Tapping... including Chapman and his stick!
Tapping is a style of guitar playing where the strumming hand assists the fingering hand by tapping the fretboard and adding additional chord notes the fingering hand cannot reach or to supplement with syncopated notes to the melody. Assuming the guitarist is right handed, it's the left hand playing chords and the right hand that picks (or strums) the notes. By tapping the fretboard a note is played with the same volume as though it was plucked.The earliest example I found using this style was Vittorio Camardese from a 1965 video...
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It had both a guitar and bass guitar rolled into one instrument so the musician could play 2 parts at the same time.