My first month's progress...

[rjgoos]

I've had a 10-string Stick for four weeks, as of yesterday. I suppose I practiced about an hour a day since then.

Today, to celebrate my first month in the tap-universe, I plugged it into a mono effects pedal, and the output of that into my wife's computer, and recorded a few excerpts.

I posted the MP3 at:

http://homepage.mac.com/rjgoos

It contains an excerpt of a simple two-finger warm-up drill, and some excerpts of some folk songs.

Hey, it's pretty bad, I know...lots of mistakes, fret buzzes, hesitations, bad timing, etc., but sometimes newbies ask, "How hard is it to play a Stick?" I guess one way of answering that is, "I don't know, but I had never touched one before, and this is how far I got in four weeks..."


RJ

[Tiptannick]

For a month it's sound great !

I mean FantaStick !

[vsteele]

Very impressive. After one month with my 12 string, I was no where close to something that coesive. Hell, I still don't sound very good!! :) Keep up the good work!!!

V

[rjgoos]

vsteele wrote:

>Very impressive. After one month with my 12 string, I was no where close to something that coesive. Hell, I still don't sound very good!! :) Keep up the good work!!!<


Well, I don't know if I sound any good either. but it SURE IS FUN.

Tap/touch guitar is a riot.

I can't believe I played guitar from my 9th to 49th year without ever having heard of it.


RJ Goos


(P.S. I recorded each excerpt several times and took the best one of each, so, on the average, I am worse than the MP3 indicates)