00:00Hey everyone, my name is Luis Calil and today I'm at Guitar World magazine for
00:11a presentation of Reverse Tapping. So basically my biggest goal as a guitar
00:21player since the beginning was to find my voice on the guitar. And I always
00:25wonder why some people sound unique and others don't. And I came to realize it
00:30always came down to how they connect the notes and their ideas. So this is what
00:35Reverse Tapping is about. It's an alternative way to connect notes in your
00:40phrasing where you reverse the usual position of your hands when doing the
00:44usual tapping technique like this. And it's just an alternative way where you
00:49reverse the position of your hands compared to the usual tapping technique
00:52that you usually do like this, where it opens the door for a lot of new sounds
00:57and new possibilities to connect notes, ideas and phrasing. So now I'm gonna play
01:02for you my song Reverse Strike featuring Dirk from Megadeth on drums. I hope you
01:07like it.
01:37All right.
05:31When I was 14 years old, I was very into practicing two-hand tapping and stuff like that, and I was practicing one, two, three, four with my right hand, and I quickly realized that I would never be able to be as good with this hand as I am with this, because, you know, it's so obvious.
05:47So I was like, man, why when we're doing tapping, all the more complicated stuff is here on the low register, while I only add some notes with my fingers on the high register.
05:57So what if now the more elaborate phrasing is up here, and I only do details with this hand, and that opened the door for a lot of new sonic possibilities in my playing and things that I noticed that I could connect the notes with.
06:12So in this riff, so in this riff, so let me walk you through how I play this, okay?
06:18All right, so we start off on a D chord, so strings D and G.
06:22Very Sack Quild kind of thing, you know, with a little bit of harmonic, so.
06:29So the rhythm here, the subdivision, is 16 triplets, so.
06:46And now the second part, you're going to do a little run that's going to be.
06:54And then you're going to do this light.
06:56So this is one of the main things of reverse stepping, that it opens up the possibility of you going back and forth like this, without hearing a lot of the pick.
07:07And, you know, when I do like this, for example.
07:11If I was going to play with this hand, I'm going to be sliding back and forth all the time, and I don't like that sound.
07:17I want things to be more direct, like I had 10 fingers in one hand.
07:21So that's not possible, so that's why I do what I do.
07:25All right?
07:26So, second thing.
07:27So, starting the riff.
07:40So.
07:40So.
07:56Just make sure you pay attention on this fast run here.
08:08I'm doing a double stop, and also I lay down my finger a little bit so I can hit the two strings, both strings, with one finger only.
08:17And then you slide towards the direction of your pickups.
08:21So.
08:22Okay?
08:22And also a quick tip for you to mute the strings when playing reverse tapping.
08:28You're going to use this part of your arm as your best friend.
08:31So everything that is above your last finger here, it's going to be muted by this, and everything below this finger will be muted by your own hand, your right hand.
08:41So, after you do...
08:43So, this is how you finish off.
08:54Then you come back to...
09:08Cool, that's the first riff.
09:19And I would say it's a good introduction of how to riff with reverse tapping.
09:23So now there's a second riff before the solo section in the song where I use the reverse
09:29tapping in many ways, but this time I'm gonna basically follow the chord progression, which
09:34is D, and then A over C sharp, then C, then G over B, okay?
09:45So what happens here basically is that I'm gonna be back and forth with slides and some
09:50hammer-ons to match what's going on in the chord progression.
09:54So this is what it sounds like.
09:56So basically we start off with a variation of the first riff.
09:59So, okay?
10:09So.
10:10Then you do open string, okay?
10:27When the chord progression hits, what you're gonna do is basically adapt to what's going
10:45on.
10:46So it goes like this.
11:04And then you repeat it again.
11:05So one more time.
11:24So you play that twice, and that's it.
11:26You move on to the solo.
11:28And one thing on the solo that I wanted to point out, I think it's really interesting for
11:31you guys to pay attention, two things actually.
11:34One is completing with both hands, the phrasing that you're doing.
11:38For example, there's this phrase, I think it's really cool, and you follow up with an inversion
11:49of the A major triad, which I think it's something really cool.
11:52You can do reverse tapping, and also you could do stuff like that when you're doing the speed
12:04of light.
12:05It sounds really cool.
12:06So in the song, basically I just do .
12:10And then also, third tip, I would say you can use your right hand to do some rhythm.
12:18And the last thing on the solo that I think it's really cool, you can use a reverse tapping,
12:21is you can actually use double stops with your right hand, and it's just something more related
12:26to, it's more focused on rhythm than anything technical, really, so, you know, so that I
12:37think it's really cool, so, so it goes like this.
12:52So everything that I play, it's much more about having the impact that people hear me
12:58and they say, man, my guitar didn't come with these notes.
13:02So that's what I want people to say when they hear me.
13:05So everything that I'm doing here is way more focused on the sound than how it looks
13:09like, or how difficult it is, you know, to play and stuff like that.
13:14I don't really care about that.
13:15It's very hard, but it's hard because it is hard, not because I want it to be, you know.
13:21And also, I never settle with the idea that everything in metal and rock was already made.
13:26And I'm always trying to, you know, dig new sounds and dig new stuff.
13:31Even though I'm a very classic guy, you know, Randy is one of my favorite guitar players,
13:36Slash made me start playing, Eddie Van Halen for me is, like, the best of all time, and,
13:40you know, all my influences, like, from Sinister Gates to Kiko Loreto to Marty Friedman, Jason
13:46Becker, all those guys are very classic, and I want to be one of them as well.
13:51But I also think there's a lot to still discover in metal and rock guitar.
13:57So this is my contribution, I would say, so I hope you like it.
14:00Alright, so I hope you guys enjoyed the video.
14:02And if you want to know more about reverse tapping, I recently dropped an online course
14:08about this technique, which I subdivided in rhythm and lead guitar playing a lot of lessons,
14:14a lot of tips and tricks that you can add to your playing.
14:17And also you get to stay in contact with me to ask me any questions, anything like that.
14:22So follow me on social media, Luis Calil, underline, and Facebook, and anything, Instagram,
14:28TikTok nowadays.
14:30And also follow my band, Red Devil Vortex, we're dropping a new album very soon.
14:34And this is something I'm really proud of to be part.
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