The Fender Standard Jazz Bass Fretless (Upgrade) electric bass guitar sound SINGS to you, the lows are deep and organic, and the upper range will touch your soul. All you players who play fretted basses; if you want to improve your skills, play a fretless, you will be surprised to find out how much more there is to learn about your instrument! On its early ’60s introduction, the Fender Jazz Bass guitar immediately endeared itself to the music world, quickly becoming another Fender design classic and an indispensable element in the arsenal of many a bassist worldwide. The fretless version of the instrument also proved very popular and quickly found its own niche. The fretless version of the lean-and-mean Standard Jazz Bass incorporates many of the original model’s classic Fender ???????firsts, such as the offset waist and ultra-slim fast-action neck. It’s updated here with two bi-pole pickups, American Jazz Bass knobs and side dot position markers are centered between fretlines, giving you the best of both worlds and eras???????some vintage vibe and appointments with some modern refinements. Fretless basses have a distinct sound: the absence of frets means that the string must be pressed down directly onto the wood of the fingerboard and can buzz against it as with the double bass, sometimes described as a “mwaah” sound by bassists. The fretless bass allows players to use the expressive devices of glissando, vibrato and microtonal intonations such as quarter tones and just intonation. Some bassists use both fretted and fretless basses in performances, according to the type of material they are performing. In ???????How The Fender Bass Changed The World, Jim Roberts states that Bill Wyman made the first known fretless electric bass guitar in 1961 by converting an inexpensive Japanese fretted bass. This fretless bass can be heard on The Rolling Stones songs such as “Paint it Black”. Fender introduced a fretless version of the Precision Bass in 1970. Fusion-jazz virtuoso Jaco Pastorius created his own fretless bass by pulling the frets out of a sunburst Fender Jazz Bass, filling up the holes with wood putty and coating the fretboard with epoxy resin. Fretless basses are widely used in jazz and jazz fusion music. Nonetheless, many bassists from other genres use fretless basses. This Electron Blue finish Fretless Fender Standard Jazz Bass is pure tonal magic; from soaring fretless highs to growling lows, just like an upright! Makes A Great, Thick Fretless Sound, With Plenty Of “mwah”! Features: Model Name: Standard Jazz Bass Fretless (Upgrade) Series Standard Series Body Alder (Polyester Finish) Maple Neck, Modern ???????C Shape (Satin Polyurethane Finish) Rosewood Fingerboard 9.5 Radius (241mm) Fretless, 20 Inlaid White Fretline Markers Pickups 2 Upgraded Standard Jazz Bass Single-Coil Pickups (Mid & Bridge) Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup) Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup) Master Tone Bridge: Standard Vintage Style Standard Mach

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