Steve Hackett called him “probably the most proficient tapper out there”: Watch underrated tapping genius Stanley Jordan apply his masterful technique to Stairway to Heaven – on two guitars at once

Stanley Jordan performs onstage, with two guitars

When you think of tapping as a guitar technique, naturally, one guitarist comes to mind: Eddie Van Halen.

Though he wasn't the first guitarist to incorporate the technique into their playing, countless others set out to master tapping in the wake of Van Halen's hugely influential 1978 instrumental, Eruption. Though not exclusively, the tidal wave of tapping that emerged in that brief piece's wake tended to appear as an accoutrement to the solos found in rock songs of the big-hair, Soldano-friendly variety.