Trying to up my post-count--New 6-string bass guitar.

[scooper77515]

Anybody on here play one of these?

I have played a 4 string since mid-high school, and 6 string regular guitar, electric and accoustic, but after years of wanting a 6-string bass, I got this "entry level" Ibanez.

Anyone want to tell me how to use it?

It is like learning a whole new instrument.

 

[kustomkarl]

I play 6 string lead guitar, but have no clue on the 6 string bass. I assume it has the same 6 basic strings.

Karl

 

[Sikiguya]

I play musical instrument like old people kiss....sloppy and all over. :rofl:

 

[seadoosnipe]

4 string?

Isn't a 4 string guitar considered a ukulele?

 

[scooper77515]

Yup, but I play the really big electric ukulele!:rofl:

The 6-string bass is actually strung up like a regular 4-string, with the E on top. But then add another lower string above it and a higher string below it. And currently, mine is tuned 5-frets down per string all the way down, but not sure if it needs to be 4 frets on that 5th string like a guitar. I doubt it, as it would play a chord, but it would be 5 notes off the guitar I am playing with... My low string is a B, not an E like the guitar player's top string, so it would be all out of whack.

Like I said, it is like learning a whole nother instrument.

 

[chucked]

I have a couple 5 string basses. I used to play in bands. I looked at 6 strings but they seems to me for jazz type music. I never needed to play notes that high. I remember I only used the 5th string in 2 songs for one note in the last band i was in.

 

[scooper77515]

i have some primus stuff printed out that I am trying my hand at. He does a lot of stuff up high.

check this video out. That is him right at the beginning and singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWDgLIfVKao