to fret

Examples

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• For a faster tune, I focus on relaxing the fretting fingers, right-hand rhythm, double stops, coordinating right and left hand movement, hammer-ons, slides, and the list goes on.

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• One of these systems, called tablature (TAB), displays the guitar strings with horizontal lines; numbers on these lines tell the guitarist which frets to "stop."

  Academic text (1996)

• Numbers indicating which finger on the left hand was to be used to fret the strings appeared next to the letters.

  Academic text (2011)

• There's a line for each string with numbers on the lines that indicate which fret.

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• Instead of noteheads, numbers show which frets to press.

  Academic text (2010)

• The extent of tablature's pitch precision, then, is limited to telling the performer which frets on which strings to stop.

  Academic text (2011)

• Similarly, young string players learn that fretting or pressing a string in the middle, thus reducing its length by half, increases the pitch by an octave.

  Academic text (2011)

• The guitarist showed me how to fret the strings properly to create a smooth sound.

• To play the song accurately, you need to fret the correct notes on the guitar.

Idioms

F

to fret the gizzard

• Informal

9.9

To worry too much about things you cannot control

Compounds

G

Greek fret

8.4

A repeating design of vertical and horizontal lines that people use to decorate buildings and objects

Surface Forms

Etymology