Confirms my suspicion that there was always something very vaudeville about Metal bands and guitar players.😊

Only i see Woody Woodpecker in Sevilla barber?

Van Halen’s grandpa?! 😅

Jazz guitarist Roy Smeck was seen in the 1926 short film His Pastimes, was an early popularizer of tapping. EVH popularized it for sure BIG TIME but I wouldn't go as far to claim that he invented this technique per se.

Now we know Eddie wasn't the first string tapper

Pre-trash metal?

I Instantly had a spark in my mind : Eddie Van Halen would put tapping on his Electric Guitar 60 years after this...😱😱😊

1920's punk rock!!

EVERYONE if ur reading this comment, im watching this video at year 2023, its now 2023 i repeat its 2023, and im still listening to this master piecce, i love "Leroy Smeck"

Roy Van Smeck

He was the best!!!♥

I need a tutorial for this.

Little did Roy Smeck know that his playing would one day influence a guitar god of the modern age.

Run that through a 100 watt Mesa boogie head and an old Marshall 73 4x12 slant speaker cabinet.

Roy, the greatest string plucker ever!!!! Eddie van Halen is definitely second in inventing tapping!!!

Roy Smeck and Eddie Van Halen had that same trickster smile when they played.

Absolute master and genuis. Period. Ripping and showmanship on a ukulele (I think!)

Roy gonna smashing shred on ukulele and shoot out tapping on it

Reminds me a lot of Roy Clark 1:26 the tapping is notable- ridiculous technique all round :P

God damn this is entrancing to watch, the way he plays those strings is like nothing I've ever seen before

Great math rock moments of history

This guy must eat Shredded Wheat for breakfast.

Nice. But can he play "Smoke on the Water"?

Davie504 vs Roy Smeck. We need to see it happening

Watched this in class today. Jeez if they find this comment during class, I’m gonna die of embarrassment.

song tune or whatever this is called please

Dimebag vs. this guy Fight Dimebag still win though

Eddie van halen vs. this guy FIGHT Eddie still win thought

Roy should had shown up with Peavey amp in tow.

In case anyone is having trouble following the melody due to unfamiliarity, here is the original piano version of this semi-classic, the "Melody in F", Op. 3, No. 1, by Anton Rubinstein, from 1852. This piece became world-famous over the next 50 years, and by the time of Mr. Smeck's performance was already a much-parodied "warhorse / chestnut" in the classical music repertoire, fair game for all sorts of musical monkeying. Even 20 years before this, in the ragtime era, composer Nat D. Ayer and lyricist A. Seymour Brown ragged this piece in vocal-ragtime (ragtime song) format with their song "That Loving Melody Rubinstein Wrote" (1910), and Charles L. Johnson ragged it in instrumental form with his "Melody Rag" (1911). But anyway, here's Mr. Rubinstein's original score interpreted by Balazs Szokolay at the piano in a lovely version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJiFfbuflcyymWg.html

This is what happens when someone locks themselves in a room for months with food, water and their ukulele.

Roy Clark .....is that you?

Thanks you tube, first time seeing Roy Smeck.

From where it comes this video?

anybody knows when this was created?

Now play Tornado of Souls

This is simply 'SUPERB' 👏👏👏

All the dislikes are the guys who were rejected by the girls who went for Roy smeck instead

Jeez that lady is a tough critic!

The moral of the story: WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen Mr Conway Twitty. Seriously though what amazing talented, I saw a finger and mistook him for Reinhardt for a moment

That smile shows he's fully aware of his badassery.

Michael Angelo Batio of Ukelele

I would say... best top 50 uke players ever seen! And at #1 ROY SMECK!!

'Eruption'... Roy Smeck style

Eddie van halen, RIP, brought me here, to see the OG tapping.

This is the best ukulele playing I have ever heard

Eddie van Hallen brought me here

So thaaaats the guy who invented tapping?

If you mean the "tapping" part of the video, due to the tension of the instrument's strings, it's more of a "pizzicato" type effect, actually. It is known that Niccolò Paganini, in addition to being famous for his prowess with the violin, was very skilled at playing the guitar, the mandolin, and other stringed instruments. It is also well known that he used these and other techniques well over 200 years ago, so the whole "Van Halen invented tapping" thing is just hilarious, at best.