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starr36
Platinum Member
Canada
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 Posted - 07/03/2009 : 01:09:46
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- if you ever get a chance to see some incredible musicianship, go see someone who plays the Chapman stick.
- it's basically a bass guitar and regular guitar in one unit, fischman electronics and is played by hammering on for basslines and hammring on with your picking hand for lead chording etc; they are configured in 10 12 or more strings and handmade in California, you can't really play it by picking it - its a tapper's heaven
- see a good player at this and you will grin from ear to ear.
http://www.stick.com/
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FrenchBOSS
Bronze Member
France
68 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 02:08:37
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| I tried it once, it's a crazy instrument, but i wouldn't try to pick it, pick-ups are highly sensitives, actually, first time i tried to pick it (because i didn't know i had to hammer on it), and i almost crush the amp and immediatly understood i had to tap it, so take care |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 07:24:18
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| Plenty of Stick playing on dvd�s by King Crimson, Trey Gunn and Tony Levin knows how to handle the Stick! |
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PaulH
Gold Member
535 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 18:53:11
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Tony Levin in the 80's incarnation of King Crimson was where I first came across a Stick
Combined with Belew & Fripps manic poly ryhthms and Brufords time signatures it is superb.
Here's the classic Elephant Talk...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76eoyyem2K8
And Adrian Belew certainly uses a lot of tricks up his sleeve on this version too.
Oh, and 20+ years laters it's still damn hard to work out who is actually playing what parts in their stuff.
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 20:14:15
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