fretless electric

[MatthewCurrieImprov]

love those microtones, so so beautiful great work

[norayrss]

so the fingerboard is rosewood or ebony??

[bleedinvirgin]

@supersnipah08 you can try adjusting the neck and the bridge together, but u should use at least .10 gauge strings. first set the bridge to the lowest you can then try adjusting the neck slowly like a quarter spin everyday for 2 or 3 days when u get the enough curve of the neck you ll be set. i hope this helps if not we ll work something else out. and god bless you too :)

[mahngo07]

Very Good Intonation!

[s0d0]

Love your style and I love that guitar. I'm seriously considering getting a fretless.

[MercyfulMasterrika]

Sounds like Turkish music. Great one dude

[cortJPS]

@MercyfulMasterrika cos he is Turkish :)

[cortJPS]

@cortJPS Those melodies can only come to those who grow with those melodies

[RichardGriffith10]

Humbuckers have a higher output, not a higher gain. Gain is what you get at the amp stage.

Humbuckers are easier to distort because they have a higher output, which means it takes less gain to get a saturated signal.

[KillingOptions]

Dude you should totally buy a sitar. Youre playing the exact style they do, youre just bein a puss about it by playing it on a normal guitar.

[CleanAndDistorted]

i have humbuckeres too (stock bc rich ones) there actually not that good, may just be my crappy 10 watt amp but whattya gunna do? XD

[EverythingEverr]

sounds like a citar xD

[Zebonka]

I'm de-fretting a cheap Tele copy for something like this. (Waiting for the filler to dry off). Can't wait to get cranking!

[moqutpar]

Why do I see dents at the 15th 18th and 19th ...hehehahah... non-fretted areas...lol... no but seriously why does it look dented?

[vegetasrevenge]

Nice playing, I always wanted to try fret-less!

You may have inspired me!

[SaintsCheat]

Very Sitar sounding in a way. Has a Hindu Scales written all over that stuff, sweet paying!

[gublhubl]

Wow it have some kind of Pastoirius Sound :D like it!!

[buark]

I liked the tone very much as well, not all fretless sound like this, what kind of effect you use at the amp side?

[hogwild6161]

Very nice playing, I love it when someone goes out of the conventional box, and does it different.

Question, has your strings eaten into the wood at all?

[cerealkiller097]

it sounds like iraqui or music stright up from india, or something... lmao...

[nemogre]

sweet man! Well done! Is there any online guide for converting necks to fretless?

[VLuchansky]

Sounds like Eberhard Weber's bass. Amazing! Good job.

[alloutofdonuts]

what strings do you use with that? Are those Nyon or steel?

[THEiphoneSTUDIO]

that is pretty damn awesome

[CustardCream99]

sounds really nice, pretty unique sound for a guitar, well done on making it yourself!

[BlackDeevil666]

how is this fretless?

[Milos9191]

@BlackDeevil666 hahahahhahahaah well,there r no frets...maybe?:D hahah those r just lines

[Hans423]

@BlackDeevil666 uhhh...no frets..

[sixaxis171]

@Hans423 haha i no right dude

[deadzior]

less means without and fret is that little metal thing that's not there

[Atherfall]

çok hoş baba eline sağlık

[Nitro487]

who needs frets?

[metalero19882]

@Nitro487 when you play that shit it's easy to forget what you are really playing, but it's shreddy time! you DON'T HAVE the time to calculate whoooooaaaaaahhhh ouuuuuuuuaahhhhhhhiiiiii ANNOYING MISTAKES!

[bleedinvirgin]

im glad u all liked it.. so im trying to build a new one and when i get it i ll upload new and better videos.. :)

[jcpozoc]

great playing dude! Nice guitar as well

[jcpozoc]

great playing! You have inspired myself on going fretless

[jcpozoc]

great playing dude, I will try fretless too

[ihaveaverybadcold]

@bleedinvirgin oh my god dude now i have to have a fretless guitar,....thx a lot for feeding my addiction on guitar equiptment haha

[triskelion86]

it also sounds that sweet because he`s playing with his thumb

[orhanc1]

Lovely! Yeah, I instantly thought "Fuck! This sounds Turkish!" Good work!

[Zebonka]

Dayum!!!!

I want to make a fretless but Warmoth don't do it and I'm not sure how to do it for myself. Any ideas?

[bleedinvirgin]

well i tried most of the best places.. but usually they didnt have it or it was way pricy.. so i had a damaged guitar and transformed it to a fretless.. so best bet is get an average guitar ( preferably humbuckered ones) and take the frets of gently, fiil the gaps with wood putty and sand it with thinnest sanding paper.. or order a fretless neck from ebay..hope that ll help for you..

[when2L]

@bleedinvirgin yah just putty the frets and fill them in, sand the hell out of it... did you make that yourself?

[skiggety]

@Zebonka Warmoth sent me a fretless neck. I think it's one of those things you need to get them on the phone for because it's non-standard, but it's easy enough for them to skip a step. They offered to just send me the neck without fret-slots, but I had them cut for frets so I could inlay some wood by myself. They even sent me the fret wire on the side in case I changed my mind.

[Zebonka]

Oh awesome!

I'll have to keep that in mind for my next project ... my last one was to rebuild a guitar I smashed a couple of years ago. I have a video of that but it's kind of long.

Cheers for the heads up, I love the Warmoth site.

[12Guitarz]

@Zebonka - Warmoth will make a fretless neck. I had them make a fretless baritone replacement neck for my Tele (no fret lines), and the cost was about $170 (in 2009). Had my repair guy swap them out, and it plays great. I have some videos of it on my channel "12Guitarz".

[progamer11092]

wut pickups are u using? are those Humbucker pickups????? oh that sounds sweet as hell dude btw

[bleedinvirgin]

thanx :) those are stock duncan design humbuckers on schecter.. i just did a different wiring..

[progamer11092]

@bleedinvirgin well it sounds sweet because Humbuckers are for distortion and i honestly think that it wouldnt of sounded as good without the distortion sound to it, and wut type of guitar are you using?

[bleedinvirgin]

schecter diamond series..

[Koreanflow]

Lol, humbuckers are for distortion? The best jazz guitars in the world use humbuckers. The clean sounds are fat and mellow on a lot of them. Sure, the rock world totally loves em as well-but it would be a very misinformed thing to say that humbuckers are exclusively for distortion.

[FFNProductions]

@Koreanflow Either way, the kids right, Humbuckers have a good natural distortion to them.

[blaa757]

@Koreanflow NONON humbuckers have HIGH gain not distortion silly :P !

[brooklynstudio]

@progamer11092 theres no distortion

[SHooRSooZ]

this is turkish melody .... ( zaten bende türküm ahhahaha :D:D )

[mojochessclassics]

good sound

[theoriginalmcsquare]

sounds like a middle eastern or turkish maqam, definitely some quarter tones in there

[jreynoldswrap]

What was the accident?

[gitarmanda]

That's Turkish melody, isn' it?

[ExadusX]

That's just an improv using Double Harmonic scale I think.

[bleedinvirgin]

yes its turkish melody.. more likely caaled maqam..

[SvenIsHere]

nice playing man..thats an omen body isnt it? same as mine but mine is red / maroon and with a floyd rose

[ziajek00]

awesome. what scale do you use in this? do you play at 12 halfsteps chromatic scale or do you use other division of an octave for example 14 or 10 steps?

pls reply. many thanks

[bleedinvirgin]

in some eastern scales (most of them are based on 12 halfstep system) one particular note is divided into 12 parts in itself and used like that.. i dont know if it helped.. sorry for the belated reply..

[berserkerfunestus]

try flatwound strings

[freekyickydeek]

so... duz fretless mean u dnt hav those lil bars on da neck?

[somehornybastard]

Yes, but for the love of God, use proper English.

[RandomoviesAreFun23]

man you failed at knowledge

[ArcticaDream]

Yeah, those are the so called 'frets'...

[falige]

are you trying to sound illiterate or are you just retarded?

[freekyickydeek]

yea. imma fauckin tard.

[X6Solo]

Amazing, I Love the scale you're using in this one :)

[kidwhoskates]

looks like a schecter

[CypherThanatos]

it is read description xD

[bleedinvirgin]

thank you for all the good comments.. hopefully ill get my guitar back in a month i have new projects to upload..and in my other video im using an ebow..

[yanmingyuyu]

dude........ GREAT JOB MAKING THAT SICK GUITAR!

[TheGuitarTheory]

Fernandes sustainer would be awesome with this dude.

[Bassmastajazzyj]

sounds like a sitar. thats sick

[soptamer]

awesome!! +5

[moe354sa]

check out 'mushroom slides' if yer into microtonal guitar..

[DaTimeHat]

Someone get this man an Ebow, stat!

[bleedinvirgin]

i ve it already.. thanks..

[gaara224]

Bad accident??

[matcomarket]

I like this man. Very cool tone.

[Kubalivre]

Don't forget, to be in tune, you need to play over the frets, not in the same place as a guitar. Great playing, though. Haunting.

[kratanuva725]

its called microtonal music fool. It's suposed to sound out of tune.

[Kubalivre]

Noodling on an exotic sounding scale isn't "microtonal music".

[kratanuva725]

I see him playing inbetween the frets, thats the power of quarter tones baby! lol.

[thingy86]

reminds of the great micheal manring.

[magirecords2004]

Northeast African vibe. I love it!

Add some sustain.

[bleedinvirgin]

i ve to thank you all who actually spared time to watch this vid and comment.. what i played was all turkish maqams..i ve been in Turkey for a long time and unfortunately youtube was banned here.. but at the end we ve figured out a way..so thanx for comments again..

[miriyaa]

You are rocking with a fretless guitar, that's not turkish music. Keep improving, you got a lot to learn.

[orkancan]

ist Turkish ;)

[066637938joksa]

looool....sound funny...but stilllllllll great playing

[mattchurchill]

Nice vid man, thanks for posting.

[theeagleslayer]

It sounds like Turkish music :)

[Timah93]

This is really cool, nice job!

it sounds a little bit like some of the Pink Floyd slide guitar stuff

[bigZjujuman]

dot they really make fretless electric guitars???

[ZaphodBeeblebrox65]

I know that a company called Vigier make them at least and I think Agile does at least one, more than that I don't know though.

[fjferd]

Sounds like a Turkish Taksim to me (could be wrong). Nice playing dude.

[rOckGarryxD]

exelent respect =DD'

[speleoswarren]

fucking awesome.

[oggiedoggy]

but yeah that is pretty cool. How long did it take to build?

[oggiedoggy]

*pictures asian village in secluded mountain-top forest*

[garanwill]

totally

[GuyWithNoHat]

@oggiedoggy It sounds more Eastern Middle East.

[gull72]

sound like in the wild...very cool sound.

[stefanouscarred]

very cool!!!

[djphatd]

wow sounds like a sitar, amazing!

[Jlife13300]

This is not a fretless guitar. Nice amateur playing though.

[simonghetti]

it is fretless, its got markings where the frest are but not actual bits of metal divding them

[freaxxx]

it is. the white lines are fret markers, not actual frets

[CipollaErMeyo]

it has not frets, but white lines on the fretboard.

[Saladin126]

lol, you're retarded. That's a fretless guitar. It just has markers. If you couldn't tell that was fretless just by the sound... you should probably not play guitar or pass judgement on it being played.

[Jlife13300]

Okay you dork. Obviously everyone has informed me with that being a fretless guitar. Now you just want to comment to show everyone you know what you're talking about. And not knowing about a fretless guitar is irrelevant with being able to play a regular guitar. Such a big talker when you have nothing to show off.

[Saladin126]

lol yea, sorry man. I didn't bother to scroll down til after I'd posted it. Dick move on my part... but when is posting bitchy comments not a dick move?

[FernandRaynaud]

Very nice, most of those people playing madly distorted fretless guitars don't have much of a feel for the medium. OF COURSE it sounds oud-like, that's mostly what an oud is: a fretless guitar.

[nickwellings]

Nice tones and great melodies and phrases.! You play well!

[DoCWaSaBe]

thats arabic music, check out the oud

[doulis69]

get an Oud

[Logster505]

Dude! That sounds so awesome! I wonder how it will sound with distortion.

[strikeatic]

it sounds very greek. awesome

[alastorskye]

that sounds good :)

it's really original, it's your own sound, feel proud of it ^^

keep it up!

[DrHischnick]

Awesome! Sounds like an electrical oud! Sweet! 5*

[yousmelllikefries]

cool what were you playing,was it just improvised... it sorta sounded like something the doors would play

[QuamCelerrime]

That's an awesome sound you have going there.

[vikdumb]

i need a fretless neck and i can't find one except for a bass where'd you get it

[joninawhitecoat]

Get the frets removed and filled in, it cost me about $250/£130 to get it done.

[quaz18]

you could also just do it yourself for way cheaper.

[MadcapMan]

Sitar kinda sound. Very cool.

[Fretboarder7]

What scale are you playing in?

[Memq]

this is so amazing.

[adzy31]

I really love the sound of this :) what happened to the guitar in the accident?

[bleedinvirgin]

:) car accident.. broken headstock and damaged fretboard.. look at 15th fret place you ll see the damage..thank you for your comment.. i m gonig to upload some more this week probably...

[naughty00e]

I gave you 4 stars, it sounds cool. You should play it clean like that with another guitar doing metal distortion with really fast picking.

[naughty00e]

Cool. Try using light guauge flatwound jazz strings, and polishing the fretboard zealously with sandpaper, glazing it with something like furniture polish, and resanding with fine grit paper.

[wraithtube]

that was cool! sounded arabian.