Fingerboard Quotes

• The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.

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  Tal Farlow

  Music   Years   Sound  

  5059

• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

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  Bill Crow

  Song   Morning   Reading  

  3804

• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

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  Brian May

  Spring   Knitting Needles   Interesting  

  5063

• I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

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  Terry Kath

  Worry   Movement   Busy  

  4279

• ... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

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  Alvin Lee

  Music   Voice   Gigs  

  4739

• Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

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  Allan Holdsworth

  Eye   Thinking   Hands  

  3841