Welcome to the Stick Enterprises homepage. Our designs are based on the revolutionary two-handed tapping method of parallel hands discovered by Emmett Chapman on guitar in 1969 and taught since then to players around the world.

With Emmett's Free Hands method, both of your hands are equal partners. As they approach the fretboard from opposite sides, your fingers line up parallel to the frets and a powerful new musical language emerges - bass lines, lead melodies, chords, and rhythm, simultaneously, and in any combination you desire.

Today thousands of musicians are making their own music with our Stick, Grand Stick, Stick Bass and NS/Stick fretboard tapping instruments. Emmett continues to expand on his original concepts by adding to the variety of Stick models, features and tunings - defining the state of the art in tapping instruments.

The Stick comes from the guitar and bass, but its playing method shares roots with keyboards and drums as well, placing all of these musical voices in the hands of one musician. The Stick is unique, expansive, versatile, like each of its players. It is a blank slate upon which to "tap your potential."


               



Abby Clutario
Stickist, keyboardist
and lead vocalist
of the band Fuseboxx
who have just released their,
new CD, ANIMATED
Feature, videos and interview.






NEW GUITAR SCALE STICKS:
12-string Stick Guitar® (SG12) and
10-string Alto Stick™

New NS/Stick bamboo neck with Rails™ tapping frets

New Divided Truss System™
A 4-Way Truss Rod™ for a more refined fretboard profile

New Penetrating dyes and stains for the NS/Stick

New Laminated Bamboo Sticks: lighter in weight and more rigid than hardwoods, available in light and dark natural finishes, and colorful penetrating dyes

New Stick Dual Bass Reciprocal™ tuning for bassists.

Ten String Grand™ — 10 strings with wider string spacing

Linear fretboard markers option on all 8, 10, and 12-string models

PASV-4™ passive quad pickup module by Villex

Rails™ stainless steel precision tapping frets

Flaps™ Dual Nut Unit







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