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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

791.0. "5 string bass tuning?" by GVA05B::BERGMANS () Mon Aug 22 1988 11:47

    How is a 5 string bass tuned.
    
    Are there different arrangments.
    
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791.1Bass tuningsWELMTS::GREENBwaiting for my manMon Aug 22 1988 13:268
    E-A-D-G-C I think.      Yes?
    
    I have encountered bass tunings of D-A-D-G and one in 5ths, like
    a cello, of C-G-D-A
    6 string bass is tuned like a guitar but an octave lower
    
    Bob da Bass        
    
791.2It DependsAQUA::ROSTNow Sally is a happy girlMon Aug 22 1988 13:4911
    
    In the 1960s, it was common to have the extra string be either a
    B or C above the G.
    
    Now it is more common to have the extra string be the B below the
    E.
    
    A lot of this has to do with the fact that modern bass amps can
    reproduce such low frequencies OK.
    
    
791.3BASS TUNINGMPGS::STJEANMon Aug 22 1988 14:0319
    I WOULD THINK?
    
    E-A-D-G-B ?
    
    JUST TO EXTEND YOUR SCALES 
     I'VE YET TO PLAY A 5 OR 6 STRING BASS BUT I WOULD THINK THAT'S WHAT I
    WOULD TUNE TO AND THEN POSSIBLY AFTER WORKING WITH IT THEN START
    CHANGING THE TUNNING AND KIND OF PLAY AROUND WITH IT.
    I HAVE JUST RECENTLY STARTED SEEING THESE AROUND BUT SOMEONE HAS TOLD
    ME THAT THEY USE BE QUITE POPULAR A FEW YEARS BACK.
    
    I DO AGREE WITH TUNNING A 6 STRING AN OCTAVE LOWER.
    I WOULD LIKE SOMEMORE INFO IF SOMEONE HAS MORE TO OFFER.
    IF YOU ARE ACTIVE WHEN PLAYING THE BASS THAN ITS KIND OF A GOOD
    ALTERNATIVE TO A 4 STRING.
    
    
    SEE YA
      MAD DOG   ( COUNTRY MUSIC LOVER )
791.4get that 18" speaker outMARKER::BUCKLEYIROC, do you?Mon Aug 22 1988 14:094
    
    I would think:
    
    B E A D G
791.55 string tuningSCOMAN::BOUCHARDMon Aug 22 1988 18:074
  I have two five string basses , one is tuned e a d g c, and the other
     b e a d g.  gotta run
    
                                                 dan . . .