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03-16-2013, 02:39 PM
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Not sure if this is the right place, please move it if it isn't.
Anyway, I recently got a new 5'er and learnt a couple of songs on it to help me get used to the spacing and integrate the low B into my playing, but now I find myself at lack of five string songs. Suggest me anything and I'll learn it. |
03-16-2013, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Largo FL | | | If you like rock, papa roach from the infest album used all 5 string stuff, not only that but the songs make for excellent exercises to get you use to it. It's what I learned on(I had the official tab book). These days I can't stand papa roach but it's still great to learn and exercise your fingers on. |
03-16-2013, 02:53 PM
| | | | Not a big Papa Roach fan, but I'll try it out. |
03-16-2013, 03:04 PM
|  | (aka Greg Harman, the curmudgeon with a conundrum) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | "Stay - I miss you" by Lisa Loeb has a low F on the chorus that is much easier to play at the 6th fret position on the B than it is 1st fret on the E because most of the song is played between the 3rd and 8th fret positions - B, E, A and D strings with one note each on the B and D strings.
Transitional notes back to the G after the first two lines of the verse of "Country Comfort" (Elton John) performed by Keith Urban sound much better to my ear played on the B.
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03-16-2013, 03:13 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Akron, OH | | | May not be your cup of tea, but "Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis" by Trivium uses the whole 5 string bass range. It even has two bass solos in it. My favorite song to play right now.
Also, 311 songs are always fun to play.
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03-16-2013, 03:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Pick a country tune in G, A..12 bar blues in B, C, D and E. |
03-16-2013, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Try transposing some songs you already know to a lower key to get used to the B string. |
03-16-2013, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Largo FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MoscowRadio  Not a big Papa Roach fan, but I'll try it out. | I hear ya and I agree, but it's great use of a 5 string. Other than that +1 to what diabolic said.
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03-16-2013, 03:56 PM
| | | | Thanks for the advice. |
03-16-2013, 04:02 PM
| | | | I use mine for Time Warp, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Gimme Three Steps. |
03-16-2013, 04:08 PM
| | | | There are a few Audioslave songs where Tim C. is tuned BEAD. You could use your 5 on those...that is if you are into Audioslave. Les Claypool (Primus) does quite a bit on 5 and 6 string basses as well. |
03-16-2013, 04:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Halifax | | | Joe Jackson's Big World album. Great 3-piece backing him up with lots of the B-string on the 5.
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