lownote Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Playing Dereham Blues Festival yesterday we did one late night nightclub gig in almost complete darkness. Eek. But playing fretless, as is what I do, came in very useful. Interestingly if I consciously tried to feel for the right note things went pearshaped, while leaving it to mussel memory worked fine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Mussel memory? Sounds fishy to me…did you play scales? 😁 🐟 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 6 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said: Mussel memory? Sounds fishy to me…did you play scales? 😁 🐟 No he plays Bass for cods sake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, lownote said: Playing Dereham Blues Festival yesterday we did one late night nightclub gig in almost complete darkness. Eek. But playing fretless, as is what I do, came in very useful. Interestingly if I consciously tried to feel for the right note things went pearshaped, while leaving it to mussel memory worked fine. I do find the same. Playing fretless in the dark is less scary than fretted for me too. “Wrong” notes can be slid into “right” ones, and with a bit more top rolled off, slight intonation imperfections can be less noticeable. Whereas I find a wrongly fretted note is more obvious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boodang Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Muscle memory works well but fluorescent dots work better! Had my fretless jazz fitted with fluorescent side and fingerboard dots, and now I love a dark stage not least because dots floating in the dark look rather cool. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 drop any clams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 On 10/07/2022 at 11:58, oldslapper said: I do find the same. Playing fretless in the dark is less scary than fretted for me too. “Wrong” notes can be slid into “right” ones, and with a bit more top rolled off, slight intonation imperfections can be less noticeable. Whereas I find a wrongly fretted note is more obvious. It might be less scary to you but, to the other musicians, "wrong" notes and "slight intonation imperfections" might be really scary to them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 3 hours ago, lowdown said: It might be less scary to you but, to the other musicians, "wrong" notes and "slight intonation imperfections" might be really scary to them. Its jazz, there are no wrong notes. 🦧 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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