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 on a thousand songs, and played slowly on a thousand ballads. And yet ... it's not authentic. In this simple video, Traktor explains the difference between the rhythm we've all heard and the *true* bossa rhythm -- both the bass and the rhythm-guitar parts -- as can be easily played via two-handed tapping technique on any specialty instrument used for touchstyle music.

Learn how it's done, and then hear a sweet bossa nova tune demonstrating the method ...

"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 encountering a two-handed tapping instrument for the first time.

Read the complete article here --

ArticlesBase: "Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar -- How to Approach Them"

"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 ever made". One of my colleagues calls it more simply "a sci-fi bassoon".

This is a further contribution from Steve Adelson, whose Stickology educational books was published last year by the Mel Bay company.

Congratulations, Steve, for making two-handed tapping and specialty tapping instruments better known to the world at large!

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 and videos feature Lombo Sound Project (Portugal), Traktor Topaz (northern California), Stephen Lemaire (France), Jorge Pescara (Brazil), Karo Trio (Belgium), Fabian Romero (Ecuador), Dino Haak Collective (Seattle and Austria), Ernie Jackson (New York),and Wolfgang Daiss (Germany).

Drop in and tune in. Bet your toes will start a-tapping. Two-handed tapping and ten-toes tapping. It's a good thing.

1st Place to Look:

Right here on the Comparison Website. Classified ads are mixed right in with the other articles, and you can place a 'Want to Buy" classified ad of your own. It's free!

2nd Place to Look:

The other place where you can find a Chapman Stick for sale is EBay. Sometimes you can make a Chapman Stick purchase (or Warr Guitars or Mobius Megatar) on EBay. Sometimes there are Chapman Sticks for sale there, and sometimes not.

Let's see how your luck is holding today ...

Want to see Expanded List of Tapping Instrument Auctions?

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No account? No problem!

It costs nothing to sign up to use EBay, and it's handy as can be. Easy to sign up, too. It's just the usual registration, as you can see here:

            Easy Sign-Up for EBay Here

Sign up with EBay! It's easy and it's fun!

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.

More to Follow. Will still have classified ads (free) for people wanting to buy or sell any brand of tapping instruments, plus free newsletter, videos and blog postings about two-handed tapping music, and lots, lots, more.

More to follow.

Would you be surprised to discover the Mobius Megatar instrument has features and sound going beyond the Stick? Compare and decide for yourself ...

Stick Enterprises, the manufacturer of the Chapman Stick (TM) tapping instrument has instruments with seven to twelve strings.

But so as to compare apples to apples, we'll consider only the instruments with the full twelve strings, and that narrows it down considerably. We'll compare the only Stick Enterprises instrument with the full twelve strings, the Grand Stick, with the simplest Mobius Megatar instrument, The TrueTapper Eclipse.

You may be surprised to discover how impressively the inexpensive TrueTapper Eclipse compares with the Grand Stick, when compared feature by feature.

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