Posts : 2974 Join date : 2009-03-20 Age : 58 Location : Birch Bay, WA
Subject: Faking a fretless tone Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:36 pm
This trick seems to work while in the middle of a song, instead of while doing solo parts. It involves palming the tremolo arm while plucking the strings. As you do this run your scales, and give the arm a slight SWOON downward and upward into each note. With practice, you can replicate the slippery tone of not having frets. It isn't a perfect fake, but it's not too far off.
Subject: Re: Faking a fretless tone Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:45 pm
I seem to do it by accident After I posted Fallen Angel a few different bassists told me I had a nice fretless tone, and it was a fretted Schecter. I'll try the whammy trick to see how it works for me. Most know I own a fretless so they assume it is one when they hear the muahhh
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Posts : 2974 Join date : 2009-03-20 Age : 58 Location : Birch Bay, WA
Subject: Re: Faking a fretless tone Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:47 pm
I think that's really cool, Jeff!
Chowderboots
Posts : 2197 Join date : 2009-03-22 Age : 32 Location : Kirkistan, WA
Subject: Re: Faking a fretless tone Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:07 pm
Hahaha me included!
Need to get my trems working better...but don't have the time
After I posted Fallen Angel a few different bassists told me I had a nice fretless tone, and it was a fretted Schecter. I'll try the whammy trick to see how it works for me. Most know I own a fretless so they assume it is one when they hear the muahhh 
