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5 string basses - Rufus - Jul 28, 2004

Anyone have one?

How do you choose to tune it, BEADG???


Bass styles:
Do you like the modern thunk thunk, whack style, or a more melodious counter melody cum rythm singing bass?

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5 string basses - shuttertalk - Jul 28, 2004

hm... i'd like to know myself! never played a 5 string before...

i think i like both styles, depending on the song. some bass solos work well with the thunk thunk and there's lots of drums, but when it's quiet, the singing bass sounds great too. haha, i'm probably talking rubbish here...

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5 string basses - de_axeman - Jul 29, 2004

Played a 5-string once in BEADG. Took me a while to get the hang of it, heheh...

As to which style I like, it depends on what the song requires. I generally prefer the melodic stuff tho...

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5 string basses - shuttertalk - Jul 29, 2004

Rufus Wrote:How do you choose to tune it, BEADG???

What's the alternative?

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5 string basses - Rufus - Jul 30, 2004

Lots of alternative tunings ST.

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5 string basses - adam - Jul 30, 2004

My dad's friend decided one day that he wanted to play bass, so he went and bought a second hand black gibson les paul 5 string bass!
It was tuned BEADG.

It was nice... it said Gibson on it, it had 5 strings, it was a LesPaul bass! ahhh!
then after a few lessons, he gave up and sold it.

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5 string basses - Rufus - Jul 30, 2004

Aha.

I dont like Gibsons, nor Fenders. So there!

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5 string basses - adam - Jul 30, 2004

So there ~
hehe.

Which ones do you like?

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5 string basses - Rufus - Jul 31, 2004

Warwick, Shuker, Status.

Couldnt afford any of them though......................

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5 string basses - shuttertalk - Aug 1, 2004

Hehe how about Yamaha??

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5 string basses - Rufus - Aug 1, 2004

Well, I was talking of really expensive basses. If I come out of cloud cuckoo land and get real though, then I'm looking at the following:

Warwick Rockbass
Yamaha
Peavey
Ibanez
Aria.

That's probably it.

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