May
18
Before you buy Chapman Stick, Get the Facts. Examine the Features.
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Although the Chapman Stick company offers some instruments with various numbers of strings, we’ll here compare instruments with the full twelve strings. We’ll therefore compare a standard Chapman Grand Stick with the simplest Mobius Megatar Touchstyle Guitar, the TrueTapper Eclipse.
You may be pleasantly surprised by the TrueTapper Eclipse, when compared feature by feature with the Chapman Grand Stick.
(In another article here you can compare two identical MP3 recordings of Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar instruments. Your eyes, your ears, your good sense, and your pocketbook will make it very clear.)
Aug
2
World’s Best Two-Handed Tapping Seminar?
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Are you a member of Tappistry.Org?
Tappistry.Org is a world-wide volunteer association of enthusiasts of the ‘Two-Handed Tapping Method’ to play bass, guitar, and specialty tapping instruments (Chapman Stick, Mobius Megatar, Warr Guitar, Kobayu Board, etc.)
Touch-Style play, also called Two-Handed Tapping means playing a guitar-like instrument by touching the amplified strings to the frets. You can play music with both hands using this method, so it’s like playing bass and guitar at the same time (if you have both bass and guitar strings).
Tappistry.Org has a selection of Articles with how to play music information and interviews. There is also a Resources section with theory, a list of manufacturers and bands, and some music lessons.
The most popular feature is the Tappistry.Org Tapper’s Forum. To become a member, there is no cost. Simply register and join the fun!
If you’re interested in the two-handed touch-style technique, and you’d like to hang out with like-minded musicians around the planet, Tappistry.Org is the place to be!
Click here to visit Tappistry.Org Forum
Jul
5
Star Wars Cantina Band Song on Chapman Stick
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[reposted link from boingboing.net]
The Cantina Song, from the movie Star Wars, is a funny scene with alien musicians as background for Han Solo and a bounty hunter. Here Guillaume Estace plays his version of the “Cantina Theme” from Star Wars on the Chapman Stick. The Stick is a type of specialized electric guitar designed for two-handed tapping. (Some call it ‘finger tapping’ or ‘touchstyle’). He can play bass and melody simultaneously, much like a piano.
This instrument, along with Warr Guitar, and Mobius Megatar, are great fun to play, surprisingly easy to learn quickly (IF you have the right method), and produce some great music.
May
16
This is an electronic unit from the original Grid design, which was created by Emmett Chapman. Emmett’s idea was to create a sensitive yet accurate tracking system to trigger midi units, and the Grid was somewhat ahead of its time.
The unit assumes that your Stick Enterprises Grid instrument is strung with uniform gauge .010 strings, which permits fast response, and the unit itself is a custom version of the WaveRider, adapted to the melody stringing of 10-string Stick.
I got this unit in trade some years ago, and it tested fine, but I have no Grid instrument and thus no need for the unit.
If interested, contact Traktor, email tappers /at/ megatar.com
Apr
12
Nice site! megatarcomparison.com
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Hello,
megatarcomparison.com – da best. Keep it going!
Have a nice day
Pett
Apr
12
I’m in the process of building a tapper, but if you have one you would like to sell very reasonably, I’d like you to contact me. Better yet, I have 14 guitars, 4 basses, 3 mandolins. a fiddle, banjo…and a few other things if you are interested in trading up/down with or without cash ect…
Thanks!
tjoe
tjoemiller at yahoo com
360-334-0586
Washington State