Unbelievable tone Chapman Stick playing

[tubenit]

This really blew me away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think this is one of the coolest tones and tunes that I've heard in a long long time.

Tomorrow Never Knows - Greg Howard Chapman Stick guitar tapping

Tubenit

[tubenit]

While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Chapman Stick

[EL34]

Man, that is some cool stuff!

[Willabe]

Hey that second guy has 3 sticks on stage behind him. Are they in different tunings?


               Brad      

[G._Hoffman]

Hey that second guy has 3 sticks on stage behind him. Are they in different tunings?


               Brad      

I liked the second guy.  One of the instruments behind him was an acoustic something or other (presumably, another touch guitar of some sort), and one of the two Sticks appears to have been a tenor stick (it was shorter). 

But what I actually liked about him is that = in stark contrast to 99.5% of the Stick players on the planet, and similar numbers of the tap guitar and bass players out there - he actually could control his dynamics.  Most of the time, if you listen to tappers, they either have really crappy dynamics, with huge volume changes from note to note, or they have these massive compressors in place that make everything exactly the same level.  His playing had some personality and feel to it, because he COULD control his dynamics.  Which, by the by, is really bloody hard when tapping (it must be, given how bad they all are at it!). 


Gabriel

[Fresh_Start]

I liked the second guy.  One of the instruments behind him was an acoustic something or other (presumably, another touch guitar of some sort), and one of the two Sticks appears to have been a tenor stick (it was shorter). 

But what I actually liked about him is that = in stark contrast to 99.5% of the Stick players on the planet, and similar numbers of the tap guitar and bass players out there - he actually could control his dynamics.  Most of the time, if you listen to tappers, they either have really crappy dynamics, with huge volume changes from note to note, or they have these massive compressors in place that make everything exactly the same level.  His playing had some personality and feel to it, because he COULD control his dynamics.  Which, by the by, is really bloody hard when tapping (it must be, given how bad they all are at it!). 


Gabriel

Knowing nothing about tapping, the second guy was so much more musical to my ears. 

Looking at his fretboard, he's put in a lot of time on that stick!

Cheers,

Chip