Hey Frankie, great job !! And yes it does sound nice... have you noticed any advantages with performing vibrato and bends ?
Hey Ben,
Since I spent so much time playing bass in the past vibrato is something that I have never really worked on (saying that, I am practicing your vibrato oddesy lesson 2 at the moment - muchos gracias
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I can't say that it has improved my vibrato - I can bend higher much more easily though.
To be honest, the result wasn't at all what I expected.
I guess I expected to be able to push the string right down to the fingerboard really easily. This isn't the case.
Instead when you fret it feels quite alien, like you have the option to push the string in further if you want to but they are still quite rigid bridging the frets.
Trying to play quick economy picking feels strange too, probably because I am not used to it.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it isn't any better or worse, I can play chords fine without going out of tune - it's just a different feel.
I would recommend having a go on one before comitting to buying one though, just because it is so different. I don't think many guitars have scalloped fretboards though, apart from the Yngwie and Ritchie Blackmore strats and I believe the Ibanez Jem has a partial scallop too.
Well worth a go. Maybe I'll try and do some comparisons between the Washburn and my Strat at some point when I get better at this whole vibrato thing