Andy McKee - Art of Motion - Guitar - www.candyrat.com
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange users point people to it as a concrete example when asking about or explaining percussive fingerstyle techniques like slap and harmonic tapping.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2011 to 2016.
What it is
A 2006 performance video of Andy McKee playing his solo fingerstyle piece 'Art of Motion' on a Lowden F32 acoustic guitar, uploaded by Candyrat Records. It shows percussive and tapping techniques such as slaps and harmonics in a single continuous take.
What people said
Recommends user28 · 2016-12 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Strumming with fingers”
How it "looks" is not really an important consideration. Focus on comfort, sound, and technique. That said, I think this will be problematic for you on all three counts. You're restricting your range of motion fairly significantly. Your fingers have limited room to move (essentially just crunching in and out of your palm) which is awkward and probably going to lead to pain with any significant amount of playing. It will certainly prevent you from strumming quickly (which should be done with the use of the arm or wrist, moving the position of the whole hand). Not to mention that resting your thumb there prevents you from strumming the lowest string (or at least letting it ring after the strok
Cites Dave Jacoby · 2011-02 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What are some good slap guitar resources?”
I'm not too familiar with Andy McKee, so I'm taking "Art of Motion" [this video] as a representative sample. There are two things that I'm seeing/hearing that correspond to the concept of "slap". The bit that sounds a bit like a closing hi-hat that's mostly a percussive thing is what "slap"-style bassists do, pushing the low string against the frets. The other thing, which I got from Michael Hedges, is to slap across the strings 12 frets above a fretted chord, or at the 12th fret if you're not fretting. You're not going to get a full chord unless you tune open (or unless you like an open Em7Add4 chord) but if you fret a barred G chord at the 3rd fret and slap so you hit the B string at the 15th f
Cites Pam · 2011-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is this technique called? Holding finger on string above 12th fret”
In this [this video] video, scroll to around 1:24. Andy McKee puts his right hand on 12th fret (Not sure) and pulls out his left hand from 3rd or 4th fret producing a peculiar sound. What is this technique called? And how exactly is it done? (I am not sure if this is a proper way to ask a question, but had no other way to explain)