Im looking for some techniques (other than just practice...practice...practice...) to improve my tone with my fingers. Such as certain types of scales or fretboard/finger exercises and different techniques to work on to improve my tone.
Tone is mainly in the picking hand, not the fretting hand. Focus your time there. Attack angle, attack strength, rest strokes vs. free strokes, type/thickness of pick, shape of finger nail, where on the string you pick, control over string muting/damping, etc.
Bryan
I disagree. It's the combination of the pick hand and fretting hand.
Tone is mainly in the picking hand, not the fretting hand. Focus your time there. Attack angle, attack strength, rest strokes vs. free strokes, type/thickness of pick, shape of finger nail, where on the string you pick, control over string muting/damping, etc.
Bryan
the fretting hand is frequencies, notes, chords, voicing, muting, bends, vibrato, and their character, hammer ons, sustain, staccatto,vibrato is changing the frequency, does not have anything to do with tone, though most of the tone is really in the amp![]()
the fretting hand is frequencies, notes, chords, voicing, muting, bends, vibrato, and their character, hammer ons, sustain, staccatto,vibrato is changing the frequency, does not have anything to do with tone, though most of the tone is really in the amp![]()
OK, care to elaborate? Perhaps some fretting hand exercises to work on to improve tone . . .
I was assuming that the original poster meant 'tone' as in 'timbre,' not as in 'pitch.' Frequencies, notes, chords, voicing, bends, vibrato all relate to pitch and not really to timbre. Hammer-ons, pull-offs, sustain, and staccato are all left-hand things that do relate to timbre. I maintain that timbre mainly lies in the picking hand (as I said in my original reply) and that that is where a lot of attention should be placed. Learning new scales, chord voicings, etc., is great, but it really isn't the original poster was asking about, at least as I understood it.
I play an awful lot of acoustic guitar, so I'm not that concerned with tone being in the amp. My palette of tones comes from my right hand.
Bryan
+ 1I play an awful lot of acoustic guitar, so I'm not that concerned with tone being in the amp. My palette of tones comes from my right hand.
Bryan
I was assuming that the original poster meant 'tone' as in 'timbre,' not as in 'pitch.' Frequencies, notes, chords, voicing, bends, vibrato all relate to pitch and not really to timbre. Hammer-ons, pull-offs, sustain, and staccato are all left-hand things that do relate to timbre. I maintain that timbre mainly lies in the picking hand (as I said in my original reply) and that that is where a lot of attention should be placed. Learning new scales, chord voicings, etc., is great, but it really isn't the original poster was asking about, at least as I understood it.
I play an awful lot of acoustic guitar, so I'm not that concerned with tone being in the amp. My palette of tones comes from my right hand.
Bryan