Videos download - Bach guitar solos

[Adam Fulara]

Helo!

I'm new here, my name is Adam Fulara, I play the guitar with two-handed tapping (see my www if You would like to know my bio or something), last time I recorded 3 videos (guitar solos):

BWV 784 - famous Invention in A (with 6-string guitar):
http://fulara.com/video/Adam_Fulara-BWV_784.avi
5MB

BWV 848 (with doublenecked guitar):
http://fulara.com/video/Adam_Fulara-BWV_848.avi
7MB

Just the Two of Us:
http://fulara.com/video/Adam_Fulara-Just_the_Two_of_Us.avi
20MB

Codec Xvid:
http://fulara.com/video/codec.exe

I would appreciate any opinions and sugestions (about my playing, technique etc.)

Thanks, enjoy, regards

[TheDirt]

Hey, you're pretty talented. Good job, the Body and Soul sounds quite good, and the Bach is quite impressive as well. Do you have any tracks with you and your band?

[ketsueki15]

wow..that good..wat are you amp guitar setting you use..ive always wanted to try playin with both hands but couldnt get the right tone or anytihn needed for it

[ketsueki15]

nevermind my last post..i just found it all out at your site

[Adam Fulara]

Thanks to all!

>Do you have any tracks with you and your band?

There is one realy old recording (two years) in FOol-X > MP3 section ("So What"), but now we're recording new songs and perhaps some will be accessible in september.

[ketsueki15]

how did u get started or interested in tappin..i figured i would buy a chapman stick for touch technique

[Adam Fulara]

>how did u get started or interested in tappin.

I was influenced by Polish guitar player Partyzant. He has one of greatest sound (tone) with touch technique I have ever heard (There will be some resources about him at my page soon). I started work at technique then, after few years I have heard S. Jordan stuff. It is OK, but didn't impressed me, so S. Jordan wasn't my influence. Later (3 years ago) I first have heard about stick and warr guitars. I think it is OK, but I had my own conception (I had specification of my new doublenecked guitar earlier). Stick is quite different instrument, it doesn't sound like guitar, I thought about stick buying, but I decided stay playing guitar. I listen sometimes stick-players but I don't know if there is some stick player as great as Davis, Coltrane, Metheny or Parker was. So I listen to those masters, no tap players. I have heard that F. Jolliffe plays quite good, but I haven't heard this stuff yet.

[ketsueki15]

tru about the stick not soundin to close to a guitar but u have heard mp3 files of a guy playin bach stuff on the stick with the midi import or somthin with midi that sounded pretty good

[Adam Fulara]

agree, probably You're talking about Guilemo Cides (he recorded first and only tap CD with Bach tunes).

There is possibility to place in my guitar MIDI pickups, I'll think about it in the future.

[ketsueki15]

im interested in tappin but i dont have very much money..if anythin the stick is cheaper than the waar guitars..any suggestions for people like me with not much money?

[Adam Fulara]

I don't know what to say - I have never played stick nor warr. For me sticks and warrs are expensive - cheap guitar You can buy for 100 USD, cheap stick for 1100, but remember - You would need two amps, special strings, case or something, so You'll probably need about 1600 USD. I saw cheaper form of tap-instruments at Mobius Megatar, but still they are expensive to me.

MIDI pickup and module is very expansive.

[ketsueki15]

two amps for the stick??o i kneewbout the midi bein expensive.. i was readin on ur sight bout lowering the string and som other stuff..is all that expensive?

[Adam Fulara]

Stick has stereo cord (jack input) so if You buy new stick You recive also stereo cable. You can use mixer (I don't know if stick also can work in MONO mode, but always You can use small mixer). Besides stick has great Bass and poor treble - so it's better to use bass amp - not guitar amp.

I dislike if somebody uses stick sounding like TWO instruments. I like a piano idea of the stick. Now stick is an underground instrument - it would need "Chopin of stick" - a great virtuoso and stick composer, who made stick nice for all (not only for tappers) to hear. So it is Your chance :)

[ketsueki15]

ill stick with the idea of a touch technique for the guitar i just wonder if my guitar shop will do it..do i just ask them i want this guitar to be sensitive to were i can tap it and it is easy heard or somtihn?? sorry for buggin this late in the the mornin with all tyhese questions

[Adam Fulara]

In my opinion any touch guitar no need any special features. Bach Invention I've recorded - was played on cheap 6-string electric guitar for 500 USD and it sounds OK. I use also fat strings (E from 0.011). Alway tappers says, that they use thin strings (ex. from 0.009).

[ketsueki15]

but are the strings close to the fret board? ive tried tappin on a clean channel and could hear the taps very well

[ketsueki15]

couldnt***

[Adam Fulara]

I use standard string action, like I used when I was a shredder.

Whops, server is down for a while (so link doesn't work now), - we have problem with net, I work at this, and it will be work fine soon. Sorry

[Adam Fulara]

now server is working again, so links should be fine. (I don't know if it was last server breakdown today...).

[ketsueki15]

well i guess illl have ti eiter turn the volum up or get new stronger pick ups

[Adam Fulara]

tapping is quite silenced than standard techniques, but You could even use stratocaster with single-coils to play tapping. So strong pickup isn't necessary.

[ketsueki15]

do you use string danpeners..i tried the tappin today and the top top 3 strings (654) are easily heard but any lower becomes a real pain to hear

[Azrael]

hmm.. i realy wonder why you dont use a stick.. it sounds so much betteer and clearer and crisper than a tapped guitar.. nevertheless your guitar and playing is cool!

[Edited by Azrael on 08-07-2003 at 03:43 AM]

[Adam Fulara]

see "Why not stick?" section at my web page in Gear part:
http://adam.fulara.com/a/eind.php?g=esprzet#stick

I don't like stick cold sound, long measure. It has great bass and very poor treble, I like sound of jazz-guitar players (stick hasn't)

Regards

[ketsueki15]

i like the one idea of being able to play two trebble parts at once..i dont know bout the sick tho and u have to have two amps right?..sorta rediculous but o well im still interested in checkin ebay out for a used stick

[Azrael]

well - i personally am blown away by the sound of my stick - plus the action is VERY low - compared to a regular guitar you harldy need to touch the string to produce a tapped tone. the feeling is great and the fact the the hands cross the fretborad does not mean that you are incapable of playing the low registers of the trebblestrings. infact you can play much more because you can (due to the fact that there is no gap between the bass and the trebble side) use all 5 fingers of one hand to play the trebble and bass side at once. Check out Bob Culbertson - his style is amazing. aswell as Greg Howard.
i am not sure why you say that the stick sound is cold - it is absolutely not - but i guess thats a matter of taste.

[ketsueki15]

is the treble weak and do u have to have 2 amps azreal?? i seriously thinkn bout buyin one but odnt know to much bout it or anyone who plays it besides u

[Azrael]

no the trebble is not weak and you do not necessarily need two amps - you only need two inputs for the cable is a Y-cable (stereo- mono-mono). of course with two amps the result is much better. but what comes very handy are two effectboards - one for bass and one for guitar.

[ketsueki15]

well thats cools..i have a good marshall anda cheap amp..does the stick come with string dampners(sp)??