Editing Stanley Jordan (section)

=== Touch technique ===
Normally, a guitarist uses two hands to play each note. One hand presses down a guitar string behind a chosen [[fret]] to prepare the note, and the other hand either plucks or strums the string to play that note. Jordan's touch technique is an advanced form of two-handed [[tapping]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> The guitarist produces a note using only one finger by quickly tapping (or [[Hammer-on|hammering]]) his finger down on the appropriate fret. The impact causes the string to vibrate enough to sound the note, and the volume can be controlled by varying the force of impact. Jordan taps with both hands, and more [[legato]] than is normally associated with guitar tapping. His technique allows the guitarist to play [[melody]] and [[Chord (music)|chords]] simultaneously.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> It is also possible, as he has demonstrated, to play simultaneously on two different guitars, as well as guitar and piano.

He plays guitar in [[all-fourths tuning]], from bass to treble EADGCF (all in [[perfect fourth]]s as on the bass guitar) rather than the standard EADGBE. He has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical".<ref>{{harvtxt|Ferguson|1986|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3idLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Stanley+Jordan%22,+%22all+fourth%22+OR+%22perfect+fourth%22,+guitar+tuning 76]}}: {{cite book|chapter=Stanley Jordan|first=Jim|last=Ferguson|pages=68–76?|title=New directions in modern guitar|series=''[[Guitar&nbsp;Player]]'' basic library|editor1-first=Helen|editor1-last=Casabona|editor2-first=Adrian|editor2-last=Belew|editor-link2=Adrian Belew|publisher=Hal&nbsp;Leonard Publishing Corporation|year=1986|isbn=978-0-88188-423-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3idLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Stanley+Jordan%22,+%22all+fourth%22+OR+%22perfect+fourth%22,+guitar+tuning}}</ref>

Jordan's main guitar was built by [[Vigier Guitars]] in 1984: it is an Arpege model on which Vigier made a flat fingerboard, allowing it to have a very low action (0.5/0.7mm). The low action facilitates the tapping technique.