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.
01:37of all your hands but you don't know how you're trying to play in the
01:39way.
01:39I'll see you next time.
01:40Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
01:44Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye!
05:18All right, so now I'm going to break it down step by step of how to play the first riff of Reverse Strike that has a lot of reverse tapping stuff.
05:26So you might ask why I play like this and it's because when I was 14 years old, I was very into practicing two hand tapping and stuff like that.
05:36and I was practicing 1, 2, 3, 4 with my right hand,
05:40and I quickly realized that I would never be able
05:42to be as good with this hand as I am with this,
05:45because, you know, it's so obvious.
05:47So I was like, man, why when we're doing tapping,
05:49all the more complicated stuff is here on the low register,
05:53while I only add some notes with my fingers
05:56on the high register.
05:58So what if now the more elaborate phrasing is up here,
06:02and I only do details with this hand?
06:04And that opened the door for a lot of new sonic possibilities
06:08in my playing and things that I noticed
06:10that I could connect the notes with.
06:12So in this, riff is not different.
06:15So let me walk you through how I play this, okay?
06:18All right, so we start off on a D chord,
06:21so strings D and G.
06:24Very sacquild kind of thing.
06:26You know, with a little bit of harmonic.
06:34So the rhythm here, the subdivision,
06:38is 16 triplets, so...
06:41And now the second part,
06:48you're going to do a little run that's going to be...
06:51And then you're going to do this light.
06:56So this is one of the main things of reverse stepping,
07:00that it opens up the possibility
07:01of you going back and forth like this
07:04without hearing a lot of the pick.
07:07And, you know, when I do like this, for example...
07:10If I was going to play with this hand,
07:13I'm going to be sliding back and forth all the time,
07:15and I don't like that sound.
07:17I want things to be more direct,
07:18like I had 10 fingers in one hand.
07:21So that's not possible,
07:23so that's why I do what I do.
07:24All right?
07:26So second thing,
07:27so starting the riff...
07:40So...
07:54Just make sure you pay attention on this fast run here.
08:08I'm doing a double stop,
08:10and also I lay down my finger a little bit
08:12so I can hit the two strings,
08:15both strings with one finger only,
08:17and then you slide towards the direction of your pickups.
08:20So...
08:21Okay?
08:22And also a quick tip for you to mute the strings
08:26when playing reverse stepping.
08:28You're going to use this part of your arm
08:30as your best friend.
08:31So everything that is above your last finger here,
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