5 stringers, 6 stringers, 7......

Some 7 strings are down at F#

 

http://talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=30511&highlight=string+basses

 

Well, what you have to remember about the bass is that it is usually tuned in fourths. How you tune it, of course, is entirely up to you, but in an effort to answer your question:

6 strings add another higher string, making them B E A D G C

Then it gets tricky, cause sevens can have one higher or occasionally another lower on.
making them B E A D G C F with another higher string, or F# B E A D G C with another lower one.

Eight strings mostly have both one higher and lower, making them F# B E A D G C F,

I'm guessing nine strings have another higher one, which would make them F# B E A D G C F Bb, cause I can't imagine ever needing anything lower than an F#.

Hope this helps.
Again, I could always be wrong
-Maurice

 

generally 6's have an extra high string , and i think its usually tuned to C (?).

this is so you can play more notes without changing position

 

How do you play it? How wide is the neck?
I suppose you hardly move your fingers up down .
How will the sound of F# be? I think B is already low enough. Will the F# string audible?

I always remember what Jeff Berlin says that more than 4 strings is just playing lower and higher note and does not make a better music

 

Playing notes in the same range forever doesn't make good music either.

A 9 string bass is playing just like a regular bass, only you need to have very good muting and left hand/thumb technique. Or, you could play it like a classical guitar. Or, you could use it as a tapping instrument. Or, you could use a pick and strum. Or all of the above. And more. It's your choice.

F# is audible. I've heard them played solitarily in BD's videos or used as the root of a chord, and I've heard them in JT's song he's posted. They're audible. They're what...~9-11 hZ above average cutoff (20hZ)? So most people should be able to hear it.

 

Angus,

What is the width of the neck of a 9 stringers ? , cos I might be interested if my fingers is long enough to play comfortably, which is most important to me.

 

Angus,

I played classical guitar before bass. I thought 6 strings guitar is more than enough to play with and can play all of classical guitar books.
If you said you can strum bass guitar how will the sound be?

Then, do we really need anymore electric guitar and guitarist?

 

the low F# isn't 100 % audible.. you don't hear it all.. but you sure as hell will feel it..

 

I think I would hear the fundamental of the low F# (for as of now, my hearing is great, but it's likely to deteriorate as I grow older)... but even if you don't hear all the way down to the very fundamental, the brain will "fill in the blanks" so to speak, so it doesn't matter.

 

Actually, 2 of my 5s are tuned with a high C.

 

22 hz can be heard by almost everyone. Our hearing deteriorates with age and/or frequent exposure to loud noises, but it is primarily the high frequencies and the midrange that hearing loss occurs in.

 

Then let us all play no less than 7 strings

 

That Man-boy thing again? This is your final warning!


15hz penalty... loss of string.