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mc9mm
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mc9mm
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 08/16/01
Posts: 532
10/31/2002 5:09 pm
Just as bardsley and trendkillah are saying,
you dont have to be as accurate or press as hard
as you have to on normal frets to make it sound good.
Thats why on some guitars (often metalguitars) the
last 4 frets or something are scalloped.
If you've tried to play a blazing metalsolo in that
region, you know that the frets are incredibly small and it
can be tricky to hit them, and thats where our scalloped
comes in. Quite simply to make it easier to play high notes.
Since Yngwie is a bit chubby, his fingers are chubby too,
so its easier for him to play with scalloped frets.