Megatar 1
Posted on December 20th, 2009 by f1xSTRM
accompying for a local dancer. The instrument is a Megatar ( www.megatar.com ) The songs are from "lets face the music and dance" (I. Berlin), something somthing in7/8 bossanova, Prelude nc min. (Bach BWV847)
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5/5 for Mtar(d) performance, except some jumpy notes, 6/5 for the dancer ^^
Very cool. I’m considering that very instrument and tuning. It’s nice to see it in action.
You should bring the kid along to shows with a trampoline!
I can joke because I have a rugrat that decided to play my NS with a ball point pen. Nice Booger action at around 1:20.
Very cool man.
Yes, i noticed that despickable abomination too! He will be so proud when he gets older, and i tell him he tastet his boogger on youtube!
Nice playing, Gary. Very tasteful.
Nice tune, and I love that you busted out the Prelude in Cm, thats no easy task! Post more man!
Very nice Gary !!
wow man thats some amazing sound out of that thing! Nice playing too, I bet that beast of a guitar has such a rich full sound, the camera wont do it justice!
so is it basically a chapman stick?
Yep, but with wider stringspacing, tapered neck and different tuning, different sound, but yes it’s basicly the same as a chapman stick. Also its half the price and one 10th of the delivery time! Very important factors!
awesome. i’ve been curious about chapman stick, but with this thing it may be reality (some day when i have money miracles released in my pocket).
But i’m still working on trying to get multi-finger tapping down on a regular guitar.
Well i dont get to practice a lot these days with all that immobilization annointing going on!
i hear that! I’m so whacked I can’t practice…I know I should (especially since I’m in a band) but I get so whacked that I don’t even think about it!
Uncrossed 4ths?
Nevermind, I’m trippin’ ….
no. you r right. uncrossed 4ths it is
How’s that been working for you? I’m in inverted fifths, and I haven’t really tried any other tunings yet.
I like fourts in the bass side because it gives more melodic possibilities. Also i like lots of strins on the bass side (at elast 7 strings), so that i can choose between wide chords or closed chords up in the high strings. You cant really play closed chords in fifths. If you want to experiment with fourths, you should also check out rob martions tuning, where the bass side is 4ths but mirrored like on a chapman stick. It gives some nice positions and possibilities.
How long have you been playing and how easy was it to learn? Nice vid btw. 5/5, especially for the dancer
Had it for a cpl of years by then, i guess. Its easy to learn in many ways. You have to get over some initial barriers the first week or two, at least i did. I think thats why many ppl try a tapper and immidiatly think its not for them. As soon as you get used to the weirdness of twohanded tapping and understand how to produce a good sound, it really gets easy to learn since you can do a lot with less effort. But to play bach inventions is hard and to play chords and melody is a breeze.
I’m gonna get a truetapper storm. I want an uncrossed tuning, but I also want to be able to use and octaver to allow arpeggiating across more than 6 strings on certain songs, so I’m going to get the ‘bass bottom’ tuning in reverse.
makes sense. You wont regret going “normal”, instead of the weirder crossed tunings. The megatar gets wider upwards on the fretboard so crossed gets more and more silly!
I would also tune the melody side down a step, having both sides exactly one octave apart, B E A D G C. I personally think tuning up to D on the melody side is a littlebit “strained”!
Smokin’!
Love the way you play Gary.
Youre too nice Ernie!
The choregraphy is absolutely genius! never seen so good and natural dance… And I like the playing toooOOOOOOOOOO
haha the booger kills me every time lol