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Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style
Fretted, fretless, double bass ... to get that natural distortion – and Stewart's drums. But I hate the sound of a bass guitar coming through headphones – it sounds like a mechanical fart.
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How Bakithi Kumalo’s swung, fretless bassline helped create one of Graceland’s defining sounds
From Kumalo's perspective, fretless bass is all about tone first. “The first step, before you play a lot of fancy licks, is to get the right sound one note and one string at a time. It shouldn't ...
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What would Eddie Van Halen’s “Beat It” solo sound like on a fretless guitar? Here it is —no whammy bar required
Guitars come in all shapes and sizes and with everything from four strings — as in the tenor guitar — to 17, as in Gibson’s Style-U model. Because fretless guitars are, you know, fretless ...