E-Tap report 2000

Reports and archives of the E-Tap

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A brief report and the list of activities at E-Tap 2000.

The Tap-guitar Night, Théatre le Travers, Brussels, June 29, 2000.
Performances by
- The Tip-tap club: Antoine Valenti (alto sax), Vincent Wobbe (on t-g), Laura Wester (piano) play 'Blue Bossa' (Dorham), 'The World of Asavari"' (Schell)
- Jesus Aunon (6str guitar) original compositions and an invention by Bach
- Karo Trio with Emmanuel Suys (clar), Daniel Schell (tiptar, 12str in fourths-fourths), Carlo Strazzante (tabla). Compositions by Schell, 'Tropics' by Jolliffe, '1294' by Bernard Ros.
- Wolfgang Daiss plays jazz standards on his tiptar (14-str in fourths-fourths).
- Olivier Verschueren with Carlo Strazzante(tabla), plays own composition on the 4-str bass guitar. Then 'Remi' (Schell), ande Bourré (Bach) on tiptar (12 str, fourths-fourths)
- Sylvain Dollet plays Tristesse (Dollet) on his t-g (10 str fifths-fourths)
- Teed Rockwell (12 str, crossed parallel fourths-fourths) plays his compositions in his nice 'folk' style.
- Ray Ashley (10 strings, fifths-fourths)plays various songs solo, then 'Nag Champa' (Ashley) with Emmanuel Suys (bass clar),
- String Unit. The trio with Dagobert Böhm (guitars), Zoltan Lantos (5-string violin), Markus Reuter (8-str crafty),

The E-Tap Seminar, Neufchâteau
First class: Frank Salama, Xavier Perez, Michel Fouillade, Michael Strauss
Second Class: Grobi Okun, Ray Ashley, Youenn Landreau, Jesus Aunion, Pierre Driesmans, Sylvain Dollet
Third class: Paolo Vallebona, Olivier Verschueren, Ola Rinta-Koski

- Everyday Morning:

Teaching by Wolfgang Daiss : Basically Wolfgang did study 'Tropics' and 'Finished again' by Frank Jolliffe with all three classes. Melody, bass lines, chords were covered according to the individual levels.
Teaching by Daniel Schell. First class: scales (positions 1, 2 and 4, stretch): Laterne, Frère Jacques, Rosamunde (Schubert); sight reading the Path to My Space, vol 1; reading 'Nice Nose' (Splendore); . Second Class: scales (positions, stretch, change of positions, rythmics) 'Laterne', 'Rosamunde'(Schubert), Volkslied (Beethoven). 'Remi face au Lacis doré' (Schell), a tour of tap-composers: Lampi, Jolliffe, Wagner. Sight reading Path vol 1 & 2 . Third class: Scales (Rotation modes, rythmics, ornaments, glissandi, cut), Bourrée (Bach) 'Remi' (Schell'), Sight reading 'The Path' Vol 1 &2, tour of tap-composers, Preparing the performance of '1294' by Bernard Ros.
Teaching by Kuno Wagner: warming up, scales, developping exercises, rythmics, circulation.
   Detail:    Day 1 - Warm ups: Rolling 123432 fingering on one tone, chromatic scale with two hands on 1st., 2nd. and 3rd. string (in 4th and 5th tuning), counting against the beat,   (splitting of attention: e.g. playing in 4 counting in 5 )
       Day 2 : Warm ups:Rolling on one tone and 4 cromatic tones, note location (major scale tones on 1st., 2nd., 3rd... string. Position changes.(right hand) over a simple bass line (left hand). Two tone combinations        (12,13,14,21,23,24,31,32,34,41,42,43) .
   four types of scale playing:                 1.) eight notes on one string // on 2 strings: two on str 1 , 6 on str 2 // On 3 strings: 2 on string 1; 3 on str 2: 3 on string 3 ;
               Day 3: Three tone combinations   (123,124,132,134,142,143). Scale circulation in time (dorian and ionian scale)
     Day 4: Warm ups: Rolling, possition change, pull offs and hammer ons. Improvised minimal music piece as circulation. Group improvisation
     Day 5 : four tone combinations    (1234,1243,1323,1342,1423,1432) with changing of strings.                    - rhythm pyramid: 1-.12-.123-.1234-.12345-.123456-.1234567-.12345678-.   and back:                                  12345678-.1234567-.123456-.12345-.1234-.123-.12-.1-.
                  Day 6 Rolling on one tone with alternate hands on different strings. Odd meters: clapped and played as bass lines, with and without dead notes.

- Afternoon Master Classes
CD Listening session:
Analysis of Steve Hayden: The CD's by Hayden are analised with the musical scores. The new CD by Frank Jolliffe.
New CD's : Daniel Schell presents The t-g in different environments: his opera 'Hygiène' performed by W.Daiss; Indian Music: his new solo with Sandip Banerjee (tabla); Chamber music out from 'If Windows they have', 'The secret of Bwlch', 'Gira Girasole' etc...Analysis of the tiptar solos, performed by Wolfgang Daiss, in 'L'enfoui fuit' , the new musical theater piece by Schell.
Wolfgang Daiss presents his new CD of songs accompanied by guitar and t-g.
Jesus Aunion: presents his unique tapping technique on the straight 6 str electric guitar. Strumming chords, on open strings and "semi-open" strings (those held by the other hand). Breaking melodies in LH and RH parts. Using the 'flamenco' effects as the rasgueado. Harmonics.

Kuno Wagner presents his electronic soundscape set-up and mastery. Kuno plays a 8 str Warr, which goes to a chain of transformers and memory devices. He can store parts of his playing in several digital memories in order to create "loops" or circular rythmic patterns. All his phrases can also be transformed by various filters, saturation, phasings and other effects. Instead of straight pitch-notes, he can input gestual "movements"such as glissandi on the strings, strums and so on. As a result, the sound palette is greatly enlarged. He presents live works by his trio with Michael Strauss on electronic drumset and X on electronic MIDI saxophone.

Teed Rockwell, in both morning and afternoon classes, explains his technique. Teed uses interesting ornaments in his playing of folk and Indian music.
- The unisson-tremolo, an original idea of Jolliffe, which Teed brought to a unique achievement. The same note is played in tremolo on two adjacent strings, by alternating rapidly fingre 1 and 4.
- The bending, in the Indian 'meend' fashion.
- arpegios, using the same note on different regions. Due to his unique tuning, Teed has strings which are almost doubled on the Mel and Bass sides. He can achieve an open-like sound, giving a feeling of acoustic guitar.

Daniel Schell Master class on contemporary music and harmony: How to use the tiptar in contemporary orchestral, opera and chamber music. It's place in the orchestra where it can be used as a percussion- , a bass- or a harmonic instrument. The contemporary harmony is mainly a generalisation of the traditional - and jazz - harmony. Where the classical forms use chords mainly in thirds, arranged in tonal sequences such as I IIm V7, the contemporary uses all forms of intervals in all kinds of sequences. The students are invited to write a composition for clarinet, cello and tiptar, which is then commented by the group. Indian music: a group of student sits on the ground. Each one holds the tiptar based on the ground and on his shoulder. The raaga malkauns - C Eb F Ab Bb C'- is presented in the form of a 16th century tarana, a Persian song taught to Daniel by Dhruba Ghosh, which uses onomatopoeia instead of lyrics. Various techniques are outlined such as the scales in glissandi.Each student learns to play the rhythmic cycle tintal on the tabla, the percussion instrument. After that students practice improvisation with given phrases - taana-s - accompanied by tabla.

The Concerts
Monday night, In the large concert room of Neufchâteau:
- Jesus Aunion plays his compositions, accompanied by Kuno Wagner
- Teed Rockwell plays his compositions.
- Daniel Schell (tiptar), Olivier verschueren(Tiptar), Carlo Strazzante (tabla) play a fantasy on raaga asawaari ( a form of minor) , on rupak taal, a rythmic cycle of 7-beats .
- Youenn Landreau plays own compositions with percussion.
- Wolfgang Daiss plays 'Softly as in a morning sunrise' . He is joined by Guy Raiffe on guitar
- Ray Ashley plays the 'kalimba compositions'.

Friday Night, Large Concert Room, Academy Students concert
In front of a packed audience of 300, the students present their work. The Tapping class was there:
- OLa Rinta-Koski, Paolo Vallebona and Valérie, tuba, play 1992 by Bernard Ros.
- Olivier Verschueren tapping on bass guitar, plays own composition with Carlo Strazzante (perc) .
- Kuno Wagner and a group of twelve tiptars play a 'Crafty' circulation composition.

Daniel Schell September 2000

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