Re: Half Fretless_how difficult.?
Stickrad wrote:
about the degree of difficulty that a half fretless places on your technique
I've been playing a lot of fretless guitar and love that sound! For intonation you have to rely on hearing more than on visual neck positioning. A good thing with fretless is that in case one string is temporarily a bit sharp or low you can compensate by just rolling your finger tip a millimeter or two (until the show allows for reaching a tuning head to fix it). That kind of instant fix is almost impossible with a fretted instrument; if it is out of tune it mostly sounds out of tune.
Tapping on fretless is hard because you are never at the correct pitch at the very first attack, every note needs a short initial "intonation face-lift", so you really have to be careful when tapping fast melodies where the speed forces you to rely more on neck position than on hearing. A simple solutioin is to apply vibrato right from the start, that worked out very well for Mick Karn.