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Email Newsletter Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more. It's like you're in suspense approaching a held note and when you nail it, WOW!!! Fiddle, viola, cello, bass. Vega Banjos. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. You could delve into the quarter tones played in Eastern and Middle Eastern Music.

 

For those players who want an authentic old time banjo sound and understand the idea of a fretless instrument, this one is for you.If you enjoy playing the weissenborn you're already playing fretless.

 

He said even seasoned banjo players come in and are humbled by a fretless. And that it's useless beyond the 5th fret. But I'm not particularly.I don't know how I am going to set my Reiter aside as I love this banjo to pieces.

 

The fretless is capable of a lot more than one might think. It is not at all a primitive or rudimentary instrument. It is capable of many things.Flagship Series.

 

The fretless banjo does not use the fret wires; instead a solid wood fret board or fingerboard is used and the player simply moves her fingers.Of course not.

 

Free professional setup included on the Goodtime Fretless & Scooped Openback 5-String banjo. Free shipping, shop today!I don't claw it much; my attack doesn't work well with the nylon strings.

 

This banjo was made by Kyle Creed in Galax, Virginia around It has 16 brackets and a fingerboard covered with formica veneer.Brad Leftwich's transcriptions are great, especially when he does different players' takes on the same tune.

 

What Is a Fretless Banjo? forum? Really keeps you engaged and in the moment.

 

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Using light-gauge strings on the fretless banjo will aid in the longevity of the neck.

 

And that it's useless beyond the 5th fret.

 

The fiddle is different because it pretty much dictates which finger you use for which note, while on longer instruments I find it more flexible.

 

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Second, some tunes employ lot's of slides on the third to fourth fret, slides allow for some inexactness; but you can use that to better learn where the note should be.

 

If you enjoy playing the weissenborn you're already playing fretless.

 

Secondly, you've got to develop and ear for when you've fretted to the right pitch.

 

Goodtime® Fretless and Scooped Openback Banjo forum? And Chris is right

 

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This fine grained, dense, extremely hard, wood creates a stable neck, and imparts a bright, crisp quality to the Goodtime banjo tone.

 

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In fairness to the banjo tech he probably watches lots of talented people come in and pick it up and not get a pleasing sound out of it after many minutes of trying.

 

Seriously, with your experience in music, I can't imagine it will be terribly challenging.

 

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I've found two techniques useful, though I'm by no means decent on fretless.

 

forum? You folks make it all worthwhile and thanks for all your input!

 

Really fretless isnt hard.

 

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Marc who commented in this thread is a dangerously hot picker too, check his stuff out.

 

But best advice of all is to listen to Dan Gellert!

 

And I'm not looking to become a virtuoso

 

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