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Daniel Schell (Schellekens, Brussells 1944, French as mother language) has studied tapping technique with Bart Carette and then with Emmett Chapman in the middle 1980's. He now teaches tapping technique in the Sangit School of Music, Brussells Belgium, and in the annual E-Tap European Tap-Guitar Seminar (which he founded in 1990).
An active composer, he has written a number of chamber music pieces for tap-guitar, and the Ensemble Karo. He also composed an opera called "Hygiene de l'Assassin" (based upon the novel by Amelie Nothomb) which included a tap-guitar part performed by Wolfgang Daiss of Germany.
Daniel Schell is also the developer of the Mirrored-Fourths tuning which is popular among European touch-stylists, and the developer of the "C-Dots" system, which is a system of fretboard navigation. His tunings, C-Dots, and his method of learning are all presented in his method book (carried by Mobius Megatar) called "My Space," which includes Volume 1, the Textbook, and Volume 2, Exercises (which contain many of his charming compositions).
In a newsletter stored in the Library's Documents Archive on this website, Mr. Schell also provides a useful article clarifying pros and cons of popular touch-style tunings and string arrangements; the article is called "Crossed Hands and Uncrossed Hands".
Mr. Schell has kindly granted us permission to present two compositions he recorded with the Karo Ensemble, playing the Mobius Megatar ...
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