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Title: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: Frank on October 12, 2009, 12:06:57 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9KEE4lotJo

Ned Evett playing a fretless strat with glass fingerboard. Definitely interesting, not sure I'd want to play chords on it though.

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: blue on October 12, 2009, 04:52:21 PM

i saw this guy (pretty sure it was him) supporting Steve Vai in Dublin.  pretty impressive stuff.  he seems to have no trouble playing chords on the fretless.  i got a cd, and to be honest most of the time you don't even realise it's not a normal guitar.

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: Afghan Dave on October 12, 2009, 05:31:30 PM

Can you get that with the Buzz Feiten Tuning System?  :P

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: dave_mc on October 12, 2009, 08:08:27 PM

i saw someone playing a fretless vigier supporting satch in belfast... not sure if it was the same guy, the name sounds vaguely familiar but i couldn't see enough of his face in the youtube vid to be sure.

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 12, 2009, 11:50:07 PM

Sounds good!

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: MDV on October 12, 2009, 11:54:33 PM

I wouldnt mind trying a fretless guitar. Looks like fun. I have one I might butcher too...

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: Supernaught on October 13, 2009, 12:44:58 AM

He played at a music festival in my village and stayed at the hotel I work at.   I had a good chat with him about guitars etc. but unfortunately never got to see him play.   He got rave reviews from everyone that saw him though.

I own a 6 string fretless bass which i bough online without ever having tried a fretless and was expecting it to be a really hard learning curve, (Les Claypool once said going from 4 string fretted to 6 string fretless was like trying to play a trumpet!) but I actually found it quite easy; you just need to have a really good ear, which I think I do, and a bit of fretboard experience so you can play without looking!

Im not sure an electric guitar would be quite so easy though, especially with full chords.   I have my intonation set on a slight curve to compensate for barre finger angle, but Ned really has it nailed.

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: Matt77 on October 13, 2009, 06:21:58 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBLGslXdWO8&feature=related

Ron Thal does a lot of this stuff too.
I like the non shreddy slide bits

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: Davey on October 13, 2009, 06:32:26 PM

Quote from: dave_mc on October 12, 2009, 08:08:27 PM

i saw someone playing a fretless vigier supporting satch in belfast... not sure if it was the same guy, the name sounds vaguely familiar but i couldn't see enough of his face in the youtube vid to be sure.

that was Ron Thal aka Bumblefoot ... Brass fretboard Vigier. check this video out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc329X_8bFo  Freak kitchen with a guest appearance by Ron on backing vocals and a solo

Title: Re: looks like we're ALL doing it wrong
Post by: sgmypod on October 13, 2009, 06:33:13 PM

not sure like the sound of that