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What's the highest note that you play regularly?


Grant Harding

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high e string on 21th fret would be a C right? if i bend it even higher :)

 

kiddin, my practice session involves some G minor pentatonic patterns excerises played in all position, while playing the first and second position in the upper section again, so my highest practicestuff goes up to 20th fret....

 

when playing with band everything is concentrated way below

 

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Regularly? I was trained at an early age of seeing every note on the freeboard as having equal weight. Much of it came from formal lessons playing violin which I carried over to the guitar. The few lessons I got playing guitar consisted of ragtime music which used chords spanned the entire neck too.

 

The only limitations depend on the key being played, the type of music, and guitar being used. I have no problem using entire fret board for leads (and beyond playing slide)

 

Above the 15th fret it obviously becomes too tight for fingering full barre chords but partial three note chords are possible all the way up if you have enough clearance.

 

One some instruments with a single cutaway I have to completely remove the thumb from in back of the guitar to get to the upper frets as needed for a given song. Takes some practice playing that way. You simply need to envision what it would take to play if you ever lost your thumb.

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First post here, so I'll try to be conservative, and it is too bad that Roy Buchanan is not around to answer, but he is an influence, and on his old tele he would pick notes down on top of the bridge pickup. That's probably close to the limit of the human ear.

 

Good to find you, I've only spent time in linux forums and I really miss real people; musicians.

 

Here is Nancy at work https://youtu.be/DDOIL5OqvYs?t=4m52s

 

[video=youtube;DDOIL5OqvYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOIL5OqvYs&feature=youtu.be&t=4m52s

 

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First post here, so I'll try to be conservative, and it is too bad that Roy Buchanan is not around to answer, but he is an influence, and on his old tele he would pick notes down on top of the bridge pickup. That's probably close to the limit of the human ear.

 

Good to find you, I've only spent time in linux forums and I really miss real people; musicians.

 

Here is Nancy at work https://youtu.be/DDOIL5OqvYs?t=4m52s

 

[video=youtube;DDOIL5OqvYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOIL5OqvYs&feature=youtu.be&t=4m52s

 

Roy was such a monster. Gotta love watching his facial expressions as he's playing Nancy with just one hand... :)

 

Oh, and welcome to Harmony Central - if you're looking to hang out and chat with other musicians, you've definitely come to the right place! :cool2::wave:

 

 

 

 

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No one in their right mind plays anything higher than the D note on 2nd string 3rd fret. Not even playing it anywhere else higher up on a lower string.

 

If Gawd had meant guitar players to use high notes, she wouldn't have placed Carlos Santana at Woodstock in front of a film camera to remind one of the perils of exposing sleepy muddy people to high notes... and.... she wouldn't have allowed Cinnamon Girl to exist.

 

The D note. Learn it. Know it. Play it. Live it.

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I have a Les Paul Peewee (my avatar) that has more range than an electric guitar (Eb on the low string) and goes higher than my electric mandolin (B).

 

It's tuned in 5ths, not 4ths, which is what gives it such a broad range.

 

And I do hit that excruciatingly high B note from time to time.

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