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.