Learning the Chapman Stick (Railboard) - First day realizations
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A number of tips and tricks to get started more easily with the Chapman Stick or Railboard.
* first fret and tuning pitches
* tuning the stick in the middle, a fifth above
* grabbing hold of the stick with the belt hook and strap
* positioning the stick relative to your body
* standard guitar jack mono use
* play sitting with a loose second belt
I've played these for about 23 years or so. I originally found one used, then discovered Emmett Chapman and Stick Enterprises were only 40 minutes away. I brought in the stick to get it set up, and Emmett realized I knew nothing, and gave me basic lesson, right on the spot. Completely cleared up my erroneous ideas about the touch used to sound the strings.
Is he still in Glendale CA?
@@deirdre108 Emmett passed away in November of 2021, sadly.
I've had my railoard since Jan 2016 and ive never had to tune it. Amazing.
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The tip about a loose 2nd belt to play sitting down with is easily the best advice I've heard for learning the stick. Thanks :-)
Emmett came up with it, I wore his belt briefly in his studio back in 2010. A very Cool dude if you can ever meet him.
Excellent, intelligent, wonderful. Thank you!
great video, very candid, much appreciated, i want one.
Thanks for the advice to us noobs. I just got a used polycarbonate Stick and found this all very useful. Cheers!
Maybe you should write a quick start guide, great tips and thanks for putting it out there!
Very helpful info! Been wondering about all those things! Planning to get a railboard Stick in a couple weeks and super excited. Hope you’re having fun!
So much I never knew! Thank you. I’m thinking about one for the future. I would like to play some ambient tracks and I’m a bass player so I thought it would be a nice transition to a more wide range of expression. It looks though to be very labor intensive
wow. thanks! I would have had no idea about the lack of open strings!
Pull offs?
Great help this video. I'm getting in to this too. Thank you
Thank you for honestly reporting from a novice view.
Choirs wil love the chapman stick
NO ONBOARD TUNER.🤯????? MINDBOGGLING 🎶😆
Very nice, thanks!
Hi Geert, with regards to tuning, what works (for me) is to keep your reference notes near to where your playing hand will be. So on the bass side I tune at the seventh fret (G) and on the 12th fret for the melody side (F#). At the end of the day it's what ever works best for you. As for tuning I started on classic tuning and have stayed with that ever since, it just works. Enjoy the journey!
Thanks Jason, that's similar to how I'm tuning now. Mostly on the 7th fret though. My initial confusion was that compared to a guitar there are no open strings, so the first fret is like the nut on a guitar neck. To my mind that was initially "one fret off", so I tuning everything a half note wrong :-)
It's all clear now though.
Thanks, have been looking at these multi-string devices, this is very helpful.
I will sell the Rick 360-12 and get one of the Chapman guitars.
Nice glow linear inlays, Geet! I lay those in at SE. :) Great video.
thank you
Which tuning preference would you choose for classical? Thinking of purchasing a Raiboard and morphing from a piano
Karl Schroeder I'm a total Stick newbie, it's probably best to ask that is the Stick forums or with Stick enterprises themselves
Thanks for your prompt response. The forums were great source.I ordered my Rail yesterday
Please continue to make videos the Rail is the stick that I am interested in. Are you still happy with it ? What do you think about the 12 string models ?
Dennis Gaffney I plan on recording more, just been very busy. Still happy with the Railboard, I've never played a 12 string stick so I can't comment on those.
Maybe you can take over for Tony Levin someday soon :) What is the string tension like compared with a traditional electric guitar? Never tried one.
A lot looser than you would expect. You can pretty easily bend up a whole step from anywhere past the third or fourth fret.
Are you Still Playing the 'Stick?
On and off
So what's this model weight?
The railboard is a LOT lighter than the Rosewood one that I bought.
BTW, Have you seen the Marcodi Music Harpejji?
Yeah, it's somewhere on my list. Lucky for me it take up quite a bit of horizontal space, I don't know where I would put it ;-)
How well does it mute open strings? I hear some string noise on some videos on RUclips.
oh Yeah, nirvana bassis play chapman stick
play come as you are pls lol