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I have the DVD as well. The notes are held for a long time because of the sustainer pickup... or lots of compression. But you will never get that same sound out of a fretted guitar. The long whiiiinging of his guitar when he slides down the fret board is due to the fact that it's a fretless... as mentioned. With fretted instrument you only hear the #, whole, and flat notes. With a fretless you hear the whole spectrum of notes even detuned notes... it's similar to playing slide guitar... except you get a different tone. You get a warmer tone from fretless guitars because the string is held against the wood... and the wood will disipate the vibrations of the string... where as when you play slide you have to use a glass, ceramic, steel, or otherwise slide which doesn't disipate vibration but sustains it... giving it a brighter, ringyer tone... There's the low down...