What are the advantages of a fretless Ubass?
I would guess that one big advantage is sliding between notes but I don’t find the frets on a fretted Ubass interfere with sliding.
There are fretless basses with marked frets and without. Obviously for a beginner having marked frets on a fretless would be an advantage. One would have to learn where to place one’s fingers with regard to these painted on frets.
Is the advantage that you can use your ears to be slightly off true pitch and therefore get a kind of sliding or bending effect?
And if there are strong advantages where can one begin with a relatively inexpensive fretless and where does one move up from there? Is scale length an influential factor?
I would guess that one big advantage is sliding between notes but I don’t find the frets on a fretted Ubass interfere with sliding.
There are fretless basses with marked frets and without. Obviously for a beginner having marked frets on a fretless would be an advantage. One would have to learn where to place one’s fingers with regard to these painted on frets.
Is the advantage that you can use your ears to be slightly off true pitch and therefore get a kind of sliding or bending effect?
And if there are strong advantages where can one begin with a relatively inexpensive fretless and where does one move up from there? Is scale length an influential factor?