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05-12-2009, 07:42 PM
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its the same as a guitar (eadg) is it an octave lower tho? |
05-12-2009, 07:50 PM
|  | I'll take you into the water. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Brisbane QLD Australia | | | yes. accept on a 6 string bass you have BEADGC instead of eadgbe (still an octave lower) |
05-12-2009, 07:51 PM
| | | | ok i knew that i just didnt know if it was in the same octave or not |
05-12-2009, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kennett Square, PA | | | if it was the same octave, what would be the point to have a bass?... |
05-12-2009, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Jambi | | | Unless you have a piccolo bass, which is tuned an octave up, like a guitar (why Stanley Clarke, why [or technically Ron Carter]?).
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05-13-2009, 12:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | Pretty sure I'm wrong here. But the bass is a transposing instrument. Doesn't that make it two octaves lower?
If the bass was one octave lower, then playing the 2nd octave (12th fret on E string, 7th fret on A string, or 2nd fret on D string) would give you the same octave as the guitar. I'm pretty sure [though I could be wrong] that its still an octave lower at those points.
I believe the C string on a 6 string bass gets into the guitar octave at the E (4th fret) or any of the third octaves past the 12th fret on the A, D, and G string.
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05-13-2009, 01:18 AM
| | I'll take you into the water. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Brisbane QLD Australia | | | The bass is one octave down, 12 fret on e is guitar open e. |
05-13-2009, 11:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tom once dead The bass is one octave down, 12 fret on e is guitar open e. | Then bass isn't a transposing instrument?  |
05-13-2009, 11:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Palo Alto, CA | | | The bass is a transposing instrument, correct, sounding one octave lower than written. The guitar is *also* a transposing instrument, sounding one octave lower than written.
The bass is tuned an octave lower than the four low strings on a guitar.
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05-14-2009, 04:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by portmanteau The bass is a transposing instrument, correct, sounding one octave lower than written. The guitar is *also* a transposing instrument, sounding one octave lower than written.
The bass is tuned an octave lower than the four low strings on a guitar. | Ahhh check! Thanks man. Didnt know guitar was the same kinda dealio | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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