Care to describe the de-fretting process? _________________ Fabulous powers were revealed to me the day I held my magic Suhr(d) aloft and said "by the power of great scale!"
actually it's quite easy, in fact I did it with only a pair of needle nose pliers (a pretty good, new pair)
For me, of course, I took the strings off, then I tried to get the pliers to grab the fret near the ends of the fret, as far to the end as possible.
I then squeezed as hard as I could to hold onto the fret, and pull up with a steady slow motion, trying not to just rip the thing out. If you can just get it out a little it will wiggle free nicely.
After doing two, taking a break around half might be good on your hand if you don't want bruises from squeezing.
If you are doing a strat, or other guitars too, use a soldering iron because they glue their frets in, and the iron will heat them up and they will pop out.
After playing one for a couple weeks now, it's great, and very freeing, frets seem so in the way now. There is a lot of technique involved.
I'm actually almost done writing a little fretless method book, and they will be putting it up on www.unfretted.com as soon as I type it up. It's really just a very technical book to gain control over playing a fretless instrument.
I've got some pictures of the guitar at zebox.com/timmirth along with more songs.
Thanks for the interest,
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:45 am Post subject:
Interesting stuff. I enjoyed the clips. How do you play chords on the fretless? That seems to be the most difficult thing to play on such a guitar. Do you use standard tuning? _________________ Ed Yoon
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as far as chords go, it's not that bad if you don't want to play bar chords, and let's face it, bar chords ain't all that anyway. But you do have to be more precise, no more just floppying your finger down on a spot knowing the fret will save you. I think it's just a matter of caring about the sound. Now on the little straight jazz tune there, I was sight reading the chart, and a couple times I come a little low, so that is very difficult to do, because you have to be more precise.
I think playing on the fretless makes you more conscious of what you are playing, instead of just doodling.
As far as tuning, the acoustic is down a whole step, the electric is standard tuning.
You tune lower because low frequencies come out better than the hi, and the less tension the better sustain.
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