fret
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- noun
- /frɛt/
- Specialized
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traste
- Place your finger just above the fret to play a higher note on the guitar.
- strings and frets
- frets of the guitar
So I'm actually pressing down behind the fret to get that note.
- So I'm actually pressing down behind the fret to get that note.
- And then you shrum where's the where's this one on my pinkies on the third fret bottom E string.
Examples
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So I'm holding on the third fret of the bottom string.
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You hold this "E" string down here at the fifth fret.
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Put, put your finger on the second fret there, and this one on the third, then this one here.
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Hold the "E" string down on the fifth fret right there at the top.
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Each numeral represents the fret where the note is played.
Academic text (1997) -
The strings and fingerings are exactly the same; the difference is the starting fret.
Academic text (2010) -
Others may not be able to comfortably reach the frets farthest from the guitar's body, near the head.
Academic text (2010) -
Tablature directly illustrates which combination of frets and strings to play.
Academic text (2010) -
She's picking away on a pale green Telecaster, eyes focused on the frets.
Fiction book (1994) -
Guitarists descend the fretboard to raise the pitch; a guitarist told to move two frets higher might play a lower tone.
Academic text (2010)
Idioms
Compounds
A repeating design of vertical and horizontal lines that people use to decorate buildings and objects
Surface Forms
Etymology
A fret on a guitar or mandolin is a small metal strip and the name comes from the same idea of a 'narrow band', so each fret is like a little band that helps make different notes.