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these guys make guitar and bass strings that are color coded. i think they have a set that alternates black and white for a piano kind of look. she sure is pointing her head at where she wants to look, isn't she. which might lead us to our next question: beyond the dots, should one look at the fingerboard when playing? |
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I miss the dots
I am sure I saw Dale Kavanaugh with Amadeus String Duo move her dots when she cappoed her guitar. I'd put money on it...
Do what works... I have no doubt you could get used to not having dots but if you like them, go for it.
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All my guitars currently have dots, while actually I don't really like them. I don't have a really good reason not to, I guess it might just be solely aesthetic, just personal taste I guess. However, I don't like being dependent on them, as whenever I pick up a guitar without them, I tend to have to really pay attention to what I am doing or I might make a mistake. I purchased a used guitar off of ebay recently that I believe does not have them, so hopefully I will be able to get used to playing without them.
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I play many different guitars -- some are non-standard scale lengths, some have up to 27 easily accessible frets, some are nylon string, some electric, some steel string acoustic, one is a bass. Yeah -- I depend on the dots. Especially during that first few minutes of putting one guitar down and picking up the other.
Back in the days when I only had one guitar that I played a lot I could do most anything without paying much attention to the dots.
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Why don't some builder put dots in? Tradition. I like to put one in on the 7th which is good enough for me. I had a guitar in stock when a guitar student from a local university came to see me. At his request I let him take the guitar to his professor to get his opinion on it. He liked the guitar but would not let his student use it because it had a 7th fret dot marker... Yup, tradition.
I since learned it is better if I am building for back stock to just leave the dot off. It is real easy to put one in but not so easy to take one out. |
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I thought I missed the dots after reading this so went out and bought a sticker set - turns out I dont miss them at all - they were only only gtar 2 days
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