Guitar playing: on the frets themselves

[DavidC]

Hi there.


I fiddle with a guitar every now and then. I have an accoustic with tough strings that are really high up, so you have to press on them pretty hard to make noise.

When you miss a fret slightly, and end up pressing a little too close or too far behind a fret, it makes a different noise, which is basically the sound of the string vibrating on the fret itself (the metal piece) instead of off of it (i.e. like it should sound).

This is a bit of a dull sound.

However, it's not so bad once you get used to it. It's not the beautiful "clean" sound of a guitar, but it sounds okay.

So I'm curious, has anyone ever purposely played in this manner: essentially using distortion on an accoustic guitar, in a recorded song somewhere?

--Dave.

P.S. I don't entirely know what the hell I'm talking about, so I hope you guys do. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]