strange instrument???

[fenderrules]

was browsing the net and i found this weird instrument

http://www.stickmusic.com/html/biography.htm

it resembles a oversized fretboard with more than six strings. and if you look closely it seems that the top strings of a normal guitar and placed in the middle instead.

any of you guys seen it before????

 

[Chang]

Chapman stick dude.

 

[fenderrules]

how do you play it??

 

[nkubi87]

wow so i guess playing this stick only involves hammer pull offs & tapping, no picking?

 

[aireydon]

there was a Dream theater concert where by john myung used it b4. cant rem which one it is though..sorry..could be the budokan one

 

[Cloudsky]

Watch some LTE vidoes, Tony Levin uses the chapman stick. John Myung utilizes it also in a couple of songs i think.

 

[Chang]

Play by just "touching" the strings. Essentially it's tapping, but it's very responsive apparently, and thus u have to vary the tapping/touching to get the dynamics out.

Usually split into 2 parts, the bass side and the melody side. So u can do some cool bassline + melody playing.

Wiki for it to find out more

 

[fenderrules]

woah thats like....playing a guitar and a bass at the same time!

interesting...

 

[Chang]

the idea is more like playing a piano.

Left and right hand coordination, bass chords and melody and so on.

 

[bin4christ]

yea it's more like playing piano..u need v. gd left-right hand coordination..like split ur brain into right n left..

 

[suspend_thought]

it's pretty cool. Sounds nice too; can run efx like chorus and reverb and stuff like that like a guitar.

searching it on youtube gives pretty good results

 

[AEnimic]

try the band King Crimson...they have this instrument ...but i dun hear much of it in the songs...but yeah..check that band out

at first when i watched KC vids..i thought it was a 12-string bass 8O

 

[letterhead]

lol, this looks like a sitar

 

[pr0n]

dude, thats probably because it is a sitar.

 

[fenderrules]

hmmm i dont suppose there are any chapman stick players among us or in singapore??

my sis is kinda interested in the stick since shes a pianist.

 

[fuzzmusick]

Cynic uses chapman stick.. Cool band with cool stuff..

 

[edder]

As far as I know...

Stu from Syne Of Tyme(YAY!!!!) has got a chapman stick... or two.

Held one before and man... its a totally new instrument to learn. Pickups are very responsive.

 

[gsonique]

Gordian Knot

 

[Slash04]

Chapman stick.. It's a kinda a bass, rite? Wonder if they ship those here...