fretboard
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Originating in southern Mexico, this upright bass is all about the slap — a raw, percussive sound created when the string hits the fretboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
“I’m making it so much harder,” she said, removing two rings and stretching her powerful fingers across the fretboard.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
She tends to play with her guitar flat on her lap, both hands tapping and smearing notes on the fretboard, or plucking them in unexpected places.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021
The dimly lit Irish pub in Pioneer Square was aglow with modest “stage” lights, hints of bar neon and Schuster’s warm leads that vacillated between smooth, happy-dream-state lullabies and spicy fretboard calisthenics.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2021
One exception comes on Eruption, from Van Halen's debut album, which is simply 102 seconds of molten-hot finger work, as Eddie dive-bombs over the fretboard, incorporating both classical scales and his tapping technique.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2020
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