Chapman Stick - The Day After Tomorrow

If you are keen to play guitar, there are many guitar and bass courses and they're easy to find, but wait!

What if it were possible to make music on bass strings and guitar strings ... ?

Take a moment to picture a 12 string instrument --not a normal 12 string guitar -- but rather twelve strings set with six bass strings and six guitar strings, side by side.

Or imagine if a person could learn to play guitar melodies simply by touching the string on the fret? With no need to strum or pick the strings? This is what tapping instruments, likethe Chapman Stick, the Warr Guitar, and the Mobius Megatar two-handed tapping bass are all about. As long as you use a sensible learning method,it can be far easier and quicker than to learn electric bass guitar or normal guitar.

Although Jimmie Webster and others played by tapping in the 50's, a southern California guitarist named Emmet Chapman actually made it known, and with the use of both hands tapping on the strings as a new method, and his original custom electric guitar designed for this method of playing guitar, the touchstyle method is becoming more and more accepted in the world at large.

Try this: Search on YouTube for "Chapman Stick YouTube" and "Megatar" and I think you'll discover many outstanding videos by King Crimson's Tony Levin, Rob Martino, Bob Culbertson, Jan Laurenz, Traktor Topaz, and Jorge Pescara to discover a truly new way for learning using two-handed tapping as your playing method.

Do you suppose you'd like this method? Time will tell.

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Additional information can be found here —

EzineArticles article entitled "The Chapman Stick — Two-Handed Tapping on Steroids."

A similar article on hubPages called "Chapman Stick - Tidal Wave of the Future?"