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Like others, I play up there only occasionally. With a good guitar, reasonably good strings and no tuning issues, I’d say the tone of the bass strings is different, not necessarily ugly. I mean, you can’t play any idea up there and expect it to sound good, but some stuff works. There’s a “hollow” sound that I kind of like, for some ideas, anyway.
Just for fun, try playing the Norwegian Wood riff starting at sixth string twelfth fret, fifth string open and fourth string fourteenth fret. So it’s in A and the open fifth string drones.
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Thanks, but I already knew which forum I was on and also how to make decisions about where to play various parts. Some people think there's no music above the 5th fret, others know that it exists all across the fretboard and that to know your instrument you've got to learn how to use it and when it is or isn't better to move a part up or down the fretboard.
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I actually do venture up to the dusty end of the fretboard quite often,mostly when playing slide.Many Patton etc. tunes require it and I`m a useless lap-style player.It can be catastrophic.
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The root shape pattern in standard tuning spans 12 frets, and a chord will extend a few frets above its root. So if you want to follow a progression/melody through all its shapes, e.g. CAGED, you'll be using 15 frets.
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I have no problem folks playing above the 12th fret.
I'm pretty sure the OP stance was the majority of folks playing up there in the stratosphere. Obviously, some play up there, but I think the point of the original post is how many play up there in the stratosphere. Not sure where the original reason for that post was meant to be directed to. Some folks play up in the stratosphere, others like to keep it closer to Earth. J |
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I have a "rock" acoustic style and play above the 12th fret all the time.
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But seriously, it's fun up there and I make a few bucks. Disclaimer: I consider myself a guitar player who sings, not a singer who plays guitar.
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Out of 33 current tunes on our song list, 21 require notes above the twelfth fret. But I don't stay there throughout an entire song. I like to use open voicings and string skipping and tend to use a large range. Hanging out in one area - high or low - gets boring to my ears. Mr Jelly - I'm surprised at this post. You generally seem to advocate openness to techniques, approaches and styles (as in your recent post about flatpicking). This appears to be trying to convert your opinion into a consensus.
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Actually this thread has taught me something. Consider me a traditionalist as far as my preference of my playing acoustic guitar. Though I have teamed up with a rapper at a gig a couple of times. Personally I think acoustic guitars sound ridiculous above the 12th fret. I see people stating that they can't deal with a 12 fret neck. Sure I've played a lick or two above the 12th fret but nothing so important to a tune that I couldn't deal with a 12 fret guitar. But acoustic guitars are played with what I call an electric guitar style of playing as a regular basis now days. This didn't really take hold until after Taylor guitars showed that acoustic guitars could have good action. So I was wrong and now I see allot of people play above the 12th fret on a regular basis. More power to them, good for them. All is fare when making music.
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I don't see it
When playing above the 12th fret and Flat Picking, here's a YouTube video that expresses my viewpoints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJwaw6tsuU J |
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Just off the top of my head, a couple of Stephen Wake Celtic arrangements, "The Willow Tree" and "Mairi Bhan Og." Both tunes are in CGDGAD tuning. "The Willow Tree" has some 12th fret notes and harmonics while the other has a 15, a 14 and a few 12 fret notes.
The Willow Tree: Mairi Bhan Og:
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