Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!kirsch From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Stanley Jordan Message-ID: <2516@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:05:52 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2516 Posted: Mon Nov 4 15:05:52 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:15:09 EST References: <1195@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 29 Summary: > What is special about Stanley Jordan is that he plays the > guitar in a way that I believe no one else has ever done it > - he taps the strings along the fretboard, playing it like a > keyboard (I believe that they do something special with the > amplification of the guitar). This enables him to play > independent bass and treble parts simultaneously on > different parts of the fretboard... > Besides the amplification of the guitar I think he uses a guitar with an aluminum-based neck which gives a better vibration of the strings when hammers down on it with his right hand. To me one of the biggest drawbacks to Jordan is that he can get no type of vibrato whatsoever with this method-- this to me leaves a guitar sound that is lacking in "feel". -- Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of: Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pa { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!kirsch Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear...