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View Poll Results: How often do you play beyond the 7th fret ?
Frequently 132 60.00%
Occasionally 57 25.91%
Rarely 28 12.73%
Never 3 1.36%
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Old 02-23-2021, 08:49 AM
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Wasn't it Chet Atkins who once said, "There ain't no money above the 5th fret."


I love that one.

I once read a joke (which most of us have probably heard but it’s topical so I’ll post it):

What’s the difference between a rocker and a jazz guitarist? The rocker plays 3 chords for 3000 people, while the jazz guitarist plays 3000 chords for 3 people.
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Old 02-23-2021, 08:53 AM
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Wasn't it Chet Atkins who once said, "There ain't no money above the 5th fret."
I am glad I don’t play for money.
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Old 02-23-2021, 08:56 AM
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I have no idea who said it, and I probably have it a little wrong but I like this one;

Above the 5th fret is the upper register

Below it is the Cash Register!
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Old 02-23-2021, 11:29 AM
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I don't play classical or what I'd call "real" jazz, but I do like to work out arrangements that are up pretty high. If you stay up there long enough it can start to sound normal. Then jump back down to the real normal, and it can seem oddly large.

Nice arrangement Brent! Great playing/singing too
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Old 02-23-2021, 11:46 AM
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I play Cats in the Cradle often but don't bother with a capo and that's up at the same place Harry Chapin played it with a capo - 7th fret.

Also My Sweet Lady; Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada); Poems, Prayers and Promises; Rocky Mountain High; Peace Train - there's probably more but that's enough.

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Old 02-23-2021, 11:49 AM
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Above the 5th fret is the upper register

Below it is the Cash Register!
Funny, but at my level I'm not getting paid in either register.

Regardless, I do spend quite a bit of time above the 5th; just in the last couple days I can think of playing the following:

Here comes the sun
Hallelujah (Buckley version)
Wanted Dead or Alive
Fragile
Sir Duke

All of which go far above the 5th.
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Old 02-23-2021, 11:52 AM
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Nice arrangement Brent! Great playing/singing too
Thank you. :-)
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Old 02-23-2021, 12:45 PM
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I frequently play above the 7th fret. Which is why I'm disappointed in my Martin OMC-15ME; it sounds fabulous as a "strummer" near the nut, but go up high and it loses action and tone.
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Old 02-23-2021, 01:17 PM
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I took all my guitars out and looked at them from the first fret to the fifth fret and I didn't see no money anywhere. But I did find a dollar bill tip stashed away in one of my guitar cases from a busking event.
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Old 02-23-2021, 01:20 PM
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I love all twenty frets
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Old 02-23-2021, 01:27 PM
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I frequently play above the 7th fret. Which is why I'm disappointed in my Martin OMC-15ME; it sounds fabulous as a "strummer" near the nut, but go up high and it loses action and tone. It's on my "sell" list.
What does "it loses action" mean? It probably just needs a setup.
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I stay at the pointy end of the instrument as much as possible because electric guitars have good, sometimes even great tone on the upper frets. Acoustics don't.
This is exactly why I love the tone of an acoustic archtop so much. Yeah, I know, there is no low end bass, very thin, but once you begin playing above the seventh fret, this is where the clearity and vibrant tone of this body design really shines. Far more pleasant for jazz and blues runs on my L-7 than when I was playing flat tops like the Advanced Jumbo I used to own .
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What does "it loses action" mean? It probably just needs a setup.
Yes, probably. I'm going to set it up (or have it set up, more likely) before I put it on the block. That may change my mind, though.
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Old 02-23-2021, 02:30 PM
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Well, most of the time I will climb up the neck as a tab is written.

But, as a fingerstylist, I am trying to make my own arrangements
climbing the scales up the neck with the I dea of exploring the CAGED system.

I got acoustics with cutaways to do so.
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Old 02-23-2021, 02:37 PM
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What's next, a 12 key piano?
That was exactly what came to my mind as well.

That, and "autoharp".
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