Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on a Chapman Stick

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Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on a C...

I have just seen what could well be the most amazing flamenco fingerstyle performance that I have ever witnessed on youtube! The guy is playing a Chapman Stick which I have never seen before but the multi-layered sound is quite beautiful.

Have a look here: , and tell me if you agree.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 27 2012 22:24:33

Ricardo

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

Sorry don't agree. Malagueña Lecuona is Spanish cheese not flamenco

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 27 2012 22:31:15

Miguel de Maria

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

I have run into that guy here in Phoenix and also up in Edmonds, Washington. Has a cool jazzy album, I think it's called Cafe San Francisco. Yes, here's his website. http://stickmusic.com/ The first time I saw him, I had just run into George Benson for the nth time.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 27 2012 23:19:10

jshelton5040

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Don't show that video to Paco de Lucia. His next album will feature it.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 0:02:55

terry70

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

I personally don't like the tone at all, sounds like a midi. The playing - pretty good, I guess - but decidedly not flamenco.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 0:37:25

Miguel de Maria

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to jshelton5040)

Didn't he get that stuff out of the way when he did that South American thing with his brother?

By the way, John, I was at a party last weekend and all the guitarists were fighting over the blanca you made for me.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 5:21:55

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

La Malagueña.....Flamenco version!

www.btinternet.com/~flamenco/PdL1969.mp3

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 6:48:45

mark indigo

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

quote:

the most amazing flamenco fingerstyle performance

like all those "amazing flamenco guitarist" youtube vids that are spanishy-style flamingo cheese

he's very good at it, but it's horrible!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 9:50:14

jshelton5040

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Miguel de Maria

By the way, John, I was at a party last weekend and all the guitarists were fighting over the blanca you made for me.

thanks for letting me know Miguel. I hope nobody was hurt

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 14:07:54

BarkellWH

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

This is not flamenco. While his playing on this instrument has a certain capacity to "amuse," it belongs more in the genre of cheap parlor tricks that might go over at a party attended by frat boys looking forward to their first backpacking trip to Spain.

Cheers,

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 15:28:50

ToddK

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

He should get together with this guy and have a Fakemenco Festival.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 16:12:30

estebanana

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ricardo)

quote:

Sorry don't agree. Malagueña Lecuona is Spanish cheese not flamenco

I prefer an aged manchego or simply some no name goat milk cheese from a small pueblo.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 16:31:12

estebanana

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

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like all those "amazing flamenco guitarist" youtube vids that are spanishy-style flamingo cheese

Hmm, the mention of Spanish cheese twice in one thread makes me hungry.

nom, nom ,nom , nom

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 16:36:11

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to estebanana)

..the username is fingerstyle and talking about amazing fingerstyle...made 1 post ...this video...

I have seen it a few times before here...it just dosent pay to post a video of yourself here pretending u are some neutral party who likes it ..to see the reaction....u end up getting your feelings hurt...its better to say this is me...people would be tactful

quote:

I have just seen what could well be the most amazing flamenco fingerstyle performance that I have ever witnessed on youtube! The guy is playing a Chapman Stick which I have never seen before but the multi-layered sound is quite beautiful.
and tell me if you agree.

probably the best one i have ever seen too...its the only one

personally i think its fascinating ...nice enough sound...a nice novelty

That aside..

I dont understand why anyone picks up this instrument when its just trying to copy the guitar (from what i am seeing), and play stuff for guitar on it and dosent have as many benefits, its not a practical, not as esthetically pleasing... (like a skinny woman with no breasts...or a giraffe penis) not as versatile, not as established, not as romantic, probably not as easy ...the guitar is a the perfect design...i dont see the point other than to be different...for the sake of being different...guitar is king of instruments (or up there)...this is the type on instrument u expect to see on the side of the road busking as a novelty..people are fascinated, curious ...but eventually put a coin in the bag and walk away...

i am sorry fingerstyle if this is you, not looking to offend you...had you said that before of course i would have been more gentle and tactful about it

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 19:09:03

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)

quote:

I have seen it a few times before here...it just dosent pay to post a video of yourself here pretending u are some neutral party who likes it ..to see the reaction....u end up getting your feelings hurt...its better to say this is me...people would be more gentle

Exactly Flo!

Like, sometimes I get emails from a "friend" of Dr. Nkumna Abongo from Nigeria asking me if he can "borrow" my bank account to get £10,000,000 out of his country.

Why doesn't Dr. Abongo just contact me himself?

That kinda stuff always makes me suspicious, myself.

Hey...thought some new folk here might have commented on the 21 year old Paco de Lucia's Malagueña!

You won't hear it anywhere else!

(and not really "cheesy" methinks?")

Recorded straight off the TV set in 1969.

(He looked that real "spotty" way like the pic on "La Guitarra Fabulosa...."

)

But he played not too bad

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 19:42:20

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

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hy doesn't Dr. Abongo just contact me himself?

oh good old Abo...i told him if he gets my bank account back to +0 rather than in the minus what it is now...he can do whatever he likes...i must the the only guy the Nigerian scam wont work on ...even with my bank account number and password

how the hell did they get £ in Nigeria ? why not $ ?

have you meet Miss.Amanda Rose yet ?
its the new one

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Good Day?

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable
Bank Draft
of $500,000,00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since for a
couple of weeks now. Then I went to the bank to confirm if the draft has
expired or getting near to the expiring date and Dr. Wilson the
Director United
Bank for Africa told me that before the draft will get to your hand that it
will expire..Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $85.00 US
Dollars for the Security Keeping Fee. I would have paid that but they said no
because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 19:47:35

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)

Hey Flo,

Change your name from "Florian" to "Goodluck".

Sounds kinda kool somehow...

"Hi... my name's Belinda"
"Howdy there babe...I'm Goodluck"

BTW..I bet the guy's real name is Brian or Cecil but he just changed it and look what it did for him!

LOL!

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 19:55:31

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

I am winning so much money and free subscriptions to Viagra on the net its crazy

and so many women want to meet me !!

maybe i should be called Mr Lucky

why just this week i won
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$500,000,00

and

quote:

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no Larsan is not a surprise at all :-)

people ask me what i do, i tell em i am a professional winner

...i cant believe someone sits down and thinks up this weak scams ...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 19:58:47

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)

cos you got no stiff competition there man.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:00:41

ralexander

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

I think the stick, being a strange looking and sounding instrument, is best suited to a more "out there" musical environment ala Tony Levin in King Crimson. Years ago I jammed a few funky tunes on stage with a stick player, they can be a lot of fun in the right context.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:04:07

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to ralexander)

Wasn't a clarinet always known as a "stick"?

This is getting confusing.

Mind you, didn't Rowan Atkinson refer to someone once as " a player of the pink oboe"?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:12:24

BarkellWH

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

Change your name from "Florian" to "Goodluck".

Hey, Ron,

Coincidental to your and Flo's encounters with Nigerian scams, and your suggestion that Flo change his name to "Goodluck," the current president of Nigeria is named Goodluck Jonathan. I don't know if that was what you were alluding to, but it's a fact.

Cheers,

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:21:37

BarkellWH

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

Wasn't a clarinet always known as a "stick"?

In the States we referred to it as a "licorice stick."

Cheers,

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:23:35

srshea

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Ron.M

Wasn't a clarinet always known as a "stick"?

Licorice stick. On account of it being black, see?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:23:48

srshea

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to BarkellWH)

Aw, man, you beat me by 13 seconds.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:25:04

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

apparently its like a whole other world the chapman stick world, quite fascinating...just did some google searching...

this is their like their Paco...cause why use one stick instrument only 10 strings when u can have 20...honestly

...forget the wood and frets...just give this guy a sea of strings...its quicker to learn guitar than change the strings

I am sorry i am being very immature about a different instrument

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:25:15

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)

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ause why use one stick instrument only 10 strings when u can have 20...honestly ...forget the wood and frets...just give this guy a sea of strings...its quicker to learn guitar than change the strings

Hmmm...still sounds a bit thin to me somehow....

Needs a "Vocoder" to get the balance right IMO.

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:37:26

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to fingerstyle)

i hope fingerstyle has got a sense of humor

sorry man...just some silly fun...feel free to make fun of the guitar or me or whatever you like...

paco's 70's comb-over ?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:43:39

Ron.M

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Florian)

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i hope fingerstyle has got a sense of humor

Oh...you mean when you've run out of Viagra?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2012 20:51:12

Florian

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RE: Amazing Classical Fingerstyle on... (in reply to Ron.M)

hahaha

that joke would work better if i was a woman...or the username was handstyle

ok i am gonna stop cause i feel terrible ..

a million apologies fingerstyle i got carried away with jokes

now i am just asking for a punch in the mouth from stickman of fingerstyle man or whatever

back to the topic and to leave it on a high note...the sound of the champion stick is nice enough and interesting enough

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