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04-13-2011, 05:17 PM
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So I got a 5 string bass for last Christmas. Apparently my parents ordered a 4 string, but we got a 5 string. Lol.
Anyways, I want to be able to use that string. So any rock bassists that use 5 string basses? |
04-13-2011, 05:18 PM
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04-13-2011, 05:25 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | | 5's are so out. 6's are the big thing this year.
Korn and POD come to mind, but they're everywhere. What kind of music do you listen to?
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04-13-2011, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by FunkMetalBass 5's are so out. 6's are the big thing this year.
Korn and POD come to mind, but they're everywhere. What kind of music do you listen to? | What's POD? Sorry, this is like my first music forum. |
04-13-2011, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sartell, MN | | | Trapt, Breaking Benjamin. There are more, just can't think of them off the top of my head. I will get bashed, but there are quite a few metal bassists that will use a 5-string, or tune to 5-string like tuning.
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04-13-2011, 05:31 PM
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04-13-2011, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 5Bass5 What's POD? Sorry, this is like my first music forum. | The band P.O.D. No apology needed! 
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04-13-2011, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by IbanezBass69 Trapt, Breaking Benjamin. There are more, just can't think of them off the top of my head. I will get bashed, but there are quite a few metal bassists that will use a 5-string, or tune to 5-string like tuning. | What are those metal bands? I listen to some metal.
EDIT: I should say that my 5th string is a low B. |
04-13-2011, 05:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wethersfield, CT | | You got it on Christmas, and now in April you're just starting to figure out that it has 5 strings?! 
Seriously though, there are many people who play 5 strings now-a-days, they are widely accepted, except by ignorant purists. And, even by some of those 
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04-13-2011, 05:49 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | | Much of Dream Theater can be played on a 5-string, even though John Myung mostly uses a 6-string.
I believe John Moyer of Disturbed uses exclusively 5-strings.
Jason Newsted has played a 5-string for many Metallica songs ("Sad But True", for example).
Rob Trujillo uses 5-string basses a lot.
The Alter Bridge bassist uses one.
As I've said, they're everywhere.
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04-13-2011, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by FunkMetalBass I believe John Moyer of Disturbed uses exclusively 5-strings. | He does, but a lot of their early songs were 4 string, downtuned. The 5er may be useful here too.
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04-13-2011, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Some Alice In Chains songs are done on a 5er, Down In a Hole & Them Bones, for example. | You sure about that?
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04-13-2011, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassmingo You sure about that? | They could probably be done on a downtuned 4 string, to D flat, heh maybe that's what they're doing.
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04-13-2011, 06:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Victorville, CA | | Amon Amarth, Fear Factory, Mudvayne... just watch a bunch of music videos and look for five string basses  Also, a good number of bands use 4 strings tuned BEAD, so look up tunings of your favorite bands and rock it! Not to mention that there's plenty of great rock bands that use standard tuning, and when you hit that open E on the fifth fret of your B string, it sounds very full and awesome!
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04-13-2011, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike
They could probably be done on a downtuned 4 string, to D flat, heh maybe that's what they're doing.
| Dropped d flat, at least them bones is.
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04-13-2011, 06:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sartell, MN | | Megadeth used a 5 in at least one song, can't remember which, Slipknot tuned down to B, so you could learn their stuff. Jeroen from Obscura uses a 6, but you may be able to play some with a 5er, Cannibal Corpse. Simply for using the B string, Chevelle, Isis, Parkway drive, Drowning Pool. Here, I will make this easy. Here is a link to a Wiki page of bands that use B tuning. You should be able to play any of this stuff utilizing that raunchy low B. I love me a low B... B tuning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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04-13-2011, 06:19 PM
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04-13-2011, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Portugal | | | Rage against the machine has tracks with a 5 string bass if I'm not mistaken. |
04-13-2011, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Northampton, UK | | | On the heavier side Paolo Gregoletto of Trivium uses exclusively 5 string basses, Paul Gray of Slipknot played with a four string BEAD, frequently downtuned, David Ellefson of Megadeth uses a 5 string, the list goes on, alot of the heavier bands feature five string basses. |
04-13-2011, 06:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | It really doesn't matter what others are doing! If you like having five strings then that's what counts. At the moment I don't own a five string. I have in the past and would like to have another. Besides the ability to go below E, they give you the option of different hand positions than you can do with a four.
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