Some of the best players

[solspirit]

Use scalloped fretboard?
. Is it better?

 

[Chistopher]

My fingers don't touch the fretboard, so I don't know

 

[Demanic]

More a question of "better for what?"
Playing cowboy chords or distorted "stop and chop", probably not. More for lead style playing, like Vai or Holdsworth.

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[Rex_Rocker]

I guess if you got a light touch and do lots of more than full step bends and wide vibrato. Otherwise, it's super pitchy if you fret too hard.

I have a light left hand touch. It's my right hand that gets the most physical. But I don't particularly like them, TBH. Especially aesthetically. I prefer HUGE frets, rather.

 

[JOLLY]

Is it better?

Not for the way I play. I dig in too much.

 

[solspirit]

Not for the way I play. I dig in too much.

When I was drinking a lot on CR I started playing really light. Iknow you're not drinking now but díd ÿoú used to dig in more when you were sober?

 

[JOLLY]

When I was drinking a lot on CR I started playing really light. Iknow you're not drinking now but díd ÿoú used to dig in more when you were sober?

I don't know, I'm probably about the same either way. Actually, I have a pretty light touch playing rhythm, but I dig in on leads.

 

[Aceman]

Almost all of the best players - don't. A very very very few, do.

 

[beaubrummels]

I can't stand scalloped. The strings feel like cheese cutter wire to me when I can't sense the fretboard.

 

[Mincer]

My #1 & #2 have scalloped boards. I tried it because of John McLaughlin, then Ritchie Blackmore. For how I play, I absolutely prefer it.

 

[Sirion]

I have one. I generally prefer it for better control of intonation, but it is hardly a must, and I have never seen the need to have a neck scalloped on a non-scalloped guitar.

 

[solspirit]

Almost all of the best players - don't. A very very very few, do.

Lol. . . Read it again

 

[Clint 55]

It's an awesome feel. Your fingers only touch the string and not the fretboard. So it encourages you to finesse the string better.

 

[Demanic]

I can't stand scalloped. The strings feel like cheese cutter wire to me when I can't sense the fretboard.

They don't feel like that anyway?

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[LLL]

They don't feel like that anyway?

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Practice more. You'll get actual callouses on your fingertips that can handle the strings without hurting.

 

[El Dunco]

Practice more. You'll get actual callouses on your fingertips that can handle the strings without hurting.

Hahaha, ouch! I’m just guessing but I’m pretty sure D-man has been playing long enough to know this! :crying:

From the decades I’ve been playing now, my fingers aren’t so much visibly calloused as the skin on the pads is much tougher than the other and doesn’t dent or hurt from strings.

 

[Demanic]

Practice more. You'll get actual callouses on your fingertips that can handle the strings without hurting.

Because playing the bass won't do that on it's own.

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[Mincer]

I can't stand scalloped. The strings feel like cheese cutter wire to me when I can't sense the fretboard.

If that happens, you are working too hard. One thing it does do is train your hand to use the least amount of force possible to execute a note.

 

[NegativeEase]

So I broke my hybrid picking ring finger in December, and my monster callouse went away after 3 months in a splint/cast.

It toke A LOT of riffing to get it back fully (took 4 weeks)

 

[LLL]

It toke A LOT of riffing to get it back fully (took 4 weeks)

A fact that eludes many trying to get better at playing.

Like they say, "use it or lose it".