This week I was playing my Stick for a private group when someone who plays guitar kept asking me why my RH thumb was on or behind the neck. I explained it’s all tapping or tap and hold. Again, I kept getting asked the same question. So I did one of Steve Adelson’s claw techniques and used all 5 fingers of my right hand on both melody and bass side at the same time. Then he understood what I was doing. Someone else asked him, “why don’t you let Steve let you try playing it.?” “hell no, I have enough trouble with just six strings”. . My take is he could not make the connection of someone using both hands to tap, perhaps assuming I was fingerpicking on the neck.

He did however assist me in playing “table top hand drummming”. Was cool, he kept a good groove going in time on a fold up table.

Next time when someone says they have enough trouble with six strings, tell them that more strings gives you a better chance of hitting the right note

Steve A

If a guitar player asks why your thumb is behind the neck, just say "same reason yours should be".

Glenn, isn't Steve talking about his RIGHT hand being behind the neck? Because he holds it with two hands, one on each side, unlike a guitar player. Of course, like guitar, his left thumb would be behind the neck, but a guitar player's right hand thumb would be holding a pick. [For right-handed people and I believe Steve B. is].

Yes, I’m a right hander

Yes of course. But on the Stick, both hands are "equal partners" and both are fretting. That's what makes Emmett's Free Hands method different from how a lot of guitar players tapped and why it's so much more effective.

I'm still waiting for someone to ask "How do you tune it?' so I can reply, "Oh, you twist these little things up here..."
Attributed to Jim Meyer, Tap Talk Episode 6

Someone once asked me that about my NS Design CR4 Bass, I told them the standard EADG bass tuning. She said “no that’s not what I meant”. A few moments of silence, then I realized I was playing a headless bass not many people have seen, them pointed out where the tuning machines were in the bridge. It’s those “little things” she didn’t know the name of

Must have been a campfire strummer.

Thumb around the guitar neck is very useful for a couple of different vibrato types and country-style oblique bends, plus if you want to play Hendrix authentically... Lots of rock stuff has the occasional "thumb wrap" but to do it as a regular playing "posture" - it certainly doesn't work for me, that's for sure. And classical guitar, well it's just a no-no...