The Chapman Stick...have you seen one?

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I've been playing forever and never knew this thing existed. I have a hard time playing a 6 stringer as it is; I can't imagine the dedication it takes to plays the Stick. Here a video:

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A lot of people thought Eddie Van Halen invented "tapping" until it was pointed out that that Chapman developed the two hand tapping method of playing in 1969.

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Actually, I read that it was an Italian guitarist named Vittorio Camardese who did a few recordings in 1965. Chapman expanded the concept to more than 6 strings.

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In fact this technique, now known as tapping , had been used previously by other musicians, like the American Roy Smeck in the thirties. However, the use of original Camardese stands already for some items that a decade later they would have decreed the fortune in pop, rock and fusion. Among these the most virtuosity, not only during speed work, but also in the ability to recreate a level auditory sensation of an instrumental ensemble (bass, guitar accompaniment, percussion), all on a harmonic structure of a mainly jazz.

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Those people think that the Pontiac Firebird was the greatest car ever created.

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