Dave Knudson

Dave Knudson plays guitar with Seattle based indie band Minus the Bear, and was previously the guitarist for mathcore band Botch. Other credits include additional guitars on These Arms Are Snakes' album Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home. A continually updated forum topic dedicated to Dave Knudson's equipment can be viewed here. Dave Knudson is well known for his use of two-handed tapping, also called fingerstyle. He uses this technique to create polyphony (countermelodies), whereby his right hand will tap a treble melody, whilst his left hand plays a bass accompaniment. This technique is most apparent on the album Highly Refined Pirates, where it is used on every single song (except the electronic interludes.) Dave...