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Posted by Fred Miller --Previous Message--
on 2/3/2005, 11:02 pm, in reply to "slap/pop on fretless"
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Hey Josh,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say you're begining to "shred" the finger board... I've been using the "pop & slap" technique since I first saw Larry do it on the King Biskit Flower Hour, early "70's"... I've never damaged a neck with it... I can tell you that I made a mess of one fretless neck by using across the neck vibrato... (even that took several years though). If you're grinding a set of round wound strings back n forth against the finger board, you WILL damage it in time. You'd just have to adapt a "forward-aft" vibrato, and abandon that "side to side" vibrato that fretted instrument player can use... besides, the "forward aft" vibrato sounds better anyway...
Hope that helps a little...
: Hi,
: I recently started playing bass, and have
: just gotten interested in slap technique.
: My bass is a carvin LB75F with ebony
: fingerboard, uncoated. The problem is that
: I am starting to shred the fingerboard a bit
: with the pop slap stuff. Someone
: recommended to me that I have the
: fingerboard coated with epoxy or something
: similar, but I was wondering if anyone had
: an alternative suggestion. I thought maybe
: a brass block, cut flush with fingerboard
: and mounted between the bottom of the
: fingerboard and the upper pickup might
: absorb some of the abuse? I'd appreciate
: any advice.
:
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