My Lap Tapping Guitar Cover of Drifting

This is my Lap-Tapping guitar cover of the great song "Drifting" by Andy Mckee

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Drifting
• Andy
• Mckee
• cover
• lap
• tapping
• erik
• mongrain
• acoustic
• Don
• Ross
• Antoine
• Dufour
• harmonics
• piano
• style

[reespawson]

Its nearly perfect!!! How long have you been playing and how long did it take to learn?

[guitar4794]

@reespawson

ahaha thanks dude, i can actually play this much better now, i started trying to learn this in april of 2009, and this was posted in october of 2009

don't be intimidated if you are trying to learn this. I promise you that anybody can learn this with enough practice. If you stay persistent and don't give up, you can due pretty much anything you want.

[guitarest974]

i can play this song almost perfectly regularly but when i tried it on my lap i was totally lost. great job!

[guitar4794]

@guitarest974

hey thanks man. I can play it just about perfectly in my lap, but when I try to play it in the standard position, i make tons of mistakes!

[Kahocu]

Hey Dude awsome job, I'd love to learn to lap tap. How did you learn to lap tap

[guitar4794]

@Kahocu thanks!

i guess i just put my guitar in an open tuning (in this case, DADGAD), and then i tried to watch what guys like eric mongrain and andy mckee. A lot of it is hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as natural harmonics.

Just try it and experiment I guess

[Monsta607]

lets just say, the cover is okay.

but why the hell on a lap?

[hanchristmas]

wow!! I've been trying to find out how to do this lap-tapping style after listening to Gilmore and Roberts' Fleetwood Fair, and came across this! It's brilliant. Well done!

[reespawson]

@guitar4794 Yea. I found out it was WAY easier than it looks. It only tooke me a day. XD

[brightonboarder]

that is so fucking cool

[GarretsShadow]

amazing quality of tone right there