Fretboard bends!!

[astrozombie]

Am i the only one who does this?

if your guitar has jumbo frets (or scalloped board for that matter)

when you fret a note wiggle your finger IN towards the board.

its a weird vibrato technique.

has anyone done this before?

 

[Stratovarious]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I do this.

 

[Robert Delahunt]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I prefer not to do this, as it's too much pressure to have to exert to bend, and because I feel that it's a bad habit. I use standard violin-wannabe vibrato with fingers on a non-tremolo guitar, and with tremolo I try to use the tremolo (floating) for a more "natural" sounding vibrato.

That's just me.

 

[Robbiedbee]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I do this occasionally. But I also use the aforementioned 'violin wannabe' vibrato too, but mainly the wide rock vibrato, done by moving your finger up and down parallel to the fret.

I tend to do this type of bend on the E, A and D strings. I don't actually do it conciously, I just do it sometimes.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I think these are usually referred to as "violin bends" because it comes close to mimicing the way a violinist can slide up or down the fretboard with a whole chord, "bending" the chord

THough when you think about it, practically ALL string bending is to mimic the way a violinist can "steplessly" move a not around. The "classic" sideways bending itself on the other hand is much less common on fretless instruments, practically nonexistent for the most part

 

[Robert Delahunt]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I think these are usually referred to as "violin bends" because it comes close to mimicing the way a violinist can slide up or down the fretboard with a whole chord, "bending" the chord

THough when you think about it, practically ALL string bending is to mimic the way a violinist can "steplessly" move a not around. The "classic" sideways bending itself on the other hand is much less common on fretless instruments, practically nonexistent for the most part

Some people call them this, but the name annoys me greatly. In practice, they're nothing like how a violinist plays anyways. Just my pet pieve.

 

[emilio]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

i do. almost never but i do

 

[CGord]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

Do you mean push down harder on the string? Can't say that I intentionally do that.

 

[fingerace]

Re: Fretboard bends!!

I don't do that.

I just bend up the traditional way. But if I want to bend down and I forgot to do a prebend I reach for the headstock and bend the whole neck. I try not to do that but during the solo I can't think of the guitar and I just bend it. BAD thing to do but a lot of artists use it...

my vibrato is BB king style...