And Michael Hedges. And Charlie Hunter. And Edmar Castaneda
...
Ben is a major influence on my playing and explorations. We've played together on numerous occasions and recorded three duo tracks on the Stickology CD. What a blast.
Now to my point, what are we as players doing to advance some unique approaches to The Stick and ultimately the music we're presenting?

Steve A

Hey Mike.
Good illustration dooder.....I liken that to a flam that a drummer produces....a rolling of notes so to speak.
Rob Martino gets a lot of mileage out of that technique,particularly on the melody side chords he comes up with.

cheers,
kev

unfortunately, I have no unique, or groundbreaking tidbits to offer......I tend to copy stuff parrot style. Maybe in 10 years I may have something to offer....

cheers,
k

I've been pushing the highest melody string off the fingerboard to emulate a quick glissando. It's a limited technique but it's a fun nutty sound that has its place.

That's officially called a Skronk.
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SA

not new, but new to me. tryin' to get the 'pop', two-handed bass (larry Graham-Thankyewfaletime...), more harmonics, and that l.h. thumb-shit that Boris Baruzov do (and the REACH!)

Kevin Keith has developed a cool way of making his bass side sound like slap and pop. In this video he places his finger under the string then pulls his finger up, causing the string to slap back down to the board. I know some of you may have seen this......but some may not.
Watch closely, you'll see it....particularly around the 35 sec mark you can actually see the string lift up.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2yPHlLr1s[/youtube]

Do we live in a universe cool enough to contain "Eruption" done on Stick? I've known personally and worked with probably 4, maybe 5 guitar players who could play Eruption, and I saw Yngwie play it live back in the early 90s and he did most of it one handed (!). I'd bet a couple hundred Canadian dollars (about $2.95 US) that Scott can already play it on his 6-string(s).

As the "Ultimate Tapping Song!" that most people know, I'm actually surprised that no one has taken on "Eruption" here in Stickland. The tapping parts are "easy" enough to transfer across, but there's some serious tremolo picking that I don't know how you'd do on Stick. Man, I'd love to see that happen. Any chance of getting Eddie Van Halen to jam on a Stick?
There's a Free Hands Friday episode somewhere that I've seen where Kevin Keith demonstrates this popping technique. Great stuff--I tried to steal this the other night and haven't quite got it down yet.

To do even differently expanded bass chords with one hand, I like to use my left hand thumb to get a bass note with a normal shaped chord over the top. The 5ths tuning lets this fit nicely in the hand. I wouldn't do this for an entire song, but it adds nice flavor.

do you have a link to any of their work?