Eddie Van Halen Vs. Steve Hackett: who invented Tapping? #guitarplaying #guitarsolo #guitar

Let's compare licks and techniques by Steve and Eddie in the Seventies. With Tabs and interactive diagrams. Two-handed Tapping is one of the most revolutionary techniques that changed the guitar forever and it's forever linked to the name of Eddie Van Halen who developed and popularized it in the late seventies. But at the beginning of that decade, you could have heard samples of that technique on a few Genesis records, played by Steve Hackett...

[jonesy.]

eddie never claimed he “invented” whatever he was doing with his right hand on the fretboard. personally i don’t think he invented it, but i think he was a curious guy who stumbled upon it and brought to the larger guitar-playing community.