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View Poll Results: How do you play above the 12th fret? | |
Never
|    | 5 | 2.27% | |
Seldom
|    | 103 | 46.82% | |
Frequently
|    | 112 | 50.91% |
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07-02-2010, 11:57 PM
| | | | Poll: Playing Beyond the Twelfth Fret
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How often do you play above the twelfth fret?
Never
Seldom
Frequently |
07-02-2010, 11:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Towson, Maryland | | | Seldom, but why not include an actual poll? |
07-03-2010, 12:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | I do it sometimes, but I definitely do not ignore the frets beyond 12.
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07-03-2010, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by grifff  Seldom, but why not include an actual poll? | New at this grifff, not sure what you mean? |
07-03-2010, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by jackajesusfreak New at this grifff, not sure what you mean? | Polls sometimes take a minute or so to appear when a new thread with a poll is opened; grifff probably opened the thread before the poll was visible.
And I play around the 12th fret fairly often  |
07-03-2010, 12:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles | | | ***? Compared to brass instrument players, who have to struggle for years to develop high-range capability, do you have ANY idea how cool it is to to have wide-register capability if you simply pick a bass with more frets? How can you be a complete bass player without using the fat sound that obtains when you use the upper frets on your lower strings to get an even fatter, phatter sound? ***!
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07-03-2010, 12:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fargo, ND | | | I usually stay below the 12th fret unless I'm playing a solo, in which case I like to use all the notes I can find. I had a solo in a piece a while ago that ranged from my open E to the second octave on my G string (24th fret).
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07-03-2010, 12:48 AM
| | | | gotta work that neck bruh' |
07-03-2010, 01:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Across the creek from Cinci | | | All 24 of 'em get used regularly.
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07-03-2010, 01:48 AM
|  | curiously looking back at what once was beautiful | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon | | | Depends on the gig of course, but yeah, those upper frets get used. Not just on the highest string, either (IME the E & B strings can really kill up around the 15th fret).
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07-03-2010, 01:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | I play up there quite a bit,but usually just to get a fatter sound on swing tunes while palm muting to get an upright type tone.Never for solos,but I really don't care to take solos for the most part.
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07-03-2010, 02:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: dallas texas!!!! | | | frequently... |
07-03-2010, 05:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | somewhat frequently. |
07-03-2010, 05:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Porto, Portugal | | | Normally i just go above the 12th fret for some quick fills. |
07-03-2010, 06:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | I kinda prefer to go across the strings than go up the neck, personally |
07-03-2010, 06:23 AM
|  | Chronic Pain Endorsed By Fentanyl/Oxycodone/Valium | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Evansville, IN | | Frequently - if you don't answer this, why not just have frets from 1 to 12-14 like Scott Ian of Anthrax did with his Jackson "NOT!" guitars in the late-'80s...  |
07-03-2010, 06:33 AM
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its all about "THE POCKET" | | | | | i never have to....and i love it. sometimes i never play past the 9th fret lol |
07-03-2010, 06:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ballaarat, Victoria, OZ | | | 12+ is good for chords and fills. But I'm usually down the funky end of the board. |
07-03-2010, 01:28 PM
| | | | As the original post guy, I guess I should weigh in. As of right now, I have one song that I play above the 12th. |
07-03-2010, 05:50 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bismarck | | | How can so many people dismiss that sweet sweet tone you get? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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