Chapman Stick lesson getting a good sound

Bob Culbertson mini lessons for learning the tapping method on the chapman stick

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Music

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• chapman
• stick
• lessons
• tapping
• technique
• guitar

[rrlavigne1]

If you want a "tapper" my advice is go for a used Stick if you can't afford new. Other tappers may be good for what they are but they are not Sticks.

[linorhino]

@Spudzilla5656 have you thought about getting a zentapper instead, about $1000 US, u can get the same strings and tuning as a chapman stick, only differance is it's a ladder tapper and doesn't have a wooden fretboard.

[Spudzilla5656]

Ever since I heard Discipline by King Crimson I've been wanting to get my hands on a Chapman Stick, but I don't think I'll be able to afford on anytime soon.

[Guitarist0001]

@theedlos

Vibrato can go down if you use a classical side-to-side vibrato where you push/pull the string rather than bending it up and down.

[foma42]

cheapest model is about $1900, i think

[MST2k]

@theedlos - guitarists (and sometimes stickists) will bend a string up in pitch, then produce a vibrato that goes down in pitch from the fundamental.

[xaviermoyssen]

how much is a stick?

[Ubu987]

You are correct. The lowering of pitch is especially pronounced on a classical guitar, or an electric with light gauge strings, or strings tuned flat.

[iaintnocommie]

Wrong.

That would only work on a fretless instrument.

This instrument, clearly, has frets.