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What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
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What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
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wferguson
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Joined: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:10 pm Posts: 186 Location: Live Oak, CA
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
Started on keys/piano when I was 14, stepped up to bass when I was 19 and stuck with it until I was 30, then incorporated a guitar into the act.
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Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:53 am |
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greg
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
Keys (piano, organ and synths), saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, all with some training, timpani, mallets, flute, EWI (analog version), prepared and normal flute all with no training, Voice with no training and lots of straining.
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Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:33 pm |
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Nomad Monday
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Joined: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:16 pm Posts: 250
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
greg wrote: Keys (piano, organ and synths), saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, all with some training, timpani, mallets, flute, EWI (analog version), prepared and normal flute all with no training, Voice with no training and lots of straining. So you didn't play any string instruments before Stick? That gives me hope, I felt like the only one I started on piano as a kid, also played concert percussion in school. Got more serious about music on mallet percussion in high school and college. Recently began playing drum set, and most recently Megatar.
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Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:23 pm |
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greg
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick?
Nomad Monday wrote: greg wrote: Keys (piano, organ and synths), saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, all with some training, timpani, mallets, flute, EWI (analog version), prepared and normal flute all with no training, Voice with no training and lots of straining. So you didn't play any string instruments before Stick? That gives me hope, I felt like the only one I started on piano as a kid, also played concert percussion in school. Got more serious about music on mallet percussion in high school and college. Recently began playing drum set, and most recently Megatar. I always listened to guitarists with envy, for the sonic capabilities, especially bending and distortion. As a huge fan of Fripp, Howe, Terry Cath (the first Chicago album is a true "jam band" album with amazing guitar playing), The Beatles, and more experimental musicians like Terje Rypdal and Steve Tibbetts, I loved the guitar's expressiveness, but turned to the sax as my vehicle for it (ironic to me now, since the sax had been the inspiration for so many of lead guitarists in the 50's and 60s). I used distortion on my Fender Rhodes and organs for a while (inspired by Deep Purple's John Lord in particular), but I was only kidding myself about how it stacked up. Imagine how psyched I was to find The Stick Two parts AND bending, vibrato, distortion.... The best of all worlds, and a really easy transition from the keyboard.
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:51 am |
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Radkon
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
Been playing drums since I was 10 and a half. It's been an amazing ride, but the Stick, well it's the Omni-instrument that makes all things possible.
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twizzle
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Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:08 am Posts: 261 Location: UK
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
The usuals - Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards. Since stick I have also started attempting drums.
I put acoustic and Electric guitars seperately as I use them differently. Electric is mostly dodgy widdling cranked loud and acoustic is mostly fingerpicking in alt tunings.
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abby
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Joined: Mon May 25, 2009 7:59 pm Posts: 31 Location: Makati City, Philippines
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
I've been playing the piano since I was a kid. Still play with it and the Stick in my band. I also do vocals
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Per Boysen
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Joined: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:05 am Posts: 2268 Location: Stockholm/Sweden
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
Started with electric guitar as a teenager. Added tenor sax a decade later. Added Alto Flute (because it is so good for electronic processing and small to travel with) another decade later as well as fretless guitar. In 2006 I got a chance to also add an EWI 4000s as I passed by San José Guitar Center in USA and was offered to get one "for the in price" (could not afford one in Sweden where I live). I would also like to own and play bass clarinet and an SG12. What have always kept me, and still keeps me, from playing all the instruments I would like to is lack of money to buy good instruments. The 12 stringed Grand Stick is my latest expansion, about four months effective playing time now since I bought it. The guitar has always been the main instrument that people hire me to play professionally but lately I have also been asked to play the EWI in a pro setting, taking on the role of "the electronician" in a band.
EDIT: Just want to add that since I wrote the above I have been able to pick up a SG12 as well. The Grand and the SG12 is a great combo for recording! But for solo concerts I'm mostly bringing the SG12, sometimes in combination with the Alto Flute.
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Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:32 am |
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ComplexI
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Joined: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:34 am Posts: 54
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
Started with the clarinet at 12 years old. Few years later moved to bass clarinet. Began for my love of everything bass (I know bass clarinet still plays on the treble clef). Switched to bass before getting my first stick which I am still trying to master!
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tyromancer
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Joined: Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:10 pm Posts: 24 Location: Redmond OR
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Re: What musical instruments did you play prior to the Stick
First at 12 was Sax. After about a year I realised it was not really for me. When I turned fourteen I got my first bass!
Four years later KCrimson Discipline came out. That same year I saw an add fo strange guitar called TheStick in a (guitar or bass) magazine. The add was the left third of a whole page. It was a big neck with ten strings and two hands on it. There was no headstock or pickup. The hands looked like they were two seperate pictures of hands on this big neck. One going one way and one the other with no way to orient your eye.
The only type said "How far can you take it"..."The Stick". That image sat like a splinter in my mind. Another six years and I jumped in ...
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