Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer who plays the guitar using the lap-tapping technique. The guitar is tuned down, and the technique produces some fantastic sounds that you don’t get from standard guitar playing. His album, Fates, was released last year and is a truly beautiful piece of work.
Purely for recognition and appreciation, here is a live video of him playing the 7th song on the album, “Air Tap”.
I have actually seen this method of playing before in a movie called August Rush (of course it’s not really the kid playing it or least i don’t think so, but that’s how he started playing guitar in it). I love the sound of it, and this video was cool.
that was awsome.