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Carbon
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Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:05 am Posts: 317
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My First Stick Piece
Greetings! I have now played the 10-String Grand for little less than 4 months, constantly recording interesting bits and pieces (have over 4 hours of stuff now). About a month and a half ago as the summer ended I made a choice that I have to start making a full composition. As interesting all the small ideas that I recorded were, nobody else even knew what I was doing. As this is my first piece with the Chapman Stick, I wanted to be with just the one instrument to explore and familiarize myself with its possibilities - thus a solo piece. Now, here it is 1,5 months of practicing and recording later, hope you like it: http://www.kaspartorn.eu/audio/KasparTo ... -09-11.mp3The hardest part for me as a guitar player is two hand independence. So, most of the piece is relying on interdependence instead.
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kevin-c
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Joined: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:57 pm Posts: 2222 Location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Hey man, that was awesome! 5 months in too. Great sounding stick. Me thinks you are going to be a great player..
cheers, kev
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:31 am |
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Carbon
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Hi Kevin! I'm glad you liked. Hoping/working on that "great player" part
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:14 am |
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randy
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Re: My First Stick Piece
I'm glad no one recorded what I did after my first 5 months!
Sounds great.
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:41 am |
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Brett Bottomley
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:01 am Posts: 1767 Location: North Haven, Connecticut USA
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Carbon. What was your background before the stick.
That was just great playing and great music I don't care if you've been playing 6 months or 6 years. You my friend are a wonderful musician.
Well done Brett
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earthgene
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Quote: Re: My First Stick Piece I'm glad no one recorded what I did after my first 5 months!
I agree with Randy, we early stuff was on an ancient Stick with rusty strings. Although I do like having a sort of diary of progress, so keep recording, it's working. I really like this format for you and envy that you are able to compose your own pieces and get them recorded. Don't make us wait another 5 months for the next one.
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Carbon
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Thanks a lot Randy, Brett and Gene! My background is in playing guitar for twenty years, almost 15 years of it in a band. Also composing for the same amount of time. You can check out my band stuff on Bandcamp: http://kantorvoy.bandcamp.com/And my ego trip on my webpage: http://www.kaspartorn.eu/The recording actually doesn't give a completely accurate image of my live stick playing skills. I can play the piece through, but there will always be some mistakes, dead notes, rhythmic wavering etc here and there. The recording is made in sections. I'm usually a slow composer, but I'm working on it. I promise, no five month delivery time for the next one
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:44 am |
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JRJ
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Re: My First Stick Piece
Performing and recording are two different art forms. It is as hard to master both as it is to master either A very wonderful presentation on both fronts for sure I am curious how you got that arpeggio synth sound in the beginning? It sounds Stick generated and if it is, it would be a very fun effect to play with . Tell us your secret... `J`
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:44 pm |
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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: My First Stick Piece
I like the musical vision coming through in this piece.
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Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:51 pm |
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Carbon
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Re: My First Stick Piece
JRJ wrote: I am curious how you got that arpeggio synth sound in the beginning? It sounds Stick generated and if it is, it would be a very fun effect to play with . Tell us your secret... EDIT: Forgot... there is also some slight chorusing and rotary speaker emulation. The secret is that there is no secret There are no special effects other than reverb and a slight delay through the entire song with the same settings. The intro part is played uncrossed, all the rest is crossed. No synths. The specific character of that part is due to the fact that both hands occasionally play the same notes, I guess. I might notate the piece if I have time.
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Last edited by Carbon on Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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