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Tapping is a guitar playing technique where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other. [1]

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Abraxas (album)

Abraxas is the second studio album by Latin rock band Santana, released in September 1970.

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Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born April 27, 1951)Gill, Julian.

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Action (music)

The action of an instrument plucked by hand is the distance between the fingerboard and the string.

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Arpeggio

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.

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Autograph (American band)

Autograph is an American rock band from Pasadena, California.

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Bağlama

The bağlama (bağlama, from bağlamak, "to tie") is a stringed musical instrument.

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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

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Billy Gibbons

William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the American rock band ZZ Top.

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Billy McLaughlin

Billy McLaughlin is a new age acoustic guitarist, composer and producer from Minnesota, United States.

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Brian May

Brian Harold May, (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer.

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Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American musician who has worked within many genres of music.

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Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Chapman Stick

The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr.

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Chris Broderick

Christopher Alan "Chris" Broderick (born March 6, 1970) is an American musician, best known as the former lead and rhythm guitarist of the American heavy metal band Megadeth.

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Dance the Night Away (Van Halen song)

"Dance the Night Away" was Van Halen's first top 20 U.S. hit, peaking at #15, and the second song from their 1979 album Van Halen II.

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Dazed and Confused (song)

"Dazed and Confused" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jake Holmes in 1967.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Dokken

Dokken is an American metal band formed in 1979.

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Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American guitarist, session musician, and co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band until his death following a motorcycle crash in 1971, at the age of 24.

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Dynamic range compression

Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.

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Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, and producer.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Emmett Chapman

Emmett Chapman (born September 28, 1936) is an American jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of the Chapman Stick family of instruments.

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Enver İzmaylov

Enver İzmaylov (Енвер Ізмайлов, Энвер Измайлов) born (June 12, 1955) is a Crimean Tatar folk and jazz guitarist who uses a tapping style on electric guitar.

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Eruption (instrumental)

"Eruption" is an instrumental rock guitar solo performed by Eddie Van Halen.

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Extended technique

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.

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Fair Warning (Van Halen album)

Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American rock band Van Halen.

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Fingerboard

The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Free Hands

Free Hands is the name of Emmett Chapman's two-handed tapping method of parallel hands used on his Chapman Stick instrument, and on several other Stick-inspired instruments.

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Fret

A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.

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George Lynch (musician)

George Lynch (born September 28, 1954) is an American hard rock guitarist and songwriter.

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George Van Eps

George Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) (often called the Father of the Seven-String Guitar) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.

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Glenn Tipton

Glenn Raymond Tipton (born 25 October 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning guitar player and songwriter.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guitar picking

Guitar picking is a group of hand and finger techniques a guitarist uses to set guitar strings in motion to produce audible notes.

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Guitar solo

A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music written for a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.

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Hammer-on

A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.

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Harpejji

The harpejji is an electric stringed musical instrument developed in 2007 by Tim Meeks, founder of Marcodi Musical Products, and is a descendant of the StarrBoard.

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Harry DeArmond

Harold "Harry" DeArmond (January 28, 1906 – October 12, 1999) was an industrial designer of electrical components.

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Harvey Mandel

Harvey Mandel (born March 11, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, United States) is an American guitarist known for his innovative approach to electric guitar playing.

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Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin song)

"Heartbreaker" is a song from English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1969 album, Led Zeppelin II.

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Hey Joe

"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and has been performed in many musical styles by hundreds of different artists.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.

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Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach)

The Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias, which are three-part contrapuntal pieces.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing.

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Jennifer Batten

Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers was an English blues rock band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE.

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Jorge Pescara

Jorge Pescara (born January 14, 1966) is a Brazilian Bassist and Megatar player, specializing in Fusion, Progressive, Experimental and Brazilian Jazz.

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Judas Priest

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in West Bromwich in 1969.

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Killing Machine

Killing Machine (known as Hell Bent for Leather in the US due to controversy over the Cleveland Elementary School shooting) is the fifth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest.

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Larry Carlton

Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and '80s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist.

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Legato

In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.

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Leslie West

Leslie West (born Leslie Weinstein; October 22, 1945) is an American rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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Live at Winterland

Live at Winterland is a live album by English-American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California.

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Megatar

The Megatar is a stringed musical instrument designed to be played with two-handed tapping.

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Mountain (band)

Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed on Long Island, New York in 1969.

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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer.

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NS/Stick

The NS/Stick is an 8 string tapping instrument designed by Emmett Chapman and Ned Steinberger.

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Nursery Cryme

Nursery Cryme is the third studio album from the English rock band Genesis, released in November 1971 on Charisma Records.

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Orange Blossom Special (song)

The fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special", about the passenger train of the same name, was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917–1981) in 1938.

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Paul Gilbert

Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966), is an American hard rock/heavy metal guitarist.

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Pick tapping

Pick tapping (or pick trilling) is a legato playing technique for the guitar, in which the edge of the pick is used to sharply trill notes on the instrument's fretboard at fast speeds.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument.

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Polyphony

In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.

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Pull-off

A pull-off is a stringed instrument plucking technique performed by "pulling" the finger off a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument.

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Pure Food and Drug Act (band)

Pure Food and Drug Act (listed in The All Music Guide to the Blues, the Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music) was a band that was formed in the early 1970s by Don "Sugarcane" Harris.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Randy Resnick

Randy Resnick is an American guitarist who has played with many blues and jazz luminaries, such as Don "Sugarcane" Harris, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall and Freddie King.

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Randy Rhoads

Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne.

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Richard Greene (musician)

Richard Greene (born November 9, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an American violinist (a.k.a. fiddler) who has been described as "one of the most innovative and influential fiddle players of all time".

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Ritchie Blackmore

Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter.

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Roy Smeck

Leroy Smeck (6 February 1900 – 5 April 1994) was an American musician.

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Russian traditional music

Russian traditional music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people.

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Santana (band)

Santana is a Latin music and rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Selling England by the Pound

Selling England by the Pound is the fifth studio album from the English progressive rock band Genesis, released in October 1973 on Charisma Records.

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Shred guitar

Shred guitar or shredding is a virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style for the guitar, based on various advanced and complex playing techniques, particularly rapid passages and advanced performance effects.

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Stanley Jordan

Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz guitarist whose technique involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.

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Starwood (nightclub)

The Starwood was a popular nightclub and music venue in West Hollywood, California from early 1973 to 1988.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972.

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Steve Hackett

Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and producer who gained prominence as the guitarist of the English progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977.

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Steve Lynch

Steve Lynch (born January 18, 1955 in Seattle, Washington), also known as The Two-Handed Guitarist, is an American hard rock/heavy metal guitarist, as well as an instructor for the Guitar Institute of Technology, the famous guitar department in the Musician's Institute of Los Angeles.

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Steve Vai

Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Tap guitar

Tap guitar is a class of guitar that is played primarily by tapping on the strings.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Musical Box (Genesis song)

"The Musical Box" is a song by English progressive rock band Genesis, which was originally released on their third studio album Nursery Cryme in 1971.

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Thrash metal

Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Touch guitar

The touch guitar is a musical instrument of the guitar family which has either been designed or adapted to use a fretboard-tapping playing style.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Van Halen

Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.

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Van Halen II

Van Halen II is the second studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on March 23, 1979.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Vito Bratta

Vito Bratta (born July 1, 1961, Staten Island, New York, United States) is the former guitarist and main songwriter for the rock band White Lion.

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Vittorio Camardese

Vittorio Camardese (Potenza, 6 July 1929 – 2 July 2010) was an Italian guitarist and physician, most famous among musicians and general audiences for his 'tapping' style of guitar playing.

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Warr Guitar

The Warr Guitar is an American-made "touch" guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard.

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West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Whisky a Go Go

Whisky a Go Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California.

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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist and bandleader.

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ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapping

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