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Stick Lessons
Stick Lessons, standard tuning I started fooling around on the Chapman Stick around 1997. The first year or so I didn’t know how to hold it, tune it, or amplify it. Then a friend showed me the secrets of Standard Tuning for a 10-string Chapman Stick: fourths on the treble side and fifths on the bass side –…
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Stick Lesson 8
I like this tribal bass line. If you can manage the fifths in the bass on the last four beats of each measure sound great if you slide them.
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Stick Lesson 7
This groove is sorta latin in 7/4. You can try the bass part by itself first. For me it only grooves if I hit the off beats with my treble hand – of course you can only hit the strings without sounding the pitches.
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Stick Lesson 6
A little melodic etude, based on Stick Lesson 5. Note that the chord symbols are for the basic harmony and don’t reflect the voicings which contain quite a few 9ths, 11ths ! 13ths.
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Stick Lesson 5
I came up with this while fooling around with effects. The bass line almost sounds like quarter note triplets.
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Stick Lesson 4
John McLaughlin has always been one of my favourite musicians. Some of his cross picking vamps are excellent to challenge your left hand/right hand coordination. This example is from his tune “Birds Of Fire”, from the album “Birds Of Fire”. He uses plenty of open strings. On top you see the original guitar line. The Chapman…
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Stick Lesson 3
This two measure pattern comes from an original tune called Anti-Matter Phase 1, recorded on BeebleBrox’s Entropy.
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Stick Lesson 2
This is exactly the same pattern as Stick Lesson 1 except that the bass notes are played on the off-beats while the treble notes sound on the beat.
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Stick Lesson 1
To me the hardest thing seems to be to get my two hands working independently yet together. Most patterns I come up with fall into the modal-stay-the-same category. Meaning you put the fingers on the right notes and nothing really changes. This example switches between two tonalities and on top of it runs a four-note…
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