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Check out the video below of Zack playing the Super Mario Brothers Theme.Two-handed tapping can be utilized to play polyphonic and homophonic music on a guitar by using eight (and even nine) fingers. For example, the right hand plays the treble melody while the left hand plays an accompaniment. Therefore, it is possible to produce music written for a keyboard instrument, such as J.S. Bach's "Two-part Invention".
The method increases the flexibility of the instrument, in that it makes it possible to play more types of music on a guitar. The main disadvantage is the lack of change of timbre. As it produces a "clean tone" effect, and since the first note usually sounds the loudest (unwanted in some music like jazz), dynamics are a main concern with this technique, though Stabnley Jordan and many Stick players are successful tapping in this genre.
Depending on the orientation of the player's right hand, this method can produce varying degrees of success. Early experimenters with this idea like Harry DeArmond, his student Jimmie Webster, and luthier Dave Bunker held their right hand in a conventional orientation, with the fingers lined up parallel with the strings. This limits the kind of musical lines the rght hand can play. Emmett Chapman was the first to tap on guitar with his right hand fingers lined up parallel to the frets, as on the left hand (August, 1969). This led to complete counterpoint capability and a new instrument, the Chapman Stick.
Stanley Jordan popularized this method on a six-string guitar, using an all 4ths tuning as previously on The Stick. He calls his approach "touch guitar," but it is essentially Chapman's Stick technique, though Jordan developed it independently, and at a later date.
