To start off the new year right, here is a fourteen minute piano/Stick duet. The Stick is a 12-string Bamboo model with PASV4 pickups recorded through a Line 6 Helix. Both tracks were improvised in one take. Thanks for listening!

http://jeremycubert.bandcamp.com/track/larger-than-life

Very cool. I am contemplating picking up a Helix; I dig yer tone, man! Now you are able to run both sides of the Stick into that via the Aux in right? And then create a chain for each side, correct?

Thanks! Oddly, the Aux input is the wrong impedance and, unlike the returns, cannot be changed. I use the return as an input and all is well. I am very happy with the Helix.


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Jacubert, I absolutely love this kind of one-take improv, and you sustain the 14 minutes throughout with your awesome piano playing and Sticking. I felt that the majority of the attention and interest was in the piano--and the Stick playing seemed to be reacting to the piano, which I'm assuming came first.

I started writing down times that I liked what was going on the best. Most of the high-interest moments to me seemed to come regularly on every 2-minute intervals or so. I just wrote down times as I was listening every time I thought things were really cooking, so my many highlights (purely subjectively to me of course) were the following times (approximate):
2:00, 4:00, 4:40, 5:00, 5:40, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00 (Bass! Only here?), 8:00, 9:00-ish (melody guitar line is melodic), 9:26, 10:00-11:15 (my favorite, particularly right at 10:00), 12:45 (kicking! Solo-ish)...and we fade out.

Sorry I can't be more specific than just noting the times that I especially liked. You're an awesome piano player (that's my background and I'm a new Stickist, so I'm focusing on what I'm best at) and this was a nice improv jam. I appreciate you doing this and recording this! Not just because it was good, and you're good, but because it validates this longform of expression to me (meaning, I'd do a lot more of it if I actually thought I could get people to listen to it.) Cheers! Good job!

I really appreciate the comments paigan0. You are correct! The primary instrument here is the piano. I plan to flip it on the next piece and make the Stick the primary instrument. For a great long form Stick improvisation, check out Greg Howard's Water on the Moon.

One way I keep myself from falling asleep while improvising is to try to come up with a theme I can come back to - a home base. This helps keep the different sections connected to each other and provides the listener with something recognizable, I look forward to hearing what you come up with!

Thanks.

Jeremy

Brao Jeremy, I love that a lot. I like to do the same but never published on my side. Well...I don't think so...lol. First, I love improvisation...and what you do is really good. Then we can feel the interaction between the 2 instruments...congratulations...

Thanks Alain! You should post your improvisations.


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way cool! love that stick tone. really like the quality of the recording and the simplicity of the duet. great meter ,you kept it fresh the whole time. nice piece .something to be proud of.

Thanks megatapper!


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Yeah, this is excellent. As usual.