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View Poll Results: Standard or Fretless | |
Standard
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Fretless
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09-27-2007, 10:45 AM
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What do you prefere and why? |
09-27-2007, 11:12 AM
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09-27-2007, 11:31 AM
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Hi-fi into an old tube amp | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM | | | Standard brings it way more for aggressive music. But... use the right tool for the right job.
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09-27-2007, 11:41 AM
|  | *kidding* | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | What is 'standard'? If you mean fretted or fretless, I think there's a place for either/both, sometimes in the same song.
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09-27-2007, 11:54 AM
| | | | exactly, tools. most of the time i play fretted though
btw this should be in the bass section, since it has nothing at all to do with technique
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09-27-2007, 11:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N / East Texas | | | Standard for me IS fretless. I do have a fretted bass, but I haven't picked it up in months. |
09-27-2007, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Santiago de Chile. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chaosMK Standard brings it way more for aggressive music. But... use the right tool for the right job. | Yes, but Steve DiGiorgio plays metal with fretless and sounds very cool! |
09-28-2007, 12:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | | Both. Depends on the song. Always the song! |
09-28-2007, 12:41 AM
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President, HittStreet.com; Endorsing Artist, Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Missouri, USA | | +1... tools. So are pianos, violins, clarinets, synths, djembes... even guitars 
Use your ears, not your fingers/eyes/bass collection. Sometimes a bass-range singer is the right move, you know?
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09-28-2007, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rhode Island | | | If I had to pick just one - fretted. I play both but I grab the fretted a lot more often. Just more versatile, at least for the music I play.
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09-28-2007, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Seattle | | | Fretless is all I've played for approx. 30 years, incl. a self-imposed 7 year lay-off from music altogether... started playing again 2 years ago.
Just for me personally, it's the sound I hear in my head, my voice on the instrument... it expresses what I have to say on bass.
JMHO
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09-28-2007, 12:59 PM
| | | | Whatever tool gets the job done.
I use both fretted and fretless basses, depending upon the type and style of music. |
09-28-2007, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: biggleswade | | i have a fretless jazz bass..........and haven't picked up a fretted bass for ages. i prefer fretless much more. 
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09-28-2007, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by deckard Fretless is all I've played for approx. 30 years, incl. a self-imposed 7 year lay-off from music altogether... started playing again 2 years ago.
Just for me personally, it's the sound I hear in my head, my voice on the instrument... it expresses what I have to say on bass.
JMHO | 30 years on nothing but fretless? You are someone I want to take at least a lesson or two from.
If forced to pick, I'm leaning more and more towards fretless. I'm glad I don't have to pick - but it really is closer to being "my voice" (I'm still not sure if/when I'll be sure what "my voice" really is).
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09-28-2007, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Definitely fretless. I like how it can be made to sound a lot more lyrical.
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09-28-2007, 03:12 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Fretless is preferred for speed, but frets are nice for grabbing chords. |
09-28-2007, 03:13 PM
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09-28-2007, 04:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Fretless. I don't play a Standard bass. I play fretted though.
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