ficelles
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Maruszczyk Frog Omega 5 fretless to be exact.
NBD: Frog
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57joonya
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Wow ,
Your seem to be very well equipped with fretless basses! I’ve always appreciated an excellent fretless player .
Very nice looking instruments
Your seem to be very well equipped with fretless basses! I’ve always appreciated an excellent fretless player .
Very nice looking instruments
KyAnne
Friend of Leo's
^^^ I second That!!!
ficelles
Tele-Holic
Cool!
I’ve never gigged with a fretless bass.
Gotta try it.
I’ve never gigged with a fretless bass.
Gotta try it.
I will someday own a Frog Omega headless in the blue "ocean" burst with the big Delano oval quad pickups.
ficelles
Tele-Holic
I will someday own a Frog Omega headless in the blue "ocean" burst with the big Delano oval quad pickups.
I'm guessing that like me you're spending time on that Maruszczyk instrument configurator page
ficelles
Tele-Holic
One does not sing. One tried once, but one's microphone was removed.
Nice guitar.
I spent about a year playing/practicing fretless and the best I ever got out at it was 'adequate'. I could play it with intonation, but couldn't really figure out how to really USE the fretless aspect, so I went back to my frets.
I spent about a year playing/practicing fretless and the best I ever got out at it was 'adequate'. I could play it with intonation, but couldn't really figure out how to really USE the fretless aspect, so I went back to my frets.
I try, with varying degrees of success.
Singing and playing fretless.. I've had it happen a few times well enough to give me hope. I can do it on songs with a strong melody and strong bassline in keys friendly to both. Basically a cool party trick. Night after night in random keys 100 songs a night, some of which don't have strongly pitched melodies.... forget about it.
It’s not any more difficult than with fretted. Sting did ok.
I love that body shape. Have configurationalized many on the web. Their build quality is very good too. I’ve played a Jake that was perfectly built.
Yeah, and we're all, everyone of us, obviously just as talented as Sting. </sarcasm>
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Nah. It’s the same. People get in their heads about it. It’s the same notes. If you can sing and play a guitar or fretted bass it’s the same. I think in a band context your brain takes over and starts to automate the intonation.
I’ve been thinking about this. See, I’ve wanted to play fretless bass since I heard Floyd’s Hey You. But the only experience I’ve had with a fretless instrument is a fiddle. And they are very finicky…a little pressure changes the pitch a lot. But now (thank you Killing Floor) I’m thinking that the string length is so much longer that (literally) there’s a lot more wiggle room to play on pitch.
Glissando is your friend. You’re never sharp or flat, you’re just sliding!
Seriously, a “flat” landing on frets makes a buzz. On fretless you can recover nicely with vibrato. Violin was my first instrument. Don’t be intimidated.
