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The Chapman Stick
Jazz musician and guitarist Emmett Chapman is credited with the innovation of 'Free Hands' tapping in guitar performance. Playing on his homemade nine-string guitar Chapman used the fingers on both hands to play across the fretboard. His unique technique led to his invention of the Chapman Stick. As an electrically amplified instrument there is no soundbox and it resembles a guitar fingerboard fitted with tuning machines at its head, with the strings terminating to a tailpiece with pickups at its base. Rather than plucking the string with one hand while fretting with the other, the electric Stick sounds notes merely by striking the string at the desired fret. With eight, ten, or twelve-string models The Stick has the ability to play bass, melody, and chords all simultaneously. When paired with a synthesizer this polyphonic chordal instrument can create spectacularly textual, rhythmic, and melodic compositions.
When discussing developments in guitar equipment and techniques with Guitar Player journalist Jas Obrecht, in October 1980, Jeff Beck stated: 'I've just recently got a Chapman Stick, but I didn't actually search for it. I saw this guy playing it in a club, and I just thought he invented it. I had no particular desire to get one, but I just happened to mention to my manager [Ernest Chapman], "This guy plays this weird stick thing really well. Let's go and see him." He went tick-tick-tick up there in his head, and went and bought one for me. So it was night. I've got to mess around with it and see if I can make any tunes.' A photo-shoot with Aaron Rapaport, likely taking place that same year, shows Beck in various poses with The Stick. Ever the innovator, looking to push the boundaries of what was possible with the guitar - or indeed in this case a guitar-like instrument - Jeff almost certainly played and experimented with The Stick in his home studio. Interviewed by Chris Gill for Japanese magazine Young Mates Music Player in 1999, he recalled that there had at one point been a tentative plan in around 1995, after the tour with Carlos Santana, 'to work with Terry and Tony Levin. It would have been very interesting to have Tony playing Stick.' It seems, however, that the Stick never made it onto any of Beck's recorded work.
Jazz musician and guitarist Emmett Chapman is credited with the innovation of 'Free Hands' tapping in guitar performance. Playing on his homemade nine-string guitar Chapman used the fingers on both hands to play across the fretboard. His unique technique led to his invention of the Chapman Stick. As an electrically amplified instrument there is no soundbox and it resembles a guitar fingerboard fitted with tuning machines at its head, with the strings terminating to a tailpiece with pickups at its base. Rather than plucking the string with one hand while fretting with the other, the electric Stick sounds notes merely by striking the string at the desired fret. With eight, ten, or twelve-string models The Stick has the ability to play bass, melody, and chords all simultaneously. When paired with a synthesizer this polyphonic chordal instrument can create spectacularly textual, rhythmic, and melodic compositions.
When discussing developments in guitar equipment and techniques with Guitar Player journalist Jas Obrecht, in October 1980, Jeff Beck stated: 'I've just recently got a Chapman Stick, but I didn't actually search for it. I saw this guy playing it in a club, and I just thought he invented it. I had no particular desire to get one, but I just happened to mention to my manager [Ernest Chapman], "This guy plays this weird stick thing really well. Let's go and see him." He went tick-tick-tick up there in his head, and went and bought one for me. So it was night. I've got to mess around with it and see if I can make any tunes.' A photo-shoot with Aaron Rapaport, likely taking place that same year, shows Beck in various poses with The Stick. Ever the innovator, looking to push the boundaries of what was possible with the guitar - or indeed in this case a guitar-like instrument - Jeff almost certainly played and experimented with The Stick in his home studio. Interviewed by Chris Gill for Japanese magazine Young Mates Music Player in 1999, he recalled that there had at one point been a tentative plan in around 1995, after the tour with Carlos Santana, 'to work with Terry and Tony Levin. It would have been very interesting to have Tony playing Stick.' It seems, however, that the Stick never made it onto any of Beck's recorded work.