9th or 10th fret marker?

Josh Hegg

Where do you prefer your fret marker?

MichaelHorowitz

I like the 10th Fret markers...mostly because the the dot falls on the note D on the bass string. Just seems to make a little more sense to me. It used to drive me crazy until I actually owned a guitar with the 10th Fret marker. Now I'm totally into it...and switching back to guitars with a 9th Fret marker doesn't seem to bother me.

SONIC

Michael Horowitz wrote:

I like the 10th Fret markers...mostly because the the dot falls on the note C on the bass string.

You mean on the note D on the bass string, I presume.

MichaelHorowitz

Yes...D

Stringswinger

I prefer the 9th. After 38 years of playing, I'm used to it.

Bob Holo

9th.... I went back and forth on this and finally got tired of playing wrong chords up on the neck when switching back and forth ... so I went with 9th because all my other guitars have 9th

vince

10th. It took me about a day to get used to it, and a now I have a hard time playing other guitars. it also serves as a good excuse for people to not play their usually crappy sounding guitars (especially for gypsy jazz)

and why would there be a dot on C# for the bass? I think D is more common - I love the dm6 and dm7 voicings that high for stuff.

V

max

10th, for gypsyjazz.

I´ve started to separate "gypsyguitar" from "ordinary" guitar.
To me gypsy guitar is like another instrument in a sense, and having
a dot on a different fret acctually helps me to separate "gypsyguitar"
from "ordinaryguitar".
Everything is different for me with a djangoguitar; heavier pick, grip of the pick, voicings, aesthetics of soloing, the rhytm, strings etc.. it´s like learning a difficult new and wery powerful languish in a way.

When back on electric with high gain marshallstack everything is about normal again, and my mind wants the dot on the 9th fret,
for djangomusic the 10th fret is "norm" for me now and I can´t play djangotunes with the dot one fret lower.
Probably cause I learn the songs like a parrot and don´t know to much
about chords and stuff..

Also, I don´t know why there are dots ON the fingerboard? anybody needs them? as long as they are on the side of the neck I´m plenty fine..

Bill McNeill

I bought my first Gitane earlier this year. It really threw me at first, but after I few months of playing I'm getting used to it. It helps that I rarely switch back to my other guitars these days, so I don't have to be dot-bilingual. In a way I think the confusion can be helpful though, because it encourages you not to rely on looking at the neck.