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Originally Posted by gweimer
Where's Juaqo? His guitarist uses a 7-string fanfret guitar, and is just awesome. Novax makes a fanfret Charlie Hunter model guitar.
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Oh, don't get me wrong. My guitarist at that time was a great one. I double as a lead guitarist, so I am no guitarist-hater. The band I was in back then did a lot of songs off the cuff, stuff we had never practiced before. As long as one of us knew it, if the audience requested it, we would try it. If I knew the song, but the guitarist didn't, I would just stand near him and he would look at my hands to figure out which chords to play. But, my AB1 had 5 strings, fanned frets, and no dot position markers on the fretboard. It didn't take long for me to figure out that I would have to shout the chords to him instead of having him look at my hands. Which led to a led of this....
Me...."Next chord is C!"
Guitarist...."D?"
Me...."C!"
Guitarist..."Oh...E!"
Me...."No....C"
Guitarist..."I got it....E"
Me....***make C shape gesture with right hand for 0.5 seconds and hope that it was understood***
So, there may be another drawback to Dingwalls that I didn't remember, at least ones without fretboard markers(fortunately, Combustions have dots). But, its all good, we always had a good time.
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