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Fretless guitar playing with frets

Ararat66 - 9-20-2009 at 02:19 AM

Hi Folks

I think this piece came up a long time ago, but I was just looking through favourites and wanted to share these two videos from John Abercrombie with oud in mind;

firstly this one (which isn't Alice in Wonderland btw) which is just sublime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD3H97TNyxY

and this one which is a great thing to do for practice (or anything) which is improvising on one string

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hb7cWAVTXs

In both of these I love amongst other things the fluidity of his left hand, just beautiful to watch and he plays as if the frets are not there!!

Cheers

Leon:)

arsene - 9-20-2009 at 08:44 AM

1st one reminds me of indian sitar (with the drone and all), second one is kind of bouzouki liek every now and then (bouzouki playing involves a lot of singe string soloing!)

great stuff, thanks for posting!