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 and I hope you
01:07like it.
01:37Mm.
01:42Yeah.
01:44Mhm.
01:46Yeah.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Mhm.
01:53Yeah.
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07:24All right?
07:25So, second thing, so, starting the riff
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07:58Just make sure you pay attention on this fast run here.
08:09I'm doing a double stop, and also I lay down my finger a little bit so I can hit both strings
08:16with one finger only, and then you slide towards the direction of your pickups.
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 is going to be muted by this, and everything
08:37below this finger will be muted by your own hand, your right hand, so after you do...
08:53So this is how you finish off.
09:06Then you come back to...
09:15Cool, 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 going to 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 going to 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.
10:01Okay?
10:08Okay?
10:09So...
10:10Then you do...
10:35Open string, okay?
10:38When the chord progression hits, what you're going to do is basically adapt to what's
10:44going on.
10:45So it goes like this...
11:04Then you repeat it again.
11:05So one more time.
11:11So 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
11:31you guys to pay attention.
11:33Two things actually.
11:34I think it's really cool.
11:42And you follow up with an inversion of the A major triad, which I think it's something
11:51really cool.
11:52really cool.
11:53And then you can do reverse tapping.
11:58And also, you could do...
12:02Stuff like that when you're doing the speed of light, sounds really cool.
12:05So in the song basically I just do...
12:10And then also, third tip.
12:13I would say you can use your right hand to do some rhythm.
12:18And the last thing on the solo that I think is really cool, you can use a reverse tapping,
12:21is you can actually use double stops with your right hand.
12:24And it's just something more related to...
12:26It's more focused on rhythm than anything technical.
12:29Really, so...
12:32You know, so that I think it's really cool, so...
12:38So it goes like this...
12:42So everything that I play, it's much more about having the impact that people hear me and
12:59they 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 I'm doing here is way more focused on the sound than how it looks like
13:10or 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?
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
13:46Becker, 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 hope you like it.
14:00All right. 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 about this technique, which I subdivided in rhythm and lead guitar playing a 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.
14:21So follow me on social media, Luis Calil, underline and Facebook or anything, Instagram, TikTok nowadays.
14:29And also follow my band, Red Devil Vortex.
14:31We're dropping a new album very soon.
14:33And this is something I'm really proud of to be part.
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