Luís Kalil – 'Boulevard' Reverse Tapping Lesson - video Dailymotion

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Luís Kalil stopped by Guitar World studios to give us another lesson in reverse tapping. This time for his song, "Boulevard," the title track from the 2-song EP featuring Dirk Verbeuren (former Soilwork) on drums and Lucas Arruda (Jack The Joker) on bass.

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00:00Hey everyone, my name is Luis Calil and today I'm at Guitar World. I actually can't believe

00:10I'm saying that. I'm here to play my song Boulevard and present for you guys my technique

00:15of reverse tapping, where you basically reverse the position of your hands and it opens a lot

00:20of new sounds and possibilities sonically. And I'm gonna be playing on this awesome ESP-LTD H3-1000

00:28featuring EMG, pickups, TW models and I'm in drop D tuning so hope you guys like the song as much

00:36as I do, alright? Let's listen to it.

00:58Let's listen to it.

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02:16Let's listen to it.

04:00All right, so now I'm going to show you guys how to play the riffs and lead parts that

04:13I use the most reverse tapping in this song.

04:16So basically, the riff, we're going to start off like this.

04:19Remember, we're in drop D tuning.

04:21So...

04:22One thing that's very important, whenever you leave the fret like this, make sure you really

04:37make a pull-off, you know, and you pull the string hard so it sounds very aggressive.

04:43Also, one very important tip, whenever you're using your right hand and your left hand, make

04:50sure you play and press the frets as hard as you can, because you've got to push the sound

04:55and separate the notes.

04:56This is the hardest thing about reverse tapping, and any tapping in general is about making

05:01the notes pop out in the middle of the mix or your band playing at the same time, and making

05:07it sound clean and not muddy, because it's a hard technique to execute, easy to sound muddy.

05:13So, pay attention to that and press the frets really hard, okay?

05:17So, second part is...

05:18So, this is a little feel that I do...

05:32So, when you get to...

05:37You come back to the riff.

05:44And in between, it's not on the original track, but I like doing the...

05:51Just on the fret 3, so strings D, G, and B. So, very Zac Wilde as well, and sinister gaze,

05:58I like that.

05:59Stuff like this, dying back there, I love that shit.

06:02So, second riff goes like this.

06:05Reverse tapping is not the main thing anymore, and I just add on the fills 1 and 2, so you

06:11know, just you can come back to the riff later, so...

06:13Remember, this part of your arm is gonna mute everything that's above finger 1, and everything

06:34below finger 1 will be muted by this finger here, okay?

06:37This is the best tip I can give you to mute the strings.

06:41And also, make sure you press really hard the strings, as I said before, and it's really...

06:47A lot of the process of playing something and learning a technique is about observing how

06:52it feels to play it right, and how it feels when you play it slow and you can mute everything.

06:57So, basically, just get used to really aiming at the D string, which is the only one you're

07:02playing, instead of hitting the other strings below and above and making sounds that you

07:08don't want to, okay?

07:09So, second part of the riff is...

07:15So, basically, really simple.

07:18I'm just avoiding the...

07:22You know, so that's why I play first with the...

07:24As I said, an alternative way to connect the notes that...

07:31You know, it's really specific on my taste.

07:34So, third and last part that I use the reverse tapping technique on the song is basically you're

07:38only gonna use the G string.

07:40And this is gonna play...

07:41It's a little faster, a little more complicated, but I think it's something really cool for you

07:45guys to work on.

07:46And also, you can use this in any solo that you want, any kind of scale that you have.

07:51You can just pick one string and you can start here and go crawling, you know, towards the

07:57beginning of the next.

07:58So, this is a really important thing.

08:19In the end, you notice, you can notice that I do...

08:25You know when Dimebag, for example, you use on the walks all the...

08:28So, it's really important when you do, when you come back...

08:32You...

08:35You know, you do that, so...

08:48And also, that's really important.

08:49It's like your pick attack when you don't have the pick, because you don't have enough

08:53time to come back with the pick, so just use your finger, alright?

08:56So, guys, hope you like these examples.

08:59I'm loving being here at Guitar World Magazine.

09:02It's a dream come true for me.

09:03I cannot actually believe that I'm here.

09:05So, guys, thanks for having me.

09:07Thanks, ESP, EMG, for all the support.

09:10And make sure you follow me and my band, Red Devil Vortex, online.

09:14You can find us anywhere from TikTok to Instagram, and check out our merch as well.

09:19If you want to know more about Reverse Zapping, I have the Reverse Zapping online course

09:23that I recently dropped, and it's all made by myself.

09:27And I, you know, since the...

09:29From the landing page to the actual videos you see, I edited everything, and I put my best

09:33on it to share with you guys how to incorporate this technique in your plane, alright?

09:38Thank you so much, guys.

09:39Thank you so much, guys.

09:40Thank you so much, guys.

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