Like I said, everyone who posted in this thread gets to own a piece of the nastiness that it's become. I honestly thought it was over with last night. I am totally disappointed.

Any chance we can just let this go now, or are we going to keep piling on and heaping more nastiness into this concept? I mean, what do we need to do to feel like we have "won" so that we can focus on, you know maybe some playing?

Staying on topic....

I think that's a great idea, for a Free Hands Friday session digging into it. And maybe there can be some discussions and perhaps demonstrations by other players at Interlochen this year. The classes and training is geared for the 5ths inverse bass tuning, but we also had an NS/Stick player last year tuned in bass fourths. I know I'll be watching what Scott does with his Mirrored 4ths and trying to learn. I know there are some power chords that you can grab across both sides of the Stick at once, and that's something that appeals to me. And I'll probably be lusting after a 12-string enough to finally get one. (I have a 10-string tuned mirrored fourths but I would really not mind a lower melody string and a higher bass string.) I still don't know how I'd tune my next Stick, if it's a 12-string.


That was a very informative article. And of course this video always deserves to be reposted:



Rocking on topic.

...everyone, no kidding? nastiness? please...



...a spoken word is faster than ten horses...



...guess, if you're alone with this...



...lets look for a preacher of indulgences...



...we?...
...who, exactly and serious?...
... mcgrahamhk ?...
... Gusset ?....
... ReyStick ?...
... The_Afro_Circus ?...
... Balt-A-Sar ?...



...concept?...?...wasn't it the question about pro and cons?...



...a discussion always results in a win-win situation, if win-loose is the answer then we have carping...



...And here are following the sparkles of the week...



...what a nice collection...

Dear Jayesskerr, dear paigan0

I'm very concerned about the personal contact in this threat. Seems that mad monk is the big bad one here. That's unfair, all against mad monk. The sixth post in this threat was my first post about pro and cons, after the fifth one: "Cons: Other Stickists." Well a joke, nothing more. Then my post (Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:43 pm). How can this provoke such an overreaction. How can you complain about "poo-pooing what we do?" ? I've never done this. Do you know my point of view, yes? Let's be sure and listen to my repetition: I didn't favoured any tuning, I just wrote "tapping technique stays beyond the used tuning" this is my point of view, and perhaps my crime. Sorry, I can't apologize. You asked for the pros and cons of fifths and fourths, my answer was: there are no pros and cons. There was never the slightest speech, against all distressed imputations, that you, mad monk or sombody else using fourths were fools, once again all of you are free to choose tunings, free to search the ALL-IS-MUCH-EASIER-TUNING-OF -THE-BIMILLENARY, and all others are free to clap more or less enthusiastically.
About you-tube vids, poor situation for mad monk, how can he demonstrate his power of sight reading with a presence on you-tube? How purely? Where is sight reading asked, what was your last amusement in a concert with the title Mr.DocTrp's great sight reading show? I prefer concerts without sight reading, even in parts of. What are you doing with a vid from mad monk? Plain and simple spoken, in this context you didn't have any honorable use for it, like the whole thumb-up-or-down-society which can at the best distinguish between piano and forte.
I deeply commiserate mad monk. He is not arrogant, no, he is driven to the battle, seems to be a victim of the power of mortification and searches in the stick community something we can not give him.
I've never titled someone as a box checker! Just slow down, one step at a time. I've never even claimed that box checker is negative. All this happens in your brains and only there. Check out the color of your glasses, please do it, unlasting.
I'm not your enemy, I'm not an adversary for anyone, here not and not in the rest of the world, with the unboastful exclusion of politicians rustling my money from my banc account or spitting on the dignity of human beings.

Balt-A-Sar

Absolutely not taking away from the rest of your post but I just want to say that this line is pure poetry and I could not agree with you more on it.

Balt-a-sar, I'm not sure what exactly you're saying here and to whom exactly, although addressed directly to me and Scott, and it seems like you're addressing a variety of people and their points. And Scott asked us all to let it go, and get back to rocking, so I've let it all go.

Be excellent to each other. That's all I ask, and demand, and try to model. And preach.

And then, Rock it out. Be excellent; rock it out.

Let's carry on, wayward sons! (sorry Claire! Had to make the reference work).

So I don’t need a lawyer...?
Your tantrum was the most childish and inappropriate performance we’ve ever had here, and it proves my point about the cliquishness and narcissism that makes this site little better than a Stick Owner’s Club. Too bad for everyone.

Mad Monk.

Who dis? I thought you were taking your own advice?

So........

What if you tuned a grand Stick uncrossed. Bass on the melody side and the opposite.

4ths both sides. I always wanted to try this. Mirrored 4th always confused me. Obviously ergonomically you do not have the open hand reach over, but both hands would be doing (basically) what I know, just on different sides.

Thoughts???

Brett

High end in the middle? Having trouble picturing what you're thinking.