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Fretted, fretless or both?
- Thread starter mrbaloo
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Assuming play is in quotes ("play"), both. My abilities on a fretless suffer from a lack of practice, I'll put it that way.
I think the real conclusion we can draw is that those who like both like threads about which people prefer.
Same here. Every time I whip out my fretted, everyone groans.
I LIKE playing fretted once in a while.
Fretted only. I like the clank of frets, and absolutely despise the "mwah" of a fretless. Sounds like a cow farting to me.
Two P-Basses for me: one fretless, one fretted. The fretted gets 99% of the playtime. Hopefully that will change as fretless skills increase.
I play fretted OK - I can cover what I need to do.
On fretless, I can approximately get the right pitch 99% of the time.... working on actually getting the right pitch almost 100% of the time!
I guess I'm not doing too badly for playing fretless for less than 2 months but I did stretch it by saying I "played" both.
One thing that is helping is working through Ed Friedland's "Walking Bass Lines" again on fretless.
Dan K.
On fretless, I can approximately get the right pitch 99% of the time.... working on actually getting the right pitch almost 100% of the time!
I guess I'm not doing too badly for playing fretless for less than 2 months but I did stretch it by saying I "played" both.
One thing that is helping is working through Ed Friedland's "Walking Bass Lines" again on fretless.
Dan K.
My fretless only gets used on a handful of songs in our set, but I enjoy playing it, and find that I come up with different lines than I do farting around on either of my fretted basses.
Not true at all!
It doesn't sound anything at all like Jaco when my girlfriend farts.
I guess she needs to work on her tone then. Either that or lose some weight.
the "mwahh" can range from in-your-face, to non-existent. It depends on playing style, string-choice, action, & EQ...(and 20 other factors)...
I personally like a little "mwahhh", but don't like it being over-the-top.. I'm more into Gary Willis' tone vs. Jaco's
