Basically, I use hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Stanley Jordan's main guitar was built by Vigier Guitars in 1988: it is an Arpege model on which Vigier made a flat fingerboard allowing it to have a very low action (0. This similarity is what led Jordan to attempt such a technique in the first place;[citation needed] he was a classically trained pianist before playing guitar and wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar. Stanley Jordan also made the startup sound for the old Macintosh computers Power Macintosh 6100 Power Macintosh 7100 and Power Macintosh 8100.

Stanley Jordan (July 31 1959) is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and pianist.