Tuning a bass

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this one is cool... I wish I had this model (there's a pun in there, can you feel it? :D )
 
And....... the best for last!

It's not a bass, but it sure looks cool!
 
That's it. If you can find some more strange things like these, please post them!!!!
 
Rokket said:
moving right along... how do you tune this?
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With a knife and fork, or in some circumstances you are even allowed just to use your fingers.

Eddie

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timmerman said:
With a knife and fork, or in some circumstances you are even allowed just to use your fingers.

Eddie

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LMAO!!! I still have to figure out how to record some of them. My mic selection is pretty bleak right now, since I am just getting started. I only have my bass and guitars with me, and a pretty decent Yamaha keyboard...
 
Rokket said:
LMAO!!! I still have to figure out how to record some of them. My mic selection is pretty bleak right now, since I am just getting started. I only have my bass and guitars with me, and a pretty decent Yamaha keyboard...
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Not sure what LMAO!!! stands for, but I am sure that I will learn that soon :D as far as the other comment.......... that was nothing against you and all your instruments, not just a general one which goes for me as well. Probably in the same boat as you with that one ;)

But heh we are off topic, so back to topic now......................ah well, I can think of another few things but it may not be related to tuning, but it is about bass, and one of them you may all like: Playing with TWO capoos on a bass!!!

Have I gone mad? Why would you like that anyway?

Okay let me explain myself a bit further and cut all the nonsense as this really is a good sonic trick:

You could, for example, capoo the G and D string at the 8th fret, so you get the the Bflat and the Eflat, the Bflat will work as your Root note, while the Eflat functions as a sus4. You could play them both, but this is up to what you would like to do.

Okay so far? Now the second capoo goes on the first fret, but you will only hear the E and A string since the D and G are already capood on the 8th fret. Now by doing this you have two Bflat's and the fifth below [ the F on the e-string]. How I use this is I improvise lines on the E and A string while I keep the D and G string as a drone. True the D and G will feel a bit tight as you have capoed them high up the fretboard, but it really gives a good sound.

Recording ideas and:..................So how do I use it? WEll as you can all imagine, this is not a scenario for rhythm playing eh? No I would use it as getting a melody, and a guitar would do the rhythmic back-up for the song [or a keyboard or whatever you can think of]

Some practical tips:

The neck I use is a Fender Jazz bass type, so they are relatively slim, the capoos I use are Shupp, one is the C1, which works well on the bass on the lower frets, one is the C2 which works over the whole neck.

Can you damage your cappoos by doing this? No not really, just adjust the pressure [if you use a Shupp ] and you will be fine.

On thing you may find is that using fingervibrato may cause too much stringmovement so the higher capoo may come of the fretboard, but I feel this is a minor issue.

Okay see if you like this sound, I really do enjoy it, and eh.................yes as you may have guessed it also works for that newly pattented Bass with the six strings.

Sorry for the long text, if I could show it to you you would all get it straight away, as it is, I feel I needed far too much text, and eh................you may even not be all that interested eh? :eek:

Eddie

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Rokket said:
OK, my question:

Upright bass, tuned the same as an electric 4 string? :confused:
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Bassman Brad said:
Yep, exactly. It's even tuned in the same octave, although it sounds lower due to the extra size of the sound chamber.

Brad
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The violin, and other members of the viol family (save for the viola, which is in it's own little word, tuned in the alto range, and notated on the alto cleff), were around quite a bit longer than guitar/guitar-bass, so there's no real coincidence when it comes to tunings being the same or closely similar. That's why I figure I could probably fake my way around a violin, fairly descently...so long as I'm playing it pizzacato. I did try bowing a violin, once, at a store in downtown Indy. The store owner just smiled, and said "that part takes the most practice." With that, I can just imagine how my cats would react, if I ever did buy a violin, and started practicing playing it with the bow. :P

Matt
 
Rokket said:
They only get weirder.... Gene Simmons, yeahhhhh
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I guess that one was inevitable...seeing as how guitars are commonly refered to as "axes." :)

Matt
 
I can just imagine how my cats would react

Especially when it's strung with catgut.
 
Does anybody here use foam to mute their strings a bit? You know, like the really old P's that were built with foam just above the bridge. I wedge a bit of foam underneath my strings near the bridge and get a great sound, but my intonation is affected. I remember a post talking about this a while back but not with regard to intonation or y'alls personal experiences with it in practice.

BassmanBrad, I dig your story of learned "perfect pitch". I too believe that it is something you are not born with, but is something that can be learned. I started on saxophone, got serious, and used to practice long tones religiously. I would envision being the note and memorize my entire body's senses when playing these tones. I would get cut off from practicing around 10:30pm, so I would then have to practice in my head if I wished to continue which I often did. I would practice in my head without my saxophone through various moments of the day, walking, and traveling wherever I had to. I heard the notes internally and would finger my air saxophone accordingly. Consequently, I have "perfect pitch" - HOWEVER, I relate all tones to the Bb tenor saxophone and then transpose it down a ninth to talk to concert pitch instrument players and speak the common language.
 
tuned in the usual way

What's the usual way to tune a weedeater?
 
Wearing goggles and the power disconnected.....

LOL. I deserved that.
 
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