Adam Fulara
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Adam Fulara is a Polish guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 who specializes in two-handed polyphonic
Polyphony
In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ....

 tapping
Tapping
Tapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other...

.

Fulara plays both classical and jazz pieces, the latter often with his trio "Fool-X", which has toured much of Poland and Germany. His music has been featured in the periodicals (see also: interview in BBC).

Played in many international concert
Concert
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s, inter alia in USA (Great American Music Hall
Great American Music Hall
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, 2007). Appreciated by professionals(Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar
Sam Roy "Sammy" Hagar , also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Also sings Country Music....

: „Adam Fulara is realy(sic) genius.”).

In Internet Fulara's fame grew via various YouTube videos featuring his unique playing style and guitar. The videos showcase his tapping abilities and iconic face which goes into a grimace while playing. His most popular videos are his guitar versions of J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations
Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form...

which were originally for harpsichord. Fulara also keeps the complex counterpoint intact due to his double-neck guitar and tapping abilities.

Discography

  • "Two-handed tapping. Guitar workshop. Tapping oburęczny – szkoła na gitarę" DVD (65 minutes) + book, 2009,
  • "Doubleshred" as leader of Fool-X trio (41:22 minutes), 2006.

Sources

  • Magdeburger Volksstimme ("Two hand tapping mit Fool-X", August 31, 2006),
  • Czas Ostrzeszowski ("Debiutanckie wymiatanie Fool X Trio", November 22, 2006).
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