STICK® inventor and creator of the "parallel hands" tapping method, EMMETT CHAPMAN shows a fully developed style in this 1983 clip from the "SOUNDBOARD TV" DVD #5
Finally! Emmett is a great player as well as a major force driving the tapping revolution. I first saw him perform in 1970 with Tim Buckley on guitar, a drummer playing timpanis and a bass trombone. What a revalation.
Emmett Chapman is a very old friend of my parents! His band used to rehearse in our living room back in the 1950's! He, Yuta and my parents moved from Michigan together! GREAT & talented man who inspired me @ a young age to get into music!
You see Emmett at the height of his powers in this video - this is where you see his genius shine through. Even today will all the thousands of composers & peformers on this instrument very few people can match the tonal & harmonic depth he brings both in his compositions & peformance.
I saw him play the Stick in the summer of 1976 in Rhinebeck NY. Two years later I interviewed him at his home in Laurel Canyon. He was building instruments in his garage (or maybe prototyping, I don't recall). I believe he was working or consulting with Stanley Jordan at the time.
Man! If youve got the money to get one, DO IT! this is the most beautiful instrument ive ever seen or heard, and its very fun, and very easy to learn. If your a pianist, or a guitar player, you'll make the transition very fast. And as most guitarists know, only YOU can teach you. good luck :)
Sounds just like a Clavinet! All these years listening to dudes like Tony Levin play Stick, it never dawned on me how similar in concept and sound the Stick is to a Clavinet...just, played "directly" instead of via keys.
Emmett Chapman expanded the guitar family in the 1980s (or late 1970s?) with the 'stick', and here he shows he can play it, with an improvisation on 'Greensleeves' and a funky/fusion jam piece.
Wow, I never knew these things existed until tonight! Was watching a video of Liquid Tension Experiment's Acid Rain live and the bassist had one. I was like WTF is that?! What an amazing instrument. I wanna learn how to play one!
I have to agree with above and below. You can have someone teach you technique - but until you learn to adapt what you learn to your own strengths and weaknesses - and blend what you have been taught into your own style; in essence teaching yourself - you will not make MUSIC with a guitar - though you may play lenty of songs.
I'd really love to hear some baroque classical music played on a Chapman Stick. Some Bach intentions or something. I bet it would sound really awesome. Does anybody know of any?
Amazing musician. There are still untouched frontiers for fretted instruments and music in general and this is proof. Stanley Jordan is good but Emmett is easily as good or better.
Don't like the phasing on this...this instrument is about tone...and I'd like to know what a great amp would be to go with this..that doesn't distort the lower notes...and gives that full bass sound....
Finally! Emmett is a great player as well as a major force driving the tapping revolution. I first saw him perform in 1970 with Tim Buckley on guitar, a drummer playing timpanis and a bass trombone. What a revalation.
Emmett Chapman is a very old friend of my parents! His band used to rehearse in our living room back in the 1950's! He, Yuta and my parents moved from Michigan together! GREAT & talented man who inspired me @ a young age to get into music!
fantastic!!! hermoso maestro, great music , beautiful melodic line!!
If you haven't found them yet, look for Bob Culbertson's videos. He has some Mozart and Bach pieces and they do sound really nice on the Stick.
Damm!!! Hes shredding on the left hand...thats so god damm hard!
..Is beautiful!! Amazing!!!
I did not know, that Emmett Chapman was not only the inventor of the Chapman Stick but that he is also an excellent and virtuos musician. Just great!
You see Emmett at the height of his powers in this video - this is where you see his genius shine through. Even today will all the thousands of composers & peformers on this instrument very few people can match the tonal & harmonic depth he brings both in his compositions & peformance.
Wish there was a video of Daniel Kane from San Francisco. The first i saw playing a Chapman Stick. Nice guy.. This is great also.
I saw him play the Stick in the summer of 1976 in Rhinebeck NY. Two years later I interviewed him at his home in Laurel Canyon. He was building instruments in his garage (or maybe prototyping, I don't recall). I believe he was working or consulting with Stanley Jordan at the time.
Man! If youve got the money to get one, DO IT!
this is the most beautiful instrument ive ever seen or heard, and its very fun, and very easy to learn.
If your a pianist, or a guitar player, you'll make the transition very fast.
And as most guitarists know, only YOU can teach you.
good luck :)
Thank you sir! I'm waiting the arrival of my Grand! You are a higher being!
Sounds just like a Clavinet! All these years listening to dudes like Tony Levin play Stick, it never dawned on me how similar in concept and sound the Stick is to a Clavinet...just, played "directly" instead of via keys.
Emmett Chapman expanded the guitar family in the 1980s (or late 1970s?) with the 'stick', and here he shows he can play it, with an improvisation on 'Greensleeves' and a funky/fusion jam piece.
Wow, I never knew these things existed until tonight! Was watching a video of Liquid Tension Experiment's Acid Rain live and the bassist had one. I was like WTF is that?! What an amazing instrument. I wanna learn how to play one!
The master himself!
@TheCathyLeach= Funny thing. The 1984 movie Dune, introduced me to him.
Well he invented the Stick before any of Stanley's albums were released, so probably.
Late 70's
Wow! If that doesn't inspire you, nothing will...
MAKES IT LOOK EASY!
I have to agree with above and below. You can have someone teach you technique - but until you learn to adapt what you learn to your own strengths and weaknesses - and blend what you have been taught into your own style; in essence teaching yourself - you will not make MUSIC with a guitar - though you may play lenty of songs.
@Bluplirst Yes there is - perhaps a stick minus phaser :)
I'm sure he'd make it sing. Stanley Clark is amazing.
0:00 to 0:50 sounds like don of the slums n FF7
I'd really love to hear some baroque classical music played on a Chapman Stick. Some Bach intentions or something. I bet it would sound really awesome. Does anybody know of any?
a stick without a phaser.
Amazing musician. There are still untouched frontiers for fretted instruments and music in general and this is proof.
Stanley Jordan is good but Emmett is easily as good or better.
Was he a little ahead of Stanley Jordan?!
It reminds me a bit like The Mahavishnu orchestra
Of course he's gonna know how to play it....he invented it.
Awesome though.
make it 10
Don't like the phasing on this...this instrument is about tone...and I'd like to know what a great amp would be to go with this..that doesn't distort the lower notes...and gives that full bass sound....