Tag: Michael Hedges

"Thunderfoote"

Hedges & Jordan Planted a Seed

The radical “double-tapping” guitar style pioneered by Michael Hedges and Stanley Jordan was a phenomenon I got to witness firsthand when a former musical sparring partner of mine went away to Boston’s Berklee School of Music and – like Robert Johnson and his famous pact at the crossroads – came

July 10, 2015 1 Comment

"Aerial Boundaries"

Hedges & Jordan: Two-Handed Tappers

The most radical thing about Emmett Chapman‘s Stick is that it requires you play the neck of a guitar like a piano, with each hand playing an independent part and the fingers tapping the strings in a keyboard-like fashion. As Alphonso Johnson stated in that 1979 Rolling Stone piece, “Most

June 19, 2015 No Comments