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.
01:37guitar solo
01:40Beatles
01:41歌
07:25All right?
07:26So, second thing.
07:27So, starting the riff.
07:28So, so, so, so, so, so, so,
07:58just 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
08:15strings, both strings, with one finger only.
08:17and then you slide towards the direction of your pickups, okay?
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,
08:36and everything below this finger will be muted by your own hand, your right hand.
08:41So after you do...
08:47So this is how you finish off.
08:56So...
08:58Then you come back to...
09:08Cool, that's the first riff, and I would say it's a good introduction of how to riff with reverse tapping.
09:22So now there's a second riff before the solo section in the song where I use the reverse tapping in many ways,
09:31but this time I'm going to basically follow the chord progression,
09:34which is D, and then A over C sharp, then C, then G over B, okay?
09:44So what happens here basically is that I'm going to be back and forth with slides and some hammer-ons
09:51to 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...
10:00Okay, so...
10:10Then you do...
10:32When the chord progression hits, what you're going to do is basically adapt to what's going on.
10:45So it goes like this...
11:04Then you repeat it again.
11:05So one more time...
11:14So you play that twice, and that's it, you move on to the solo.
11:27And one thing on the solo that I wanted to point out, I think it's really interesting for you guys to pay attention.
11:33Two things actually.
11:34One is completing with both hands the phrasing that you're doing, for example, there's this phrase.
11:44I think it's really cool, and you follow up with an inversion of the A major triad, which I think it's something really cool.
11:52You can do reverse timing, so...
11:54And also you could do...
11:57Stuff like that when you're doing the speed of light, sounds really cool.
12:05So in the song, basically I just do...
12:07And then also...
12:11Third tip, I would say you can use your right hand to do some rhythm.
12:17And the last thing on the solo that I think it's really cool, you can use a reverse tapping, is you can actually use double stops with your right hand.
12:25And it's just something more related to...
12:26It's more focused on rhythm than anything technical, really.
12:31So...
12:32You know, so that I think it's really cool, so...
12:39So it goes like this...
12:42So everything that I play...
12:53It's much more about having the impact that people hear me, and 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 like, 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.
13:19You know, and 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.
13:34Randy is one of my favorite guitar players.
13:36Slash made me start playing.
13:37Eddie Van Halen, for me, is like the best of all time.
13:40And, you know, all my influences, like from Sinister Gates to Kiko Loreto to Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, all those guys are very classic.
13:48And 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.
13:56So this is my contribution, I would say.
13:59So I hope you like it.
14:01All right.
14:01So I hope you guys enjoyed the video.
14:02And if you want to know more about reverse tapping, I recently dropped an online course about this technique, which I subdivided in rhythm and lead guitar playing.
14:13A lot of lessons, a 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 or anything like that.
14:22So follow me on social media, Luis Calil, underline, and Facebook, and anything.
14:27Instagram, TikTok nowadays.
14:29And 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.
14:37And, yeah, thanks for listening.
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