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02-13-2005, 08:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | What is a piccolo Bass ????
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Ok, I've heard of these but I don't know what they are. So, what is a piccolo bass? |
02-13-2005, 09:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | Piccolo Bass is a bass guitar that is tuned one octave higher than a standard bass. Obviously, this requires different gauge strings (lighter) to accomplish the task.
Some Reasons for Piccolo Bass:
Range:
Obviously one can achieve higher range with a Pic Bass
Chords:
As chords tend to sound muddy on a regular bass, chords can sound quite sweet on a piccolo.
Midi:
Midi converters don't track well on low frequencies (noted delays and inaccuracies due to Frequencies being "close" together) Consequently, a piccolo bass makes a much better midi instrument. (Then the midi is just transformed down an octave.)
Brian Bromberg uses piccolo basses (steel and nylon string) quite extensively in his album "Bassically Speaking". I highly recommend checking it out. |
02-14-2005, 11:31 AM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | I have three or four extra short scale six string piccolo basses lying around the house.
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02-14-2005, 01:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | A pic is a bass strung and tuned an octave up, like the bottom four strings on a guitar. It's somewhat contreversial, many call it dumb, but it allows us four stringers to expand our range significantly. It's definately worth trying if you have an extra bass laying around.
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02-14-2005, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons A pic is a bass strung and tuned an octave up, like the bottom four strings on a guitar. It's somewhat contreversial, many call it dumb, but it allows us four stringers to expand our range significantly. It's definately worth trying if you have an extra bass laying around. | Really? People get upset about that? I bet it's the same crowd who proposed the underwear fine in VA. Jackasses. |
02-14-2005, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Nuremberg, Germany | | | I would love to be in a band where the guitarist plays a baritone and I play a piccolo bass.
Piccolo basses are fun but outside of solo work I personally feel they're somewhat useless.
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02-14-2005, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead Really? People get upset about that? I bet it's the same crowd who proposed the underwear fine in VA. Jackasses. | I guesss its here more than there. I brought my pic to a recording session to double the bassline and the engineer and my band went through the roof because "a bass is supposed to be an octave BELOW the guitars"
Ignorance I guess.
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02-14-2005, 08:12 PM
| | | | I tried to do the piccolo thing on my Rick once, but I had to raise the action too high for comfort in order to get the strings to quit laying right across the first fret. A differently cut nut was in order, but I didn't want to go that far. From what I understand, though, other basses don't have that issue. Piccolos are fun though, it's fun to shoot the chords and flail away in that register utilizing your hard-learned bass guitar playing techniques (as opposed to just playing a regular guitar with its shorter scale length and close string spacing). |
02-14-2005, 08:19 PM
| | Workin' up a black sweat. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Andover, MA | | | A picollo bass is a tiny bass you blow on.
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02-15-2005, 02:12 AM
| | | | What brands make piccolo basses these days, i love to check one out! |
02-15-2005, 05:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany (org. Preston, UK) | | | I'd love to make a track with bass and pic bass insted of those d**n guitars |
02-15-2005, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Thurisarz What brands make piccolo basses these days, i love to check one out! | Just take any bass & string it with 'piccolo' strings- Ken Smith makes them. I've done it w/ a Warwick bolt-on Thumb 4- adjusted the truss rod, & away we went. |
02-24-2005, 09:25 AM
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02-24-2005, 02:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kingston, NY/Middletown, CT | | | i think its a 4 string ADGC, not sure though |
04-27-2007, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead  Really? People get upset about that? I bet it's the same crowd who proposed the underwear fine in VA. Jackasses. |
underwear fine??
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04-27-2007, 06:20 AM
| | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, California. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by embellisher I have three or four extra short scale six string piccolo basses lying around the house. |
good man !
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04-27-2007, 06:22 AM
| | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, California. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jay_esplana Well, Whats a Tenor Bass? | A Tenor bass is tuned one string up... meaning a standard four string would be EADG... But a Tenor would be strung ADGC. Quote:
Originally Posted by werbo1 i think its a 4 string ADGC, not sure though | Im not 100% sure, but I think a piccolo bass is tuned exactly like a guitar, however it sounds like a bass, just played really high up, opposed to a guitar.
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04-27-2007, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by werbo1 i think its a 4 string ADGC, not sure though | That would be correct. Wooten uses one quite a bit. |
04-28-2007, 02:07 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | While we're at it, I suppose... can anybody tell me what one would call a bass strung up DGCF (in a similar vein to the tenor ADGC, just one more string up) |
04-28-2007, 02:21 AM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | alto bass, teleologically.
or maybe... countertenor bass? or castrato bass? nononowait... that's guitar. 
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