Ten Happy Fingers
I’ve been practicing a lot lately, which is always enjoyable. If I didn’t have to work I’d practice four hours a day. The current focus of my effort is to economize the motion of both hands and fingers. I’m also putting in a lot of time on two-handed tapping. It’s not as much fun on a guitar or bass. I would love to get a Warr Guitar or a Chapman Stick, but they’re both out of my price range. So I’m doing my tapping on the instruments at hand. It’s a good exercise for counterpoint and definitely is a mental puzzle.
I spent a good few hours on fretless bass yesterday, working out some phrasing technique and continuing my analysis of Mick Karn’s bass lines. The man is a most complete stylist on the instrument and his distinctive playing is one of the reasons I was drawn to fretless.
And at some point I need to get back to practicing keyboards too.
Ten fingers. Too few hours.
Just a reminder from Mobius Megatar … as you and I have discussed in the past, if you’re considering a Chapman Stick but would like to save some money, plus get additional features, like Buzz Feiten, tone controls, dual truss-rods, and other things that you can’t get on a Chapman Stick, then for about half the price, the TrueTapper Eclipse or Dragon will give you everything and more. We’ve spoken before. If you wish, we can speak again.
You should get a moog synthesizer. 😛
Oh Johnny…
Had a day off, and was trolling for old
Seattle chums.
Miss playing with you!
Love to you and your family
d
Dougie!
Dang. Wish I had known you were in town. We would have loved to have seen you! I still have the same cell number if you remember it from Jumbie days. Otherwise shoot me an email (john@hendow.com) and I’ll send it to you.
– John