40 Years ago today, Emmett Chapman discovered his two-handed tapping method of parallel hands that lead to The Stick. Find out more about the birth of this revolutionary new way to make music here: www.stick.com/method/Free_Hands/

Happy Tapping!

Hettory's beautiful solo CD, Meditación is the new featured CD at Stick.com. Meditación is the first release to feature the new Stick Guitar (SG-12).

Review at: http://www.stick.com/features/cd/.

I'm happy to announce that the new Stick GuitarTM (SG12TM) is now available:

http://www.stick.com/instruments/sg12/

This 12-string guitar scale instrument is great for anyone who has no desire to be the bass player, and wants to explore tapping music in higher registers, like piano music, or two guitars playing together, all the way up into the violin register, but with accompaniment down as low as the G below guitar low E.

The Stick Guitar is available with Emmett's trademark inlays every five frets (as linear inlays) or dot inlays with a guitar pattern (shown above).

There's also a breakdown of six suggested tunings here:
http://www.stick.com/instruments/tunings/

Greg Howard,
Stick Enterprises

Check out Trevor Stewart's latest release, Transcendence. Trevor has become a major Stick soloist, sounding like two or three guitarists at once, with this beautifully conceived and executed release.

More at: stick.com Featured CD

And don't forget to check out Trevor's MySpace page:


http://www.myspace.com/trevorstewart

Happy Tapping,
Stick Enterprises

Many of you know Don Schiff for his wonderful progressive solo CDs on Stick and NS/Stick. Don's also a member of the band Rocket Scientists, led by keyboardist Erik Norlander.

Think Tank Media has just released a five-disc project called "Looking Backwards" that includes a newly recorded studio performance DVD and 4 CDs of remastered and new recordings.

It's the current featured DVD on our website at:Stick Enterprises DVDs

Congratulations to Don and the rest of the band on a momentous release, documenting some truly inspired progressive music

Tony Levin has a new CD out called "Stick Man". On this, his first Stick-centric solo release, Tony covers a lot of ground, exploring the instrument like he never has before.

For more information about this CD and an interview with Tony, please see our home page:

Tony Levin Feature article on Stick.com

Happy Reading

NS/Stickist and singer Nathen Aswell has just released his debut CD, Little by Little. Nathen's a powerful singer and writer who can deliver a soulful ballad as easily as he can throw down some funk. You can find some sample tracks and more information about Nathen's music at http://www.myspace.com/nathenaswell

We've started adding more videos to our MySpace videos section. The first two are from the Stick Night '99 Video, which featured a night of music by eight Stick players in solo and ensemble setting.


NS/Stick player Don Schiff plays and sings a medley of two original songs

and Grand Stick player Larry Tuttle plays his amazing solo composition, "Spanish Mice".

More to come soon. Thanks for stopping by.

There's a new MySpace group for tapping musicians who use Emmett's Free Hands method on Sticks and other instruments as well:

Free Hands Tapping

Hopefully it will provide a nice environment for Stick players on MySpace to interact with other musicians making music this way.

Happy Tapping,
Greg