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11-02-2005, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | What tuning do you play in? Alter's? Standards?
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Just wondering.
I play in drop d and in variations of drop d. I for some reason can write more interesting lines in this tuning and I love the way an open D sounds when your nailing it with a pick or fingers.
DADG and DADA for 4 strings.
DADGC and DADAD for 5 ers (When I get one  )
ADADGC and ADADADG for 7's (When I get one )
What about you guys?
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11-02-2005, 08:46 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Standard and drop D exclusively. |
11-03-2005, 08:31 AM
| | Have you...killed the Venture brothers!?!? | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Connecticut | | I play standard, although for my guitars I tune down to CFA#D#GC (aka the Hardcore power chord tone of doom  )
Why I haven't bought a 7-String yet I'm not sure
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11-03-2005, 08:33 AM
| | Workin' up a black sweat. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Andover, MA | | | BEADG
or EADG
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11-03-2005, 08:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by JimmyM Standard and drop D exclusively. | Yep, Hipshot on every bass but the fretless for me.
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11-03-2005, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Boston, MA | | | standard
D,A,D, G
D, Ab, Db, Gb
C, G, C, F |
11-03-2005, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: T-Dizzle fo shizzle | | | Standard and d,a,d,g.
I'd love to get a hipshot, but I think a new bass is in order long before that.
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11-03-2005, 09:26 AM
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Seymour Duncan/Basslines SMB-5A Endorsing Artist | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cuernavaca 1 hr S Mexico City | | | BEADG, hipshot to AEADG fretted and fretless bolt-ons
EADGC fretless neckthru
the '58 Precision is EADG hipshot to DADG, but I haven't used it since I got the newest custom fretted and fretless bolt-ons . . . maybe I should think about selling it (after returning it to a more "stock" set-up). Anybody interested?
BTW, I've had that '58 since 1967 - 38 years!!! |
11-03-2005, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Freeport, NY, USA | | | I almost exclusively play in standard (BEADG). There are a few songs that I'll play with drop D if I need to play D open for some parts (Hammer-ons with D being the low note). But I usually try to work around that by playing D on the B string. But, of course, there are some songs where I just can't do that comfortably, so I play BDADG, and don't touch the B string much.
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11-03-2005, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Baltimore | | | 95% - A 440
Rest - DGCF
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11-03-2005, 10:52 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | I have one bass in EADG and one in DGCF (I call this my "Money" tuning). |
11-03-2005, 11:38 AM
| | Dumbing My Process Down | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Michigan | | | I play a half step down, with a hipshot on the low E.
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11-03-2005, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: East Bay, CA. | | | I tune to BEADGC on my bass and I have two guitars that I tune to EADGCF or BEADGC.
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11-03-2005, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons Yep, Hipshot on every bass but the fretless for me. | Yeah, I play in standard and drop-D only as well. I was thinking of getting a Hipshot, but I can't decide if it's worth it!
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11-03-2005, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: The Hammer | | | Something I want to experiment with...major 3rds
Has anyone tried tuning in major 3rds?
for example:
4 string: e g# c e
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five string: b d# g b d#
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six string: b d# g b d# g
This would give you a chromatic scale with one finger per fret. - less shifting around on the fingerboard.
- fingering patterns would be duplicated every 4th string - especially nice on a six string, where the top 3 strings would be the same notes as the bottom 3 (an octave up of course).
- You could use larger gauges on the smaller strings as they are tuned gradually lower (than standard tuning) - giving more consistancy in tone between strings. |
11-03-2005, 08:05 PM
| | I wish I could sing like Rick Danko. | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Shreveport LA | | | Just plain old EADG. |
11-03-2005, 09:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: San Jose, CA | | | ive always wanted to try DADA, but im afraid of breaking a string. |
11-04-2005, 10:07 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | D#
G#
C#
F#
I'll occasionally tune up to F flat if I'm subbing for someone.
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11-04-2005, 11:57 AM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | I have been playing open G tuning at rehearsal for about a month now and nobody else in the band has noticed.
D-G-D-G-B-D
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11-04-2005, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | Right now, I'm tuned a half step down, EbAbDbGb, simply for the open Eb/D#, which I've been needing in a few of our originals. I was tired of always tuning between songs, and I hadn't really considered detuning every string. I like it, though. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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