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My musical life
started with the piano and grew to include the electric
bass when I became
a teenager. At some point in my early twenties,
I realized that
I loved the bass, but wanted the polyphony offered by
the piano.
And in 1984, a string of events occurred that led me to a
new world of music
making. The first was in January 1984, when I went
to the NAMM convention
in California and saw The Stick first-hand,
up close and personal.
I didn't get a chance to try one, but I got some
literature and watched
others for a while.
The second event
happened a month or two later, when I saw an ad in
a music magazine
for The Stick. Then in the late spring, I attended the
end-of-year concert
at my college for the music majors. When their
recital ended, a
special performance was presented - featuring
Emmett Chapman.
Driving this series of events home was a late
summer concert to
see Santana. Now, those familiar with Santana's
music know The Stick
doesn't and never has been part of the band's
instrumentation,
but that year, Alphonso Johnson was touring with them
as their bassist.
As part of the show, Alphonso chose not to do a bass
solo, but instead
strapped on The Stick and performed a lovely piece
with the drummer.
A month later I called Stick Enterprises and ordered
my own and in October
1984 I was the proud owner of a brand new
Stick. My advice
to anyone learning this instrument is simply this.
devote all or at
least a majority of your practice time to The Stick.
If you have spent
years becoming competent or even expert with
another instrument,
why should you expect to apply less effort to a new
and different method
of making music ?
For example, let's
say you've been playing guitar for five years and
now you want to
learn The Stick. If you split your time practicing The
Stick and guitar,
during the next 10 years, it will take you this time to
achieve the same
competency with The Stick as it did with guitar.
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Chris Crain ha contribuido
de forma inestimable en el mundo del Chapman Stick con sus ediciones,
autenticas biblias
para consulta y comprensión de la procelosa jungla de la formación
de acordes
con el stick: "The
Sticktionary" seguido por un más complejo "Polychords".
Transcripciones
de temas archiconocidos y su más reciente tutorial : "Stick'
e-Lessons"
complementado con
mp3, midi y vídeo. Un metodo COLOSAL ( en mayusculas ).
Agradezco a
Mr Crain su colaboración y mi agradecimiento por escribir
unos estupendos
métodos que
nos aclaran un poco como funciona la estructura musical teórica
del instrumento
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