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Joe Drivdahl


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Montana, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 11:25 am    
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Check out this guy! This is nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udJr9cMCVFk&feature=related

Or maybe you remember this famous little tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpD0btOZx8&feature=related
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Paul Wade


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mundelein,ill
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 11:45 am    
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wow that is great . Whoa! who is he??
p.w Smile
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Joe Drivdahl


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Montana, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 11:52 am    
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I don't know. I just stumbled onto him on YouTube. Its a pretty unique style. He plays like a pianist kind of.

Joe
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Alan Pagliere

 

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Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 12:42 pm     Like a Chapman Stick
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It's just like playing a Chapman Stick ... only different. See this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KHq-eAk-qrQ
It's Greg Howard, one of the great Stick players showing how a Stick works.
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Bob Bowden


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Vancouver, BC, Canada * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 2:11 pm    
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The first player to really scare the music community with this type of two handed style was Stanley Jordan in the early 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZTyfKseZE

on this one he uses two guitars starting around 2:35 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs&feature=related
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John Billings


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Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 2:14 pm    
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Split brain thinking!
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Ron Whitfield

 

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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 3:19 pm     It's Z A C K - K I M
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I saw him on YT a couple of years ago. You'd think he'd get better... Smile
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Alan Brookes


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Brummy living in Southern California
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 4:31 pm    
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I have nothing but respect for this type of playing. It's hard enough to think of fretting notes with your right hand, which is like playing left-handed, but to fret with both hands is like playing left and right handed at the same time. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I guess you could get used to it in time. Rolling Eyes
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John Billings


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Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 4:36 pm    
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Listen to Satch. One guitar. I had to learn this song. It's beautiful/
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=M0keiofKcxo
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Edward Meisse

 

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Santa Rosa, California, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 4:40 pm    
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It would be much easier, I would think, to just use a keyboard, eh?
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John Billings


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Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 5:26 pm    
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I hate piano players! And that;s not the point!
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Roger Miller


From:
Cedar Falls, Ia.
Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:09 am    
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Yeah I had a bad set of strings like that one time./

Roger
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Duane Reese

 

Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:33 am    
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I do wonder why some of these 2-guitar-fingertap guys don't just go to a Chapman Stick - it might have to do with preference or familiarity.

Back home in Salt Lake, there's a guy named Terry Hansen who has been doing two or three guitars this way for years. He takes Able Axe guitars and puts wooden pegs through the holes to bind them together, and away he goes! I saw him playing downtown a couple of years ago, and he's as good as ever - really great guy too.
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Roger Edgington


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San Antonio, Texas USA
Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 12:32 pm    
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Check out Adam Fulara on you tube. He plays a double neck guitar,both necks at the same time. He has it down pretty good. They call it "tapping".
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John Billings


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Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 12:36 pm    
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I learned the Satch tune cuz it's done on one guitar with two-handed tapping. You can even do it on acoustic. Left hand taps the bass note and chords. Right hand taps out the harmonized lead line.
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Joe Drivdahl


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Montana, USA
Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 1:46 pm    
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Well whatever you call it, its pretty impressive. Its not something that I would ever consider trying. I have trouble enough with one guitar. It does kind of seem similar to playing piano though, at least to me, but I sure couldn't do it. Never could play a pianny either. Heck, I can't even get the Chet/Merle Travis alternating thumb thing down and I <i><b>want</b></i> to do that. Too much like walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time, I guess.

Joe
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