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.
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05:30And 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 one, two, three, four with my right hand.
05:39And 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 is not different, 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.
06:36So the rhythm here, the subdivision is 16 triplets, so.
06:41And 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.
06:57So 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.
07:06And, 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, so starting the riff.
07:28So.
07:40So.
07:40Just 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 the two strings, both strings with one finger only, and then you slide towards the direction of your pickup, so...
08:22Okay? And also a quick tip for you to mute the strings when playing reverse tapping, you're gonna use this part of your arm as your best friend.
08:31So everything that is above your last finger here, it's gonna be muted by this, and everything below this finger will be muted by your right hand.
08:41So, after you do...
08:52So, this is how you finish up.
08:56So...
09:06Then 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.
09:23So now there's a second riff before the solo section in the song, where I use the reverse tapping in many ways, but this time I'm gonna basically follow the chord progression, which is 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 hammer-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...
10:00So...
10:08Okay?
10:09So...
10:10So...
10:31Then you do...
10:35This is the first string, okay?
10:36One string, okay?
10:37One string string, okay?
10:38One string string, okay?
10:54When the chord progression hits, what you're gonna do is basically adapt to what's going on.
11:00Then you repeat it again, so one more time.
11:24So you play that twice and that's it, you move on to the solo.
11:28And one thing on the solo that I wanted to point out, I think it's really interesting
11:31for you guys to pay attention, two things actually.
11:34One is completing with both hands, the phrasing that you're doing, for example, there's this
11:39phrase, I think it's really cool, and you follow up with an inversion of the A major triad,
11:51which I think it's something really cool, you can do reverse typing, so.
11:55And also, you could do stuff like that when you're doing the speed of light, it sounds
12:05really cool.
12:06So, in the solo, 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 is really cool, you can use a reverse tapping,
12:22because you can actually use double stops with your right hand, and it's just something
12:25more related to, it's more focused on rhythm than anything technical, really, so . . . .
12:37You know, so that I think it's really cool, so . . .
12:40So, 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.
13:01So, that's what I want people to say when they hear me.
13:04So, everything I'm doing here is way more focused on the sound than how it looks like,
13:09or how difficult it is, you know, to play and stuff like that.
13:13I don't really care about that.
13:14It's very hard, but it's hard because it is hard, not because I want it to be.
13:18You know?
13:19And also, I never settle with the idea that everything in metal and rock was already made,
13:25and I'm always trying to, you know, dig new sounds and dig new stuff.
13:30Even though I'm a very classic guy, you know?
13:33Randy is one of my favorite guitar players.
13:35Slash made me start playing.
13:37Eddie Van Halen, for me, is like the best of all time.
13:39And, you know, all my influences, like from Sinister Gates to Kiko Loreto to Marty Friedman,
13:45Jason Becker, all those guys are very classic, and I want to be one of them as well,
13:50but I also think there's a lot to still discover in metal and rock guitar.
13:56So, this is my contribution, I would say, so hope you like it.
14:00Alright, so I hope you guys enjoyed the video, and if you want to know more about reverse tapping,
14:04I recently dropped an online course about this technique, which I subdivided in rhythm and lead guitar,
14:12playing 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 too, ask me any questions or anything like that.
14:21So, follow me on social media, Luis Calil, underline, and Facebook or anything,
14:27Instagram, TikTok nowadays, and 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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