Editorial - Issue 1 (08)/2008

You could read in recent Editorials that there were some musicians with a great merits for the tapping technique: Enver Izmailov, Stanley Jordan, Edward Van Halen, Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. I must also mention Jennifer Batten who is the first female guitar tapper and her tapping excesses could be desired while performing along with Michael Jackson on one scene and, of course, on her solo albums. My introductions were intended to present a brief history of tapping in this way. I wanted to do it gradually and here it is - its last opening.

No many fans and guitar tapping devotees realize that the man being considered the Father of The Touch System (Two Handed Tapping, Tap Style, Touch Style) is James Donort Webster a.k.a. Jimmie Webster. This American guitarist was famous in the 50s and 60s. He wrote a specialist book explaining aforesaid technique in the year 1952 ("The Touch System for Electric and Amplified Spanish Guitar"). Moreover, Jimmie patented the model 6137 Stereo Project-o-sonic White Falcon Guitar who was designed especially for the tapping technique. In the year 1959, he recorded "Webster's Una-Bridged" LP which is one of the strongest proofs that Jimmie Webster was the pioneer of tapping mastery, however those wizards in the first paragraph were its popularizators and ones who improved it. I hope you draw a conclusion from this short history of tapping style!

Mikolaj 'Nicolo' Furmankiewicz
January/February 2008

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