearance tapping a guitar was in 1956.
Brian may did it before Van Halen too, though clearly this guy was a pretty early example if not first
Eddie admitted he saw ace frehley do it with a pick
Wadsmitter, that may be true, but Eddie had mentioned seeing Hendrix, page, Blackmore and others tap. He never mentions Hacket and may have never seen him tap. It's not like the internet was around back then. You would either need a reel to reel tape, see it on one of the 5 channels on television, that went blanc at midnight, at a movie theater or in concert.
Eddie Van Halen never claimed to have invented tapping, he just took it to another level.
Ed never denied seeing others tap before him. Your boy Hacket claims to have invented tapping, which is bs. There are examples and reports of Hendrix, Page, Blackmore and others tapping in the 60's before him. Not to mention this fella in the vid.
Steve Hogsett Obviously Hackett was not the first to use the technique, maybe not even the first rock guitarist. However he was the first rock guitarist who was skilled enough with the technique to be able to make use of it in a compositional sense. Hackett was not a showboat about it at all, he mostly used the technique for harmonizing with the keyboards or adding a bit of color here and there.
Hackett was 15 in 1965, Vittorio Camardese, 36 years old here, developed this style way before 1965.
"He evolved his musical style through teaching himself, and in amateur performances. But in 1956, he played on the RAI Italian television talent show Primo applauso, his first television appearance, in which he won first prize. The television programme Chitarra, amore mio featured him in 1965, and he was seen again in 1973 in the music-based talk show Speciale per voi."
as an italian i HAVE TO translate for you something:
He's not even a pro musician. He's a doctor, a radiologist. At their time this tecnique was considered pretty alternative and pretty unique but everybody here, in Italy, the land of culture, almost everybody know that tapping was actually invented by flamenco players. We are not like americans, we're not arrogant enough to presume we invent every single shit we see for the 1st time. We are not stupid. Thanks for reading. Hugs.
LOL Brilliant! :) ...
la pasta di denti
ma la pizza non ce la tocca nessuno!
But you are arrogant enough to generalize 300 million people?
dick
Nobody ever said Van Halen invented tapping. He did make it popular and main stream though.
Eddie never claimed to invent it. Even Les Paul tapped. But Eddie did take it to a level unheard of with harmonics, and a trek system that is HIS STYLE. He created one amazing style out of three ideas and revolutionized guitar forever.
Great player here. But we’re talking apples and oranges.
Wikipedia has quite a good history of tapping, titled "Tapping". It's been around for centuries.
Wow, I didn't know Wikipedia was around that long.
look at the history of wikipedia on wikipedia, it'll clearly tell you "we've been around for centuries."
This is true because it's Wikipedia, which is actually more credible than research done at Cambridge
He's totally right tapping has been around for hundreds of years in classical guitar...there are musical pieces to provide evidence you guys are just petty trolls that think they know what they're talking about
Sam Winn I was just busting his balls lol. You can't come into an argument with a source that can be edited by anyone who knows how to use a computer.
An old blues guy once told me that the best guitar players are people you never heard of...case in point!
So true man. I bet there is bedroom shredders out there who could give Guthrie or loomis a run for their money
check candyrat records it'll blow your mind
Those guitarist are not Illuminati sellouts!
of course EVH didn't invent it, he just POPULARIZED it
it was already popular in the guitar community from what I remember,thats the reason Eddie was doing it in the first place.Media and post generation guitar players give him credit for popularizing it
In a couple of different interviews Eddie Van Halen never said he did claim to invent it, however he did say that he had never seen anyone do it like he did previously, and he was right. He may not have invented it but he perfected it! Long live Edward Van Halen!
I honor this comment ....magic is the musician that knows its fun to stump some who didnt know what he was doing to get that sound
No. Actually, he's said more than once that he figured it out after seeing Jimmy Page live playing Heartbreaker.
@@Texturas75 yep
Nobody ever said that Ed "invented" tapping, just so you know.
What he did was use it in ways that nobody else did, bringing into the mainstream. He made it *famous.*
Rhoads was before Eddie and would have surpassed him more than he already was doing
as much as I love Rhandy, he was not famous yet when Van Halen got big
steve hacket
>Nobody ever said that Ed "invented" tapping,
there's a hundred metal documentaries that did
It's called "hammering" and flamenco guitarists have been doing it for a thousand years.
Since the year 1016, they have been doing it
yup awesome style.
depends on the year you are living
Scott Adler yea cuz the guitar DEFINITELY has been around that long.... dumbass.
Luca P No your the dumbass with a quick Google search you will find that guitar has been around for thousands of years. And before even the guitar there was the very similar lute that has scalloped frets making it easier to do that technique. Yet little is documented on the styles of lute playing so I don't believe they would have actually done that on the lute.
Eddie didnt invent it??? No shit!!
Of course he didnt. Techniques like tapping or sweep picking were not invented recently. Theyve been around forever.
Tapping has been used on guitars or string instruments, like violin, for centuries.
And about sweep picking, Chet Atkins was using sweep picking with his amazing finger picking/thumbpick technique and hollow body guitar on clean sound 60 years ago.
This guy is right. Eddie never said that he invented tapping, he just popularized it in rock music. A lot of guys used various kinds of tapping before Eddie though.
west price And actually he wasn't even the first one to do it in rock, Guys like Frank Zappa and Steve Hackett did it way before with the pick, but as you say, he just made it popular.
Elías Baez Tabe Brian May, Harvey Mandel, and Allan Holdsworth were doing it before Eddie as well.
Exactly !!! George Benson, Carlos Santana, and the all time tapping master Stanley Jordan too
Tapping goes back to Paganini, People.
Props to this Italian, but another Italian used it in the 1800s, a composer/violinist by the name of Niccolo Paganini.
What piece? I've not listened to much of his guitar work
Came to say this. Love me some Paganini.
@@mechwarrior5727 1st Caprice is my favorite example. 24th is very popular and much easier to start with.
Paganini wrote about four hours worth of solo guitar music. It's pretty conventional for its time-not nearly as virtuosic as the guitar specialists of his era like Giuliani or Legnani, e.g.-and none of it involves right-hand tapping. His truly virtuosic violin music that involves similar extended techniques, like left-hand pizzicato or ricochet bowing, isn't really comparable to tapping on a plucked instrument. All Paganini's music has been recorded and is easily obtained.
If you really want to hear what the state of virtuoso guitar was like in Paganini's era, check out the 36 caprices of Luigi Legnani: extended left-hand only passages, artificial harmonics, rapid scales and arpeggios, etc.
"Who invented tapping? The history is unclear, but we do know the original shred master himself, Niccolo Paganini, used a similar technique by striking specific notes on the neck of his violin with his bow. One hundred and fifty years later, Steve Vai employed the tapping technique as we know it to play his famous interpretation of a Paganini lick on guitar." Writes Blaine Kaltman in an article in Guitar World in 2017.
For the longest time I thought that Steve Hackett invented finger tapping, which can be heard on 'Supper's Ready' on the 1972 'Foxtrot' album by Genesis.
Steve plays tapping before that, on "The Musical Box" in 1971, the guitar solo part , and later on also on "Dancing with the moonlit knight" in 1973
Yup that album as well. Just the first time I heard Steve fingertap was on 'Supper's Ready' :-)
EASY TO LEARN Guitar Lessons he was the first one at recording the tapping technique on Nursery Crime in 1971
EASY TO LEARN Guitar Lessons Love your channel bro, you helped me in the begging of my guitar journey
Guitar Lessons - Rock, Blues and Metal Rory Gallagher did it at Isle of Wight 69 I think but they’ve been tapping on string instruments for centuries
al di là di tutto, siamo d'accordo che probabilmente nemmeno lui hai inventato la tecnica e sicuramente non è stato Eddie.. ma guardate l'eleganza di queste due persone, la pacatezza e la professionalità. Una televisione d'altri tempi, che arrivava nelle case degli italiani con grazie e cortesia, non con arroganza e ignoranza come adesso. Mi dispiace di non aver vissuto quegli anni.
Luca Agazzi e ora c'è il grande fratello e l'isola dei famosi
Parole vere Luca, concordo
That's easy for you to say.
@@johnnyirish801 why?
@@deliverytraining6646 Because I can't read it. 😂😂😂
Doctor Vittorio Camaltese. Radiologist. Amazing guitar. Rome 1965.
Correction: Vittorio Camardese.
Grazie.
Simply beyond Exceptional. Self taught Doctor tapping a classical guitar on live exceeding the skills of majority of professional guitar players. Damn.
This guy's the new buckethead.
josh bolin I'd say bucketheads grandfather
or maybe it is buckethead 😂
josh bolin you mean he's the old buckethead
buckethead's grandfather
my grandfather's buckethead's mother
Do you not know how old the guitar is? There's probably been hundreds of thousands of people that tapped before the electric guitar was invented.
this is history on film though. sick!
on top of the millions of players who've probably done it before, Eddie van halen never said that he invented tapping, only some fan boys said it and other people just took it for fact. he himself never said that he invented it
He did not really have to say it....he just let himself become popular and known for that, among all the rock guitarist....., sort of like the master...Hendrix,... when he played behind the neck and with his teeth.others have done it ...but...people expected him to do it.
Yeah I thought that to…
about 4 min in he does a walking bass line that just kicks ass!
interesting interview, he had to get permission to leave work in Milan to appear on the show & he listens to music and transcribes it to the guitar... amazing stuff...
***** yep
***** his name is Vittorio Camardese (he was a doctor), died in 2010.
a real guitar-pioneer
you.. yes you. you are the fucking man. @@oznerolfaust i scrolled down comments just to find out this lad's name. and you have said it. thank you
Jimmy Webster made recordings using two-handed tapping over a decade before this guy. He even wrote an instructional book on it titled 'Touch Method for Electric and Amplified Spanish Guitar', released in 1952.
Everyone knows Eddie van Halen didn't invent the tapping technique even Steve Hackett was doing it before him they just popularised it.
lawrence rodriguez
And Frank Zappa did it in 1975 so 4 years before Van Halen
Jimmy Page also did in 1969
exactly steve hacked
van halen is nice guitar player but JASON BECKER with david lee roth proyect is amazing
Please don't compare an amateur guitarist like Jimmy Hendrix to Eddie....Technique is night and day...
that italian guy is metal as fuck
Let's all agree that italian is a fucking awesome language!
thanks!!
You guys stole pasta from the Chinese. It ain't your creation.Give it back.
Okay, but still don't speak, read, nor write it.
Why are you guys arguing about pasta
When the frenchmen give us back La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), Nizza (Nice) and la Corsica, we'll give pasta back to the chinese!!!!!!!
Hes doing stuff math rock people are doing now, 60+ years before math rock even existed. I also love how he makes his guitar sound like an upright bass, that shit was fire.
mamma mia, la televisione era così diversa
ilsognoastratto magari ci fossero ancora programmi del genere...
Sei uno polentoni fascisti.
ilsognoastratto.........le persone erano diverse. Educazione e rispetto allora erano ancora un valore.
Everybody knows Van Halen didn't invent it.
Actually, I would say most people don't know.
yes he did
MULLY no but he got it down to a science!
MULLY we all know Elvis didn't rock n roll but he became the King!
MULLY or did he time travel and became Italian
I don't think anyone thought Van Halen invented it.
In 1977, Eddie (RIP) watched this video in You Tube and copyed the way to tappin.
Rob Scallions Grandfather
scallions?
+Antonio Strignano lol
Nah, i think its more like Jared Dinies
bob chapmen
+Alonso Mancini Nah, Dines is shit next to Rob
Tapping was used by classical guitarists more than 100 years ago. Who said EVH invented tapping? He just did it popular.
Nice
+AtanasovPetar Tapping was just one of the tricks Eddie brought to rock guitar playing...and it was his most famous trick...simply nobody intersted in Rock music ever heard tapping before..so most guys thought Eddie invented it...but he obviously did not..and he never claimed that btw..
+Slears oh he sure did say that all the time even at a recent 2014 clinic/interview..its on here Eddie even said that because of tapping they had to invent Tabs and not just notes..love'em..one of the greats..not so much anymore..but even in old interviews listening to him talk he's a freaking air head..really starting to believe his own hype and how he planned everything..it was just experimenting because they couldn't afford good gear
which we as musician have experienced
got the idea from watching Jimmy Page in the Zep..Song Remains The Same Concerts
when its in the Whole Lotta Love Jam out..
even Alex VH said when he first seen Eddie do it he told Eddie to turn his back to the bar crowd at that time so nobody could figure out what Eddie was doing..true story
Eddie made it famous put it on the map..great for him..he did his thing and will always be one of the legends
but without Roth in the beginning helping him write those classics or Hagar after..
there would be no VH....end of the day ya gotta have the SONGS and that's what will keep his and VH's legend alive forever
look at the GREATEST GUITARIST OF ALL TIME MY HERO RANDY RHOADS
without those classic songs..he would be still talked about and still the most times on any Guitar mag cover
player..you can be this amazing guitarist but you will only go so far and eventually people will forget about you
unless ya have the songs
Zakk..{yes that's me withe the BLS Family and my 2nd hero Brother Zakk in the pic and the Crue}
Dimebag
Vai
Hendrix
Mick Mars {most underrated guitarist..just seen them my fave Band couple months ago..sound perfect}
Ronnie Montrose {another underrated player..so many stole from his style}
Robert Johnson
just to name a few...and all the other greats..
and coming to a loud venue in your town and for your dirty lil'pervy ears soon to be another
ME
Niki B Lee
remember that name..!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+AtanasovPetar
Same with scalloped fretboards. People think that Malmsteen started it while Blackmore had scalopped necks in the 70s, and even some others had before. And it actualy started in medieval times if not before.
Ray Thunder John Mclaughlin scalloped his necks in the mid 60's.
This is just amazing...very good playing....and considering this is an acoustic guitar..I'm speechless
This level of twohanded tappning, walking bassline and overall knowledge is amazing by todays standards! True legend!
EVH NEVER claimed to invent tapping.
Ted Davis yes he only popularized it
+Jared Dela Torre exactly
If I'm not mistaken, those were his words out of his mouth, that he was the first to finger tap. I could be wrong about that but I do remember back in the late 80's and early 90's a bunch of us young teenagers in West Virginia, that were first getting into rock and metal, heard about him saying that and even us hillbilly kids knew better than that back then. Lol. But I do remember it going around that he said he invented it. Can't remember where it was he supposedly said it or what interview it was or anything like that but definitely remember it being said he proclaimed he did invent it though.
Link?
+Mark Riley, You can't remember any specifics about what or where it was said, all you remember is that a bunch of hillbilly's repeated it like it was fact, at least a decade before Van Halen was famous. No yeah, that checks out, no way that's definitely complete bullshit started by the town drunk, circulating exclusively through West Virginia, the most well informed state in the US, hands down. I admire your level of honesty but seriously, look at what you wrote, you literally stripped away slivers of credibility with every statement, and it was already down to the bone.
I figured out tapping before I even knew what it was.
Same lol
Same
Ill fuck you up in smash bros.
+slatan420 You know how to netplay melee?
Through a gamecube?! Nah man I dont. which makes me think that youre better. But i would put a good fight up.
Who ever said Van Halen invented tapping?
It's an unspoken belief among VH fans.
He did invent tapping on electric guitar and certainly the patterns he used were original... nothing like flamenco or this guy.
He popularised it tapping on an electric, he didn't invent it. He's publicly credited Steve Hackett of Genesis with introducing him to it.
He popularized tapping for sure. He didn't invent it though and the patterns he used were definitely not original... they were just arpeggios that composers had been using for 400 years prior to that
OutlawStarkiller everyone builds on each other, I'm sure the original arpeggios people were basing it on some other musician a little too. Ideas evolve like that. Point is Van Halen popularized it on electric and pretty much invented those patterns in modern rock music.
He elaborated and took it seriouly way further than it ever had been explored before ! thx EVH
No one ever said he did. He just took it to the next 10 levels.
11.
the only thing he did well was drilling the guitar body. specially to install a new bridge or pick guard. one day someone passed by while he was drilling, by hand, and told him "why don't you use this on your guitar?" he misunderstood and started using the power tool as a picking device.
pplobr
You are just rambling nonsense. And Jimy Hendriks got his playing with his teeth from his dentist.
FutureLine Roy yes! And he learned to put his guitar on fire on training drills at a spring company that he used to work on the 20's. They were actually learning how to put the fight out, but he kept throwing alcohol on the springs, that made a weird sound. He thought he might use that on stage, already thinking on his career even tough he didn't play the guitar at that time. After that he served for 30 years as a mechanical at the 27º platoon at the 123 section of the fat boys camp in Argentina, where he learned how to fix broken skates.
Then he spent more 18 years as a technician at a local radio where he learned how to take long naps at work. Then after all that he started taking classes with leonardo di caprio and started an emo band, playing djent songs, mainly. After 20 years of this experience, he managed to gather his own band, this time playing rain stick on mambo songs. He spent another 35 years doing that. than moved to london where he kept a fish and chips place for about 12 years. Then he became a yoga teacher and went to Pakistan, where he lives until now.
Yes. OK
"Tapping" is an old Flamenco guitar technique - which is where Eddie has admitted he got it from. He has never claimed to have invented it, that's a myth.
The first real tapping was done by Paganini.
i could have made a living being this guys forehead shiner
Are you saying you want to give this guy head?
No.... That would have been foreskin shiner... lol
so i take it you've never seen the simpsons episode with the shine-o ball-o
Guilty as charged...
I was his forehead shiner
RIP Eddie. Thank you for popularizing some incredible techniques and sounds.
I think tapping was originally a trick that a lot of guitarists knew about, but didn't implement it in their own playing. It wouldn't fit in with most styles of playing. Think about Hendrix tapping... it would sound ridiculous! I mean, every guitarist knows hammer-ons and pull-offs, it doesn't take that much imagination to realize that you can do it with both hands. There are quite a few guitarists from the early 70's that would bend and then tap a note higher on the string . I'm pretty sure Ritchie Blackmore and Ace Frehley have some solos where they tap some sections. I know that Angus Young used to tap notes wildly with his pick in the 70's and popularized 1-handed tapping. So obviously, guys knew about it before Eddie.
I think it comes down to the fact that EVH made tapping into a more musical thing for rock guitar, instead of a trick. Before that, it was mostly Jazz and Classical guitarists that could implement it in a musical way.
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Like I said before, I don't think tapping would have fit Hendrix's style. I think it would sound ridiculous if Hendrix tapped. I think guitarists definitely knew about tapping back then, but didn't see it as anything more than a trick. Like Blackmore sweep picking in the late 60's, it was just a trick.
+Harold.not.the.Barrel Hendrix did actually tap notes at times , as did a number of people like Hackett and such Not in the same way Van Halen used it, full blown through an entire solo, but none the less he did implement it at times, So did Zappa. In time, Hendrix might have done it a lot more By '74" he may have been using tapping to a much larger degree. We will never know. Ah well
+Harold.not.the.Barrel Yes I am. North to be exact. :)
Jimi hendrix used tapping, sometimes
+ShortFingeredShreder +1 to you. I always have to roll my eyes when someone gets credit for inventing something because they popularized it. It's ALL OVER the history books. People have been eating peanuts since pre-history ... but you're meaning to tell me that George Washington Carver was the first one to figure out that you can mash it up and put it on shit? Hell no.... I guarantee you tapping has been "discovered" or "invented" time and time and time again.... I bet you some guy in India 1500 years ago was wailing some sick tapping out on a shitty sitar made out of a gourd or something... He just didn't reside in a time and place where the communication technology allowed him to gain widespread notoriety for doing so.
In 74 or 75 a guy showed me how to tap my bass twelve frets up from the fingered note. He learned it from a cellist. A few years ago I saw a method book for string bass from the 1930's that included slapping triplets!
Well my grandad didn't invent farting but it was always epic when he did. So..errr... there!
ron bZoom what the fuck
no one can fart on demand.. he probably just has to shit his pants constantly..
Hey Joey , Mr. Methane can fart on q . He can fart the national anthem ! Check him out on YT.
Okay okay, guys! My point is that Eddie VH did not invent two handed tapping. But what he did with it and where he took it was epic. You know... Not unlike Grampy's fart artistry.
He was also creating "you really got me" ...
01:44
Kinks maybe
No one was thinking Van Halen actually INVENTED tapping? lmao as if no one thought about it before the 80s
Dottore Vittorio Camardese (1929-2014), an Italian Radiologist.
+Roelf Backus thank you! I was hoping somebody would know him and post his name in the comments.
+Roelf Backus yesss :) and he says that he has had to request a special permit for question of educational issues and costumes ... because infact he is a radiologist ahah old time old time
Is this really from '65? Italian TV was cool as fuck.
Grazie per la tua precisazione!
I think it's safe to say tens of thousands of guitarists discovered this technique independently because that's what I did two days after grabbing my first acoustic before even knowing tapping existed.
Eddie never said that he invented tapping.
Thats right guys...
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Most of the guitar community does tho,
no...no they don't...
Indeed. Steve Hackett was tapping long before we'd heard of Eddie. :)
Eddie Van Halen will tell you himself that he didn't invent tapping,
Eddie Van Halen never actually claimed to invent tapping, besides he probably discovered the technique on his own anyway, so it was equally as creative
Knifiac ... So, if I claim a wheel can rotate counter ckockwise .... apposed to its clockwise intention ... Im creative ????
He saw Jimmy Page hammer-ons on the break of Heartbreaker then EVH reckoned what if he used his right hand.
@@grahambird3112well no, thats not how it works! this guy done this and not many people would have seen this in the late 70s including van Halen. Van Halen perhaps 'invented' it not knowing it had been done and gave it to the masses. Now that is creative, not somebody claiming to rotate a wheel counter clockwise?
@@joebryant8500 yes Hackett done it and this probably influenced van halen, Idk. People say Brian May did it? No he didn't really. I love Brian May, he's in my top 3 guitarists but he didn't do tapping. In the video for bohemian rhapsody he looks like he's tapping and probably kind of is tapping but not really. In the song 'its late' he hammers on a few notes with his right hand but it's not really tapping.
Joe Bryant
Yes. EVH got the idea from Steve Hackett.
He’s admitted it at most once in the past. lol
2:22 - This has to be one of the first well documented cases of someone tapping on guitar. Yet, even this early this guy was exploring ways of making it work in context.
The time stamp here shows him literally using it to create BOTH the solo guitar and creating a rhythm to follow with. I can't say I've seen people even NOW use tapping in such a way. It almost sounds like a horse galloping, very unique.
Bravissimo, che gran persona e che umiltá.. Cose d'altri tempi!
finalmente il commento di un italiano! Bellissimo soprattutto il momento in cui dice che ha chiesto di uscire dal lavoro per andare in TV
Bass and guitar at the same time. This guys an absolute beast.
Awesome vid.. thanks for the upload! ps Why not change the title to say 'Vittorio Camardese' rather than 'This Italian guy'!!
i totally agree!!.
Yeah, that would be great. But this is not the only instance where American artists have names while other artists are just "any guys".
awesomo, virtuoso , numero uno
3:52 also this guy invented metal in 1965
I think it’s probably more likely any toddler that’s banged on a 🎸 “invented” tapping. Lol. 🤷🏻♂️
Great find!! Tapping goes way back, hundreds of years, though on the violin. Paganini struck the string with a bouncing bow. You can find musicians playing his pieces on youtube. I wouldn't get all caught up about who invented what on guitar. Everyone bounces off everyone else. If you want to try and claim originality on guitar good luck. Most likely, every pleasant sounding lick has been utilized. The trick is in choices. If I hear jazz I fall asleep. If I hear rock I pump my fists. If I hear classical I meditate, and so on... Guitar players nowadays seem more obsessed about creating chirps and whistles than music. Just play and have fun. That's the point of tapping. It dazzles. It's not meant to be a profound statement of one's soul. When Eddie has fun on stage that's when he is at his best. When he gets cornered about "Who's the fastest" he does what any great guitar player does...laugh it off. I dare anyone to try and keep up an attitude about how fast they can play over someone else. You'll be drinking hard liquor within a year, snorting coke with 3 years and in rehab in 5 years. Remember, tapping is there because it is fun to do, not because it is some sort of weapon of mass destruction. I watch 5 year old kids from Korea who seem to know more about playing than I do at 45. I don't think they would come up to me and say," You should just quit." No, they would smile and probably let me play rhythm while they rip through their amazing solos. Then they would let me do the same. That's what it's all about folks... FUN. If you find some sort of satisfaction out of maintaining a superiority complex then I do wish you well. Those individuals usually end up quitting anyway. No loss to mankind but a hell of a loss to your right to happiness. That in itself is worth something. As a musician all you should care about is making everyone smile...nothing more. And yes, that includes you too... :)
David, thank you for bringing sense through your words. Your post is spot on and exactly how I feel about this topic.
People really need to have much more fun and concentrate on entertaining rather than competing...!
Finally!!!....a guy on the internet I could hang out with, have a beer, and feel comfortable sucking as bad as I do on a guitar playing along.
If you wanna see more metal concerts:
Pantera - Full Concert 1992 (Monsters Of Rock)
Pantera - Live 1992 (Full Concert HD) Monsters Of Rock - With Tracklist
Sepultura - Full Concert 1991 [DVD/HD]
Sepultura - 1991 (Full Concert DVD/HD) Live in Barcelona with Tracklist [Under Siege DVD]
Nice find my friend... this is really cool to see. I wonder that guy's name, it sounds like he said something like "Victorio" or "Vittorio". I always figured someone had to have figured it out before Van Halen's days, and maybe even before this Italian dude.
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I love Dime Bag! I'll check it out..
+FullConcertsMetal Van Halen said he never invented it . lol
Eddie Van Halen wasn't even the first guitarist in rock to use it. STEVE HACKETT from Genesis used it prominently in 1972 in "Supper's Ready" and even more so in 1973 in "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight".
He wasn't even the second, or third, or... You get the idea. He only made it popular in the late 70's.
Actually, the first time it's used is in Genesis' Nursery Cryme, 1971. The song's "Return of the giant hogweed", the intro is tapped.
D. Adams you are soooooo wrong lol
cattybound2011 my grandfather invented tapping in 1800
joe Pipe thank you for wasting even a fraction of a second replying with that nonsense. I feel so validated.
Jimmie Webster was doing this in the late 40's early 50's. He called it the Touch System. I don't even suspect him as being the 'first'.
But wasn't it Paganini who first started tapping on violin? That would count as it is stringed instrument.
pics or it didn't happen
mgjr40023 Might be hard to get pics from Paganini's age :/
Paganini died in 1840 so there are early photos (daguerreotype) of him. Photography was invented around 1800.
twocsies Yea, but propably not pics of him tapping tho. It is only in the written sources. Church at one time even accused him of signing a pact with the devil because he played so well lol.
For the record, Paganini was a great guitar player as well. I've read somewhere that he was said to produce "unprecedented effects" with the guitar, so probably tapping was one of them.
I've found it on Google, this was written by french composer Hector Berlioz:
"Paganini loved incomparably music, which was an irrepressible need for him. When violin strained him too much, he'd extract from his folder a collection of duets written by him for violin and guitar, and he played the guitar from which he obtained unprecedented effects."
Niccolo Paganini employed a tapping technique for violin compositions that predates this by centuries. Variations on stringed instrument tapping has existed in many cultures.
+peaveystrat not tapping.
Giovanni Tobias not the way its done on guitar.
+peaveystrat "pizzicato" is not tapping.
Here's a cookie and a medal. You're right. Giovanni Tobias
ahahaha
He even goes a bit Metal on us at 3:53 with his right hand :-D
Man, that was awesome. Thank you for sharing this
Well, percussion tapping has been around since even older times, but it has rarely been implemented in rock since Eddie Van Halen made it popular (only in rock though). Also bass tapping in jazz has been a thing since way back in the day.
If only they could have given him an electric guitar with some serious distortion.
Doesnt mean he would be able to control the string noise, it's widely nearly two different instruments sometimes.
Bung The Booce OOORRRR he would be amazing.
thats why you have him on clean
***** even that.
Actually Django did tour in America with an electric but didn't really like it.
Totally incorrect. Tapping has been used for a very very long time, and we cannot know the exact origin of the technique. For example, classical guitarist and violinist Niccolò Paganini used tapping, or even George Van Eps (in the 50s) long before this guy here.
MikeTheUnseen Well said. It is unbelievably ignorant to suggest that tapping was invented anywhere near modern times. Music has existed for about as long as we have, people experiment and research the hell out of everything they discover.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Yep, it probably was a completely unknown peasant in medieval Europe that was hammering like a champ on his lute. He is not world famous or worshipped by millions for his mastery but I'm sure he had plenty of girlfriends!
best reply. Of course. It’s extremely dumb and ignorant trying to discover/check/decide who “invented” tapping. We shouldn’t even argue about it. Is like talking about who invented percussions or whistling. It has just being happening for a LONG time in various instruments and genres, Creativity and innovation has always being part of human nature
Jorge PB we debate who made it popular, child.
「Titanium Overdrive」 ふわふわ少年 no we don't, kid. The tittle of the video and the word used in the "debate" is INVENTED and my point remains. Tapping has been used for centuries in different instruments without no way to know the real origin
its the bass line tapping that does it for me! that is just phenominal.
tapping was discovered, not invented
g0atBallz420 true
g0atBallz420 so true!
No it's definitely invented. Like the guitar was invented or the hamburger was invented. A discovery is finding something that already exists.
rawdawg3234
nope, tapping on the guitar was discovered. obviously tapping existed from the second the guitar was invented, but nobody DISCOVERED it until somebody did it...
Ha ha. What the hell are you talking about man? Creating a technique of any kind. Wether it be martial arts or painting or whatever takes development and thought and practice. Think about it for a second.