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Fender Jazz only with 20 frets; why?
- Thread starter Green Lantern
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Yes. Now everyone needs to stop bashing Fender and Fender fans with these innocuous questions.
As has been said, some of us like playing close to the end of the fretboard with the RH, some of the time. Works better with 20 frets, for me and for some others. 20 is all I need anyway ... I'll get up past the twelfth fret with some frequency, but I don't think I ever get up to the Twentieth. So ... different strokes for different folks.
Ya gotta love Talkbass. Where else can you go to waste so much time talking about something thats both so personal and so relatively inconsequential to probably 90%+ of players. When I play my Fenders I don't worry about the number of frets even when I'm soloing above the 12th fret. It is what it is, you simply adapt. I have a bunch of basses with from 21-24 too.
We truly are the KINGS of making mountains out of molehills since bass time began.
We truly are the KINGS of making mountains out of molehills since bass time began.
Well, this thread has really ruined my day. I've been paying too much for my basses.
Let's say i bought my last PBass for $1000.
1000 divided by 84=11.90 per note. Say I stepped up to 21 frets. 1000 divided by 88=11.36 per note. Say I stepped up to 24 frets.
1000 divided by 100=10.00 per note!
Leo ripped me off.
Jeez, now I'm wondering how cheap those notes would be if I added a couple of strings.
Let's say i bought my last PBass for $1000.
1000 divided by 84=11.90 per note. Say I stepped up to 21 frets. 1000 divided by 88=11.36 per note. Say I stepped up to 24 frets.
1000 divided by 100=10.00 per note!
Leo ripped me off.
Jeez, now I'm wondering how cheap those notes would be if I added a couple of strings.
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Well, if you play slow, you are really getting ripped off. Play faster. The price per note goes down. Never, ever play country and western. Those guys always sing about being broke and miserable because they really overpaid per note.
Or you could just go fretless. If you count all the mistake notes that aren't quite what you wanted but are close, the price per note approaches zero. The more clams you hit, the better the bargain your bass was.
Or you could just go fretless. If you count all the mistake notes that aren't quite what you wanted but are close, the price per note approaches zero. The more clams you hit, the better the bargain your bass was.
Sure, but how else are we going to get umpteen pages and two weeks worth of bickering out of an otherwise mundane topic?
They made that thing for like 6 months before Steve Bailey went with Warwick and that bass just stopped being made because it is another "Oh it isn't a PB or JB like it used to be so I won't buy it" Just like all the other models they have put out and just don't sell
The good thing about most Fender Basses is replaceable necks. (I cannot recall if Fender ever produced a glued on neck bass or through body bass)
You can always replace the stock neck with an after market neck that has more frets.
You can always replace the stock neck with an after market neck that has more frets.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Then why when you get a shave at a barber, they use a single blade? Single sharp blade works best.
Sorry to answer the derailer...
Oh really? Listen to me pal, that's my bass (the black SB sig. JB6 on the pic above) and I bought it new in '09 because it was not a JB like it used to be (not to mention that I own vintage and modern american fender basses). Awesome bass, probably the best fender production bass model ever. And it was discontinued just because Steve went with his new signature warwick 6 (and plenty of cash over it) back in 2010. Now you go and play your german bass and stay happy, Hans loves you. (And FYI I owned MANY german warwicks in the past including a thumb neck-through body 6 string. Streamer LX6, Streamer Stage One, Thub bolt on etc. so I know what I'm talking about).
I know I'm just a has-been, but I don't think I've ever gone above the 15th fret unless I was just messing around. Never when performing. And I suspect more bassists could say the same than not. That's not to say if you use or even just like more frets you shouldn't indulge yourself. Have at it!
By the time Leo Fender designed Music Man and G&L basses, he had gotten feedback than 21 frets would be useful.
A really great bassist, Victor Bailey, died today, and he created some powerful music on a Jazz Bass with four strings and twenty frets.
That said, I think his signature model had 22 frets.
That said, I think his signature model had 22 frets.
What, Victor died today?A really great bassist, Victor Bailey, died today, and he created some powerful music on a Jazz Bass with four strings and twenty frets.
That said, I think his signature model had 22 frets.
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Victor Bailey RIP. He was a brilliant bass player/musician and a geat teacher as well!And yes Doc, his signature model has 22 frets indeed. [/EDIT]
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