Category: Articles
The Role of Fretless Guitar in Ambient Music
Fretless Guitar has become an excellent tool for use in ambient music with its capability to use microtones, long slides and modulated drones. With the advent of guitar synthesisers, MIDI control and ... Read More
Classical Music and the Fretless Guitar
The Fretless Guitar seems to have found its way into many genres; Heavy Metal, Jazz, Turkish, Indian and Arabic music. Not to mention Atonal, Free Improvisation and Ambient, but what about Classical M... Read More
Partially Fretless Guitars
If you thought Fretless Guitars were rare, there is a rarer beast, the Partially Fretless Guitar, which means it has some frets and some fretless sections. These do vary, so let’s take a look at... Read More
The Evolution of Perdesiz Gitar (Fretless Guitar) in Turkish Music
Perdesiz Gitar In Turkey the Fretless Guitar is called “Perdesiz Gitar” Turkish music is traditionally beyond the scope of instruments with equal temperament tuning, the twelve notes to the octave... Read More
The Influence of Fretless Guitar in Heavy Metal Music
Fretless guitar is very well suited to Heavy Metal music as there are many techniques and doom laden sounds that can be made on the fretless that just cannot be done on a standard guitar. Two surprisi... Read More
Origins of the Fretless Guitar in the Twentieth Century
Yamaha SA-1500 Fretless Guitar (1979) Many fretless instruments have existed throughout history and it could be argued some of these are the precursor of the fretless guitar. The fretless guitar is, h... Read More