ok, getting the hang of this epi, it seems i have to dig in more to get the notes, more than the fender ps-72 i've been learning on. last nite i wanted to describe it like the ps-72 can read my mind about note while i have to tell the sorrento. but after a few hours playing this mronging, it seems just a stronger fretting and picking/strumming make a world of difference. being so new to guitar playing, i am not sure if this is normal, also, i think this git is strung with .10s while i've spent 100% of my learning time on .09s.......these are also the stock strings.
the crazy part about this guitar is the sound it makes, i can set it up clean and just move closer to the amp or turn into or away from it to get really cool distortions. and acoustically loud, it's awesome hearing the acoustic of the full hollow. really neat.
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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
One thing that comes to mind is you may have noticed the frets are pretty close together at that point on the fret board, so the "space" between notes is "smaller". This means that slight differences in finger pressure and the like are going to be much more noticeable than they would be on the lower frets where you have more room to play around. It is possible that a heavier guage string could minimize this issue, beyond that I think you just basically have to intonate at the 12th and above that you get what you get. Maybe if you consistently play in the higher registers on the fretboard find a way to optimize closer to where you play, but the 12th is pretty much the "middle" anyway so not sure how you would do that.
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it;s funny you mention this, i just learned this.
i was struggling getting some notes correct in the upper frets, i figured out i was bending them ever so slightly which wasthrowing off the pitch, as soon as i corrected my technique and fretted the string straight down, i hit the notes- bam!
