Fretless guitars ain't so easy either. A buddy of mine who performs recently got a hold of one. He loves it, now he's relearning his entire catalog playing fretless for a whole different sound.
my thing with fretless guitars is that i just dont usually enjoy most of the styles of playing they are used for, nor their sound. But thats just an opinion anyway.
Pretty often i hear soemthing played on a fretless bass thats normally played on a fretless, and i have an "Oh crap, that sounds so much smoother and creamier and trippier"
When i hear fretless electric guitars, and NO DISRESPECT AT ALL to the players of such instruments, NOR their obviously fantastic talent, but what i hear reminds me of a winding up electric motor with most fretless electric guitar players, and i dont usually consider it to be a very pleasant sound, a cool sound yea, but not ones i would sit and listen to out of taste alone, and most of the time i find myself wishing whatever the piece was, was just being played on a fretted guitar instead. Its def fun to watch the fretless guys jam out though.
Its just a matter of taste and nothing more, but never personally have i heard a fretless electric guitar that was actually using a guitar tone, and thought "Woah, that sounds so good" and it still hasnt happened. Just more winding and ringing out electric motor sounds lol. To my ears anyway. it's like everything is running through a digitech whammy pedal, all the time.
And thats honestly how most guitar players i know personally feel when it comes to a fretless guitar. They just dont sound very good.
very impressive though, yes.
Although there is this guy..... i am a huge fan of this guy's fretless guitar playing. But it doesnt sound like a fretless guitar it sounds like a womans voice. so.... lol
This is from the album "You are Literally a Metaphor". great album.
Sorry im a super opinionated asshole when it comes to music and the arts, and performance. always have been always will be
