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Tap/touchstyle club?
- Thread starter ddhm
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This is a good club. 
Just sold my NS in June, due to wrist problems caused in part by the wide neck and flat fingerboard. Yet I still want an 8-string. If anyone has comments on the Touch Guitars U8 or T8 neck in comparison with the NS, I am all ears.
Just sold my NS in June, due to wrist problems caused in part by the wide neck and flat fingerboard. Yet I still want an 8-string. If anyone has comments on the Touch Guitars U8 or T8 neck in comparison with the NS, I am all ears.
I’ve played U8s, and owned a T8 and NS stick.
Short version: NS has flat radius, is thinner front to back, and wider string spacing. U8 and T8 are much thicker, have an asymmetrical profile, a 16” radius, and the string spacing is more like the 4 high strings of the NS—so it’s overall thinner.
I’ll PM you.
Short version: NS has flat radius, is thinner front to back, and wider string spacing. U8 and T8 are much thicker, have an asymmetrical profile, a 16” radius, and the string spacing is more like the 4 high strings of the NS—so it’s overall thinner.
I’ll PM you.
I'm into a touchstyle club. Is this thread its home? or should we start a thread that doesn't have a question mark in the title?
If this is the place, I suggest members introduce themselves. I'm Reg Braithwaite, I play an NS/Stick called "Anansi," after the spider that has a prominent place in the folklore of my ancestors. I am currently working on something else, but I spent about a year teaching myself to play—badly—Bach's Invention in D minor, BWV 775.
I know that most touchstyle players are into playing melody and harmony simultaneously, and as a listener I really dig that. But as a novice, I really enjoyed attempting to play complementary melodies in counterpoint. It broke my brain!
In other news, I am a musical masochist.
If this is the place, I suggest members introduce themselves. I'm Reg Braithwaite, I play an NS/Stick called "Anansi," after the spider that has a prominent place in the folklore of my ancestors. I am currently working on something else, but I spent about a year teaching myself to play—badly—Bach's Invention in D minor, BWV 775.
I know that most touchstyle players are into playing melody and harmony simultaneously, and as a listener I really dig that. But as a novice, I really enjoyed attempting to play complementary melodies in counterpoint. It broke my brain!
In other news, I am a musical masochist.
I love this description!
The masochism of 'complementary melodies in counterpoint' resonates with me as a lead singer/bass player. I started in my first band as a singer. The bass player they recruited was basically a flake and missed practice half the time.
I didn't have any trouble playing simple bass lines, 8ths, 16ths, while singing. Nor really too much in singing parts where the vocals were tightly on the 'grid.' but I keenly remember when I started to try and up my bass game playing stuff that locked in tight with the kick and snare, while keeping the singing timing natural and loose.
That was the rubbing your belly tapping your head x 10 thing at first.
My brain is so oddly divisible now, I will try to stop the song at band practice to talk about some change, etc. and my damn hands will keep playing the part. I'll be simultaneously saying to the drummer...'dude, hold on, let's try....hey!.' To myself 'Hands!! stop.'
It can feel like blinking now. I can control it, but it can be set on autopilot.
The main bass part in this are slap and artificial harmonics. I think that counts as tap. No?
Definitely! Very cool track, neat vibe, groove and nice playing. You on bass and vocals? Making an assumption based on your avatar.
Yep. That's me on lead vocals and bass, just switch up the camera shots with and without the bass. I realize it may be hard to see whether there are 3 or 4 people unless you really watch for it as the lighting was all focused not on the people as much as getting the projections right. I originally just pitched a simple video idea of the images and a lyric video. Then someone suggested a projector. I shot it all first with bass and they were like 'bass is messing up the projector too much and you're moving around too damn much.' Then we watched that and they wanted to overlay images in post. Ha, I don't really know what I'm doing as a video editor, just watched tutorials as I went. In hindsight, we might have actually attempted to have light on our full faces lol.
That is owed to breaking my brain in my youth ha. I started as a singer but our band needed a bass player. I had a lot of trouble doing justice to both at first but spent hours a day for a good year. I felt something snap at some point. Like, it all clicked into place, but in a weird way. Like Id try to pause the band at practice to comment on some part or change and my hands would keep playing. To this day, if Im singing, my hands play all kinds of little fills without me really having conscious command over them. Im just glad they are on beat and in key most of the time.Nice job man! Even more impressive that you’re singing over it
