Kelstone-H.O.T.contest-Stefan Huth
Oct 18, 2011 tapping
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Small Video with Chapman Stick Hands on Top playing on a Keyboard Stand made for Jan van Kelst’ s Kelstone Hot Contest. The Chapman Stick was originally Made by Emmet Chapman to play in an upright position like Tony Levin or Bob Culbertson does. Jan Van Kelst developed the hands on top technique where you play on top of the Strings. I also saw many guitar players like Andy McKee, Tommy Emmanuel or stanley jordan or bass players like John Myung or Jean Baudin using the tapping technique on their instruments always grabbing around the neck but the first guy where I saw it with hands on top was a youtube video called “Air Tap” of Erik Mongrain. He did nice stuff especially to get out the harmonics. I like the idea. The tune that I’m playing is a folk tune made by Alexander Meyen (www.violalex.de) that I played with the Loop String Project years ago where we also did a lot of live looping. There is also a video with the band!
Duration : 0:1:16
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Chris Brooks – Velvet Claws [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
Dec 19, 2010 acoustic jazz fusion guitar jams
Share it with your friends – Brooks is back! Velvet Claws is the first single from the 2nd Chris Brooks solo album, entitled “The Axis of All Things”. Velvet Claws is available from http://chrisbrooks.com/velvetclaws.html NOW, and iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/album/velvet-claws-single/id405427506
Deluxe edition on http://chrisbrooks.com includes the song, a backing track, 18 page transcription and the promo video!
Brought to life on film by: Chris Brooks – guitar, Steve Paoli – 2nd guitar (http://www.myspace.com/stevepaoli ), Cee Jay St. John – bass, Aled Powell – drums
Chris says: “Whilst the album is a mix of rock, fusion, shred, some prog and even some acoustic, this track is an unashamed melodic rocker, a straightforward guitar song that winks at some of my childhood influences. This is just me having playing the guitar! Some of the influences you’ll guess right and some you’ll guess wrong. Have fun listening and thanks for your support and comments! – Chris”
Chris Brooks uses Suhr guitars and pedals. http://suhrguitars.com
Please see other CB videos at http://youtube.com/chrisbrooksmusic
Duration : 0:4:5
Tags: aled, all, axis, blackstar, boogie, boost, brooks, cee, Chris, claws, Govan, guitar, guitars, Guthrie, Jay, john, koko, legato, master, melodic, Mesa, metal, moore, norum, of, official, paoli, plan, powell, prog, rock, rock punk, Shred, solo, st., steve, suhr, Things, vai, velvet, Video, vinnie
Chris Brooks – Kryptica (performance)
Apr 9, 2010 legato
http://www.chrisbrooks.com
Chris Brooks performs a fan-favorite from his debut album “The Master Plan” – Kryptica. Chris’ approach to faster melodies and solos with legato aplenty here. Fans of prog metal and instrumental guitar music might really dig this. Enjoy!
You can buy “The Master Plan” at stores like http://www.chrisbrooks.com , www.cdbaby.com/cd/chrisbrooks and iTunes.
Duration : 0:4:57
Tags: brett, brooks, Chris, dream, garsed, Govan, guitar, Guthrie, Joe, john, legato, lesson, master, metal, moore, petrucci, plan, prog, PRS, satriani, solo, steve, The, theater, vai, vinnie
Impulse – An Endless Sporadic – percussion cover – GH3 Guitar Hero III
Dec 5, 2009 guitar solos
This piece was recorded March 2008 at Denton High School in Denton, TX, while I was the percussion instructor there.
This song is just plain flat-out awesomeness. If anybody has known me for the past 2 years, they know I’m an obsessive Guitar Hero player, and that’s how I discovered this piece, Impulse, by two badass musicians who call themselves An Endless Sporadic. You can check them out on MySpace, but they haven’t been signed or released an official album yet. One of them works for Neversoft, the drummer Andy, and he got their song in the game Guitar Hero 3 as a bonus song. Once I heard it, I knew I had to arrange it someday.
It was a challenge to get the marimbas and vibes to work in the original key, since some of the guitar parts are so low, but I don’t like changing keys in my arrangements, so luckily we had two 5 octave marimbas and some mics to help on the low end. I gave my best shot at playing the crazy drumset part with a single bass drum pedal, but the real key was hiring the amazing Chris McQueen to play the guitar part. He plays with Oso Closo and Snarky Puppy (from Denton) and you should check them out too, they will rock your face off.
This piece was fun to do as a percussion ensemble because in the original they used ProTools and had already added all of the small percussion instruments you’ll hear, so I didn’t need to add anything. I did cut out an entire chunk of the piece in the middle, because it would have been impossible to recreate all the crazy distorted guitar effects with percussion in that section, and I also extended one part to allow Chris McQueen to take an improvised guitar solo.
Otherwise, like most of my arrangements, I tried to recreate the original piece as faithfully as possible in a percussion ensemble form, so I hope you like it! I think this is my best arrangement to date in terms of fun and excitement factor, because the source material was just so mind-blowing.
From Left to Right:
Joanna Ceja -(marimba)
Manuel Ortiz -(bells/percussion)
Charlie Tucker -(chimes/percussion)
Bobby Jacobs – (marimba)
Brandon Arthur -(electric bass)
Sean Redman -(me on drumset)
Chris McQueen -(guest artist on electric guitar)
Cody Goble -(marimba)
Christina Burch -(vibes)
Austin Ford -(vibes)
Charles Crouch -(vibes)
Ryan Klinck -(vibes)
Duration : 0:5:11
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Muse – New Born
Oct 31, 2009 legato
EDIT : get the tab (GP4) of the legato sequence here !
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VE4SZNEE
Guitar on New Born (Origin of Symmetry).
I’m not really satisfied with the rendition, especially since I quite spent the time mastering that legato sequence on the bridge of the song, but I don’t want to make fifteen takes, so …
PRS Guitar goes effect-less into a VOX valvetronix 30W, and then through a SM58 Shure microphone, to the mixing table and finally to the computer. I use Audacity for sound processing and Windows Movie Maker for mixing audio and video.
Thanks for watching ! As always, feel free to leave comments !
Duration : 0:6:11
Tags: Bellamy, Born, Chris, Dominic, guitar, Howard, live, Matthew, Muse, music, New, of, Origin, prog, rock, Symmetry, Wolstenholme
