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I played BassChat owner Steve CK's Pedulla a few years back, a remarkable instrument
IIRC he had changed the Bartolini's to Alembics
Fretless Fascination
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I played BassChat owner Steve CK's Pedulla a few years back, a remarkable instrument
IIRC he had changed the Bartolini's to Alembics
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True, I'd link to the article about it but I'm hopeless
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Didn’t listen to it but I assume so.
It was from an interview with Alannah Myles, the bass was a synth line played by the producer of the track. Other mentions of a live bass being sampled and played back on synth.
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A nice article Google threw at me:
https://www.bassplayer.com/artists/the-history-of-the-fretless-bass
https://www.bassplayer.com/artists/the-history-of-the-fretless-bass
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Haha funny article. But it ain't so hard to play fretless to be honest. My fretless is unlined and only has dot markers on the side of the neck at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th and so on frets.
Over the last weeks, since my current fretless is new and has a custom made neck, I kept pushing the instrument into unsuspecting bass- and guitar players hands yelling "have a go!".
Those who had problems finding the positioning of fingers all improved a whole lot within 5 minutes already. My current guitarist Daniel even played perfect pitch right from the start.
I simply told the guys playing: Let one open string drone along to find the right position easily since that gives you something to relate to. This helped them heaps. Once you've found the right spot, muscle memory will do the rest for you.
Proper left hand positioning (ie don't always use your index finger as a starting point!) does help a lot though I must add.
In short: Don't fret. Playing a fretless is not at all hard.
Over the last weeks, since my current fretless is new and has a custom made neck, I kept pushing the instrument into unsuspecting bass- and guitar players hands yelling "have a go!".
Those who had problems finding the positioning of fingers all improved a whole lot within 5 minutes already. My current guitarist Daniel even played perfect pitch right from the start.
I simply told the guys playing: Let one open string drone along to find the right position easily since that gives you something to relate to. This helped them heaps. Once you've found the right spot, muscle memory will do the rest for you.
Proper left hand positioning (ie don't always use your index finger as a starting point!) does help a lot though I must add.
In short: Don't fret. Playing a fretless is not at all hard.
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