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Stickist.com is a site for the Stick® community and dedicated to Stickists and aficionados of the Chapman Stick® .

Emmett Chapman's unique Free Hands parallel two-handed tapping method connects the musician more powerfully and more intimately to a stringed instrument than ever before. With both hands as equal partners on the fretboard, each hand can play independent lines, or the two hands can work in concert to form interlaced arrangements. The Free Hands method enables live execution of complete musical concepts, from the bass on through chords and melody, to the effects, ambients and sweeteners, greatly enlarging the musical scope. Welcome and enjoy the site!
~Manny, #1991 Padauk, 10-string, standard tuning.

Greg Howard demonstrates the method and the instrument in these video clips.

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Video #2

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1-5-09: Half fretless NS/Stick™


Major awesome/unique sounds. Info and videos here.

1-5-09: YouTube videos can now be imbedded in Forum posts. Thank you MarcRocs for the BBcode tip!

11-20-08: NEW MODEL: THE STICK GUITAR

Hi Everyone,

I'm happy to announce that the new Stick GuitarTM (SG12TM) is now available:
http://www.stick.com/instruments/sg12/

This 12-string guitar scale instrument is great for anyone who has no desire to be the bass player, and wants to explore tapping music in higher registers, like piano music, or two guitars playing together, all the way up into the violin register, but with accompaniment down as low as the G below guitar low E.

The Stick Guitar is available with Emmett's trademark inlays every five frets (as linear inlays) or dot inlays with a guitar pattern (shown above).

There's also a breakdown of six suggested tunings here:
http://www.stick.com/instruments/tunings/

Greg Howard,
Stick Enterprises