Happy New Year everybody. Here is my favorite version of percussive guitar from Booker White. B.B. King, who is a cousin, says he created his unique vibrato to imitate his slide technique. I play this song but the technique tends to leak into all sorts of other songs I play now. It gets a big response. http://youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc
Vaj and Spraig may be interested in this link to my favorite acoustic guitar forum. It is biased towards my early blues interests but I think you may dig it. http://tinyurl.com/t2ynt --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:03 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > As an example, La Source du Lyson, written by Coste about 150 years > > ago, includes short > > samples of slappig the fretted strings to produce special sounds. > > There's a specific > > annotation in guitar sheet music and tablature for such a thing. > > > Not the same thing at all. I'm a classically trained guitarist, and > this ain't *anything* like your example. In two hand technique your > not merely slapping the strings, you're fretting legato type passages > with your right hand in extended slurring, hammer-ons and pull-offs. >