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“Requiem for Persephone” video

f1xSTRM — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:30:39 +0000

For everyone attending the FredTap concert this year, some of you may have the songbook, and Greg Howard's song from that songbook is shown in this video:

Greg Howard, also known as the Ambassador of Good Willy for the Stick Enterprises Inc and chief PR guy, is playing an introduction in front of the actual song. The introduction is the long fast ostinato in the beginning. The actual song is much more slow. He says he's made some wrong notes, but it sounds pretty good to me.

Nice work, Greg Howard, on your two-handed guitar tapping!

Stick Ambassador of Good Will?

f1xSTRM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:22:40 +0000

Greg Howard is a leading proponent of the Chapman stick. In fact, he's on the payroll and he is called the "ambassador of goodwill" and the public relations fellow.

You will never hear Greg Howard speaking enthusiastically about the Warr Guitar or the Megatar. He is an Emmet Chapman fan, all the way.

Other highly visible two-handed tapping musicians include Bob Culbertson, Stanley Jordan, and Tony Levin of the band King Crimson. Are they better players than Greg Howard? Hmmm.

Final Reminder about FredTap Saturday November 14 …

f1xSTRM — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:47:23 +0000

Greg Howard has sent out a message about Fred-Tap. He says, "Just a reminder for anyone in the DC, MD or Central/Eastern Virginia area. The FredTap Seminar and Concert are this weekend. It's not too late to
register for the seminar, and if you just want to come to the concert, it's on Saturday night."

The scheduled performers include Steve Adelson, Bill Burke, Greg Howard, the ever-fabulous Rob Martino, and according to rumor also Paul Walters.

It's called Fred-Tap because it's in Fredericksburg, and (I think, not completely sure) it's open to players of any brand of tapping instrument. Get details here: http://wavearts.com/Rob/pages/fredtap.html

Interlochen Update

f1xSTRM — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:42:01 +0000

2009 Interlochen Workshop signup extended to August 14, so sign up quick!

Over 20 signups but some room remains for those as are quick. Very quick.

New Stick Enterprises Website!

f1xSTRM — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:03:15 +0000

Director of Pubic Relations for Stick Enterprises, Greg Howard, has recently posted to the Stickwire mailing list that the Stick Enterprises folks have set up a new webpage called Learn-Chapman-Stick.com.

The two-handed tapping technique was given a turbocharge of effectiveness when Emmett Chapman, a jazz musician, raised up the tuners of his home-made guitar and discovered that hands approaching the fretboard from each side had an easier time of playing notes. Sounds kind of simple, but it hugely made the two-handed tapping technique more effective.

The content of this website is only slightly similar to the Learn-Chapman-Stick website previously developed as a prototype by competitor Mobius Megatar, which appears to have served as a model to show Emmett Chapman another way to set up a public-service website.

Mobius Megatar is not affiliated with Mr. Chapman, Mr. Howard, nor the Stick Enterprises company in any way, other than flaming admiration for the surging developments of Chapman over the years in the fields of this new playing method and unique approaches to business operation.

Howard, the public relations director, touted as their "Ambassador of Good Will", says that the website provides a new location for links about learning the Free Hands method invented by Emmett Chapman, and using this method on the two-handed tapping instruments that are manufactured by Stick Enterprises of Woodland Hills, California.

According to Howard, he hopes to get things from other people to give away, and asks that people give them things that they can give away on the side..

"I'm also hoping," said Howard, "to include a listing."

There you have it. Another advance in the field of touchstyle music.