I’ve been playing guitar for almost two decades and the relatively low string tension plus the unaccustomed pitches and lack of tunable ‘open’ strings of a tapper (megatar, whatever) made tuning very confusing for me. Not to mention the initially unusual movements of tapping a fret to tune. I think I broke the .009 four times because I tuned it too high and I still flinch every time I tune up more than a half step at once because I’m insecure about the pitch I’m at.

Methinks tap-guitar has been surrounded by this mythology, where you see a lot of accomplished players talking about complex chords and stuff, but the down and dirty beginners issues and insecurities are not talked about. Almost as if everyone is ashamed to admit they were once beginners as well.

I am very grateful for Traktor Topaz, Mobius (for one) and this method’s “no voodoo” approach to these instruments, even if I don’t own one myself.