Tuning a bass

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We have managed to collectively get to 5 pages and stay pretty much on topic.

Aren't we good? :D
 
Rokket said:
I haven't really been in there in days! I forgot how much there was to do outside.... ;)
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Believe it or not they're still arguing about Bush, Wal-Mart, Native Americans, Clear Channel, and how big of a fascist Jimistone is, on nearly every thread! Cracks me up in there! :D :D

Back to the fretless intonation thing, you really don't need to intonate, you adjust finger position accordingly.
 
ez_willis said:
Believe it or not they're still arguing about Bush, Wal-Mart, Native Americans, Clear Channel, and how big of a fascist Jimistone is, on nearly every thread! Cracks me up in there! :D :D
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So in other words, I haven't missed a thing...
 
Meanwhile, we seem to be rolling on to the next page...
 
ez_willis said:
I think they've just about got there differences worked out! :D :D :D
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That won't last long... we need to get back on topic... who's got something bass related???
 
Rokket said:
That won't last long... we need to get back on topic... who's got something bass related???
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I was kidding!

Anyone get into that Presidents of the United States of America band. They had catchy pop tunes, great lyrics, cool melodies. They created and played these -

The basitar was first created by lead singer Chris Ballew and acts as a bass guitar. It consists of a normal (six string) guitar body fitted with two bass guitar strings on the two middle tuning pegs, tuned to C sharp and G Sharp (lowest to highest).
The guitbass acts as an electric guitar and was created by band member Dave Dederer to compliment Ballew's basitar. It consists of a normal six string guitar with only three strings, tuned to C sharp, G sharp and C sharp (lowest to highest). The second C sharp is an octave higher.
 
ez_willis said:
I was kidding!

Anyone get into that Presidents of the United States of America band. They had catchy pop tunes, great lyrics, cool melodies. They created and played these -

The basitar was first created by lead singer Chris Ballew and acts as a bass guitar. It consists of a normal (six string) guitar body fitted with two bass guitar strings on the two middle tuning pegs, tuned to C sharp and G Sharp (lowest to highest).
The guitbass acts as an electric guitar and was created by band member Dave Dederer to compliment Ballew's basitar. It consists of a normal six string guitar with only three strings, tuned to C sharp, G sharp and C sharp (lowest to highest). The second C sharp is an octave higher.
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Kidding... :o

That's some creative stuff.
I read somewhere that on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", he actually removed the big strings off his 12-string guitar and played the opening with just the octave strings. No wonder I could never cop that tone...
 
bass related

Tomorrow I'll investigate this dial tone thing. We need to know if, in fact, you can whip out your cell phone on stage, punch a button, and tune your bass to it. Or, if you can't. It'll be hard to go to sleep tonight, speculating....

Has anybody played one of the Fender '51 Precision reissues? Now that looks like my kinda bass. If only they could dirty up the fingerboard and wear the finish the way REAL '51's look, I'd buy one in a minute. Until then, I have to play this thing:
 

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lpdeluxe said:
Tomorrow I'll investigate this dial tone thing. We need to know if, in fact, you can whip out your cell phone on stage, punch a button, and tune your bass to it. Or, if you can't. It'll be hard to go to sleep tonight, speculating....

Has anybody played one of the Fender '51 Precision reissues? Now that looks like my kinda bass. If only they could dirty up the fingerboard and wear the finish the way REAL '51's look, I'd buy one in a minute. Until then, I have to play this thing:
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The oldest P Bass I ever had my hands on was my dad's '75. I like the look of the reissue, but they don't make them lefty (my dad's wasnt either, I had to learn to play it upside down) I don't think...
 
crazydoc said:
That's called Nashville tuning.

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=142188

I have a guitar I keep strung that way - I love the sound.
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That's Nashville tuning? When I was big into Satriani, I was reading in Guitar For The Practicing Musician that he used Nashville tuning on the end of "Always With You, Always With Me". I've always wondered what that was (but not enough to keep me awake at night), and now I know...
 
Nashville tuning

Another example is the rhythm guitar part on the Stone's Wild Horses: standard tuned acoustic panned to one side, Nashville tuned panned to the other, played in unison.
 
lpdeluxe said:
Another example is the rhythm guitar part on the Stone's Wild Horses: standard tuned acoustic panned to one side, Nashville tuned panned to the other, played in unison.
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Yeah, that sounded friggin' awesome. I am going to do some research about it, because I would like to see what I can do with it. I have a song in the works that would benefit from that sound...
 
Stu Hamm

While he was teaching at Berkeley, Stu HAmm used to bitch about guitar players who came to his clinic just to learn how to play this:


LINUS AND LUCY

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Rokket said:
The oldest P Bass I ever had my hands on was my dad's '75.
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The oldest bass I've ever owned was a '59 P bass. It was pretty sweet. Had a lot of character. But it wasn't really the nicest playing bass I own. And it was much too collectible to take out and actually play anywhere. And I'm a player, not a collector, anyway, so I sold it to a collector.

I still have my '66 Jazz. I'll never get rid of that one. I've had it for so long that it's more like an old friend than an instrument that I own. I eventually got nervous about taking that one out of the house, too, so I bought one of those new "60's Jazz Bass" models. It pretty much nails the feel and tone of my real 60s Jazz. And I wouldn't be emotionally devastated if it got stolen or broken. I also did a series/parallel mod to it so that it is more versatile in tone.

Brad
 
Bassman Brad said:
The oldest bass I've ever owned was a '59 P bass. It was pretty sweet. Had a lot of character. But it wasn't really the nicest playing bass I own. And it was much too collectible to take out and actually play anywhere. And I'm a player, not a collector, anyway, so I sold it to a collector.

I still have my '66 Jazz. I'll never get rid of that one. I've had it for so long that it's more like an old friend than an instrument that I own. I eventually got nervous about taking that one out of the house, too, so I bought one of those new "60's Jazz Bass" models. It pretty much nails the feel and tone of my real 60s Jazz. And I wouldn't be emotionally devastated if it got stolen or broken. I also did a series/parallel mod to it so that it is more versatile in tone.

Brad
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Too cool. To have a bass as old as I am would be sweet. But alas, I am too poor right now to afford it...
 
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