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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 4, 2017 at 12:00am

sure alot of folks tap on a cbg .. 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/air-time-air-tapping-on-a-cigar...

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/cbg-improvisation-by-big-nick

etc etc  ... unles you meant beat tapping on the box etc  ? .. 

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Permalink Reply by Dustin Aurand on April 4, 2017 at 2:13am

To clarify, I mean the Van Halen style tapping. Two handed, three finger, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Dustin Aurand on April 4, 2017 at 2:14am

I actually watched this yesterday. To clarify, I mean the Van Halen style tapping. Two handed, three finger, etc.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 4, 2017 at 2:20am

yup , it is done  , you can probably  find  more examples  with a search   (top right corner of  page   )  but not much different that regular  6 string guitar tapping  .. besides less strings  . and  you gotta do  it alot harder if it's  a fretless .  

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 4, 2017 at 4:01am

You can also learn to do tapped ghost harmonics (requires two fingers) at any length along the string. These are weird, and I have found it, and "conventional" tapping, to be beyond me, other than single notes. I find I have enough to do with working other techniques to try to add this one.

Which doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

Here's one good vid showing you how, which, as pick says, should be equally applicable to fretted diddley bows, dulcimer, 3-, and 4-string CBGs as to 6-stringers:

https://www.justinguitar.com/en/TE-504-TappedHarmonics.php

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Permalink Reply by James O Lunsford on April 7, 2017 at 1:08pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_aA6kLkO_g       I call this one Tickling Little Red Has some taping

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