Posted on December 10th, 2009 by f1xSTRM
Traktor Topaz presents music lesson demonstrating the difference between the US ‘Latin’ rhythm, and the true Bossa Nova rhythm from Brazil, for any Mobius Megatar, Warr Guitar, or Chapman Stick player. Includes example song.
Thanks to YouTube – katodesu100’s Channel for choosing Traktor’s True Bossa Rhythm lesson, and demo song!
The typical westernized ‘latin rhythm’ we’ve heard [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2009 by f1xSTRM
“When a bass-player or guitar-player first encounters a dedicated two-handed tapping instrument, his past training predisposes him to think of problems.
“And perhaps these problems he thinks about do not really exist …”
In this interesting article in the ownline ArticlesBase directory, Traktor Topaz shares some interesting insights from the point of view of a bass player [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2009 by f1xSTRM
From LinkFilter.Net
“Does anyone remember the Chapman Stick? This is like that, from the 21st century digital age.
It looks like something played by the alien musicians in the bar in Star Wars. It can be made to sound like it too.
This is the Eigenharp – described by its developers as “the most expressive electronic musical instrument [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2009 by f1xSTRM
Congratulations to Steve Adelson of New Yawk, for the recent publication of ‘Ultimate Stick,’ new instructional material for Chapman Stick, Warr Guitar, Mobius Megatar and other two-handed tapping instruments tuned in the ‘Inverted-Fifths’ tuning popularized by Emmett Chapman in the 1970’s.
This is a further contribution from Steve Adelson, whose Stickology educational books was published last [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2009 by f1xSTRM
On the Mobius Megatar main website (http://megatar.com) you can now see a small blue button on the upper right-hand side. It says ‘RSS Podcast’.
Click on this button and the Mobius Megatar Touchstyle Podcast page opens up. It launched with MP3 songs, music videos, and an interview with a two-handed tapping (touchstyle) musician named John Hall.
Songs [...]
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