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About Me

Garry Goodman is an international recording artist. His latest CD release, "Tap Dance On A Cloud," with guitarist David Nielsen debuted at number 6 on New Age Reporter.com's Top 100 charts in March 2005. It remained in the top 10 for three months and in the top 100 for 6 months, making them number 15 on the 2005 New Age Reporter Top 100 chart. The Nielsen-Goodman Project was nominated for Best New Artist in the New Age Reporter 2005 Lifestyle Awards. "Tap Dance On A Cloud" has been added to 200 radio stations worldwide. This CD features Garry's unique sound, Percussive Harmonics, an organized system of playing all notes in harmonics. Garry plays all styles of music from Rock to Samba to Jazz. As a professional union bassist, over the past four decades he has performed in all types of venues (concerts, conventions, musical theater, night clubs and show rooms, cruise ships-even the Barnum Circus). He is a strong lead vocalist and sings a variety of songs. Garry is a composer, producer and session musician with hundreds of union jingle, film, TV, etc. recording sessions to his credit. Garry concieved of the 7- and single course 12-string bass guitars. His 7-string bass was the first bass guitar to go beyond 6 strings. His 12-string has the widest sonic range of any guitar, with a span of 8 octaves. Garry is also the first 11-string bass guitarist. For a list of the radio stations that have added "Tap Dance On A Cloud" and more info on Garry Goodman, visit http://garrygoodman.com. Notes on music samples: Check out Garry's amazing all-harmonic 32nd note passages in the bass solo from " Haleakala" (about 2:17 minutes into the track) played on his Tobias 7-string bass guitar. Can you hear the low C sharp 17 hertz note played on his 11-string Adler at the end of "Bubble Work?"

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Member Since: 3/8/2006
Band Website: garrygoodman.com
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Record Label: Split Second Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Nielsen-Goodman live clips

I found some video taken around 2000 of the duo playing some of our tunes before we performed with the quartet, "Jasmine". I forgot how fast I used to play "Haleakala". Compare this video to the 2004 ...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:09:00 PST

Super Mario Bros. theme played on 12-string bass

I recently came across the sheet music of all the music cues from the Super Mario Bros. Game. Since it is written for piano and covers a 3 octave span, I though the theme would be a good example on ho...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:12:00 PST

Sold out again

We'd like to thank everyone who purchased a copy of "Tap Dance On A Coud" . We have soldevery last copy again. We should have some more manufactured soon. There maybe a few here : http://www.cdbaby.co...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:26:00 PST

Internet radio station add

"Tap Dance On A Cloud" will be added to the playlist at:http://www.beosradio.com/An internet station with a very different selection of artists. Their "Extreme Variety mix" is a very cool concept.And ...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:55:00 PST

The "Donna Lee" clip

I was asked where this vid clip, taped at Pasadena Bass Day on July 15th could be viewed.. I was asked to get up and play at the end of the day and just plugged in and played. A drummer and pianist jo...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:57:00 PST

Triple Octave 12-string

Here's a video of the new triple octave string set I've developed for the 12- and 15-string octave basses.The current 12-string tuning(not the Adler 12) on the 34" scaleis:E1 e2 e2 A1 a2 a2 D2 d3 d3...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:07:00 PST

My Basses are tuned to...

I've received a couple of inquiries regarding the tuning I use for my bass guitars. I would think at this time I am the only bassist who uses these tunings for the 11- and 12- string basses.The tuning...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:58:00 PST

"Angelita" bass solo

I've received a few emails inquiring about the Percussive Harmonic bass solo I played on the track.Since we can only up load four tracks on to this site,the best I can offer is a portion of the solo(s...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:00:00 PST

Radio interview on Maui radio

Get some Maui "vibes"I will be a featured artist and participate in a live interview this Saturday, May 27th at 10am Hawai'ian time, which is 1pm PST and 4pm EST on: Mana'o Radio 91.5 KEAO Wailuku, ...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Wed, 24 May 2006 03:35:00 PST

Adler 12-string bass

Having the very first 12-string with 435 note positions spanning 8 octaves for nearly a year and a half has been a real "eye-opener" for me.I've completely changed how I approach sight reading music b...
Posted by Garry Goodman on Mon, 22 May 2006 04:30:00 PST