🎸Derek Jones Bass Guitar Lesson – Fretless Phrasing Tips for Beautiful Basslines Elixir Strings Perhaps one of the most expressive stringed instruments, the fretless bass allows endless options for phrasing and dynamics. In this short bass guitar video lesson, Elixir Strings artist Derek Jones takes us through some creative phrasing ideas on fretless bass - the kind of thing that can only be created on the instrument. He demonstrates some fluid, vocal-style phrasing ideas using hammer-ons, pull