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Location: Simpsonville, SC | ...Wab...uhhh.....we where just kidding about rooming together in Amelia Isle.... |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Originally posted by Old Tele man:
...I watch both the neck markers as well as my fingers...I play by "position" not by "feel" since I play many different guitars. this is the reason why i try to buy guitars with the same scale. |
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Location: North Carolina | Depends upon what I'm doing. If I'm leaping from the first position to way up the neck, sure I'll look. Usually when I look it's because I still can't believe I'm actually doing all that great stuff I'm hearing. |
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| I finally glance a gander at the neck of the guitar only when it is needed now. Noticed this change in the last year or so. It is just familiarity with the instrument and it only works on songs you've practiced or played many times.
The Bass is another animal though, at least for me, I have bought a head set and an ear button to use when I play and sing with it. It is the only way I can do it so far because I can't be stuck to a mic and try to see the neck. I am fairly lucky to be better than average at figureing out the scales and odd styles of various musicians but I have no "Familiarity" with the Bass. It is still a new instrument to me and if I don't look... ..I slide right up a fret short or buzz a note by landing right on top of a fret.
Bass is a real monster to tame, there are so many tricks to learn to create the various sonuds within a song. Changing from popping or slap up through some scales to quietly fingering through the notes and adding the sub bass note for the rumble. I find it an amazing instrument and at times very difficult to play. Never respected the bass player until I actually tried to play bass.
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Location: Indiana | I never have to look at either hand or the neck. That is unless I want to hit the right notes. Sometimes looking doesn't help.
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by lanaki:
jose feliciano doesn't watch his hands or the frets. Neither does Doc Watson. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | or Ray Charles |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I find the hot girls (now mostly MILF's) a little distracting, so I'll look at the back wall, or off into space, or at the headstock or close my eyes. Then look at the fretboard when I need to do a lead type thing. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I find the hot girls (now mostly MILF's) a little distracting, so I'll look at the back wall . . ."
WTF's the fun in THAT???? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I spend much less time looking at the side markers than I use to, primarily because I'm reading music. If I glance away from the music to look at the fretboard, which I do occasionally to place that one-off screwy chord in the upper register, I'm very apt to lose my place in the music, particularly where lines jump from page to page for repeats and codas. That is my biggest gripe . . . that publishers are so cheap that they create very complex and confusing scores in order to save a few pages. For a guitarist, reaching up to turn pages (we did one number a few weeks ago that had a five-page turn) means the music stops. I usually rewrite everything to two pages and spread it across the music stand so I never have to turn pages. Maybe composers could just write all guitar music so that every page turn occured on an Em11! |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
or Ray Charles hmmm...didn't know ray played/used to play guitar. learn sumthin' new every day. |
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Do you watch while you play???
