7 strings newbie

[Watchootognbout]

That's like Me getting a buy one get one free of mining truck tires.


Something I don't need and won't use.

 

[gricko]

people drive trucks all the time, but never use the beds...
if i was offered 6 or 8 strings - that would be it. was not going for 7, it just landed in my lap.

and with that taken into the account, i would like to explore where it could take me or what could i do with it.

as per my OP, never wanted to slap, never was into using bass as non-rhythmic instrument. asked if somebody could point me into direction of some books, tutorials, YT or whatever, on techniques of using extended range that is not just about slapping and/or advanced chording/soloing.


hope that clears it

 

[Lance Bunyon]

5 is my happy place. I have one 6, the high C gets mostly ignored (and in the way).
The low F# sounds intriguing, but I can already hear my speaker cabs breaking...

 

[Lance Bunyon]

people drive trucks all the time, but never use the beds...
if i was offered 6 or 8 strings - that would be it. was not going for 7, it just landed in my lap.

and with that taken into the account, i would like to explore where it could take me or what could i do with it.

as per my OP, never wanted to slap, never was into using bass as non-rhythmic instrument. asked if somebody could point me into direction of some books, tutorials, YT or whatever, on techniques of using extended range that is not just about slapping and/or advanced chording/soloing.


hope that clears it

What's more rhythmic than slapping tapping in time?
My bass is mutltiple rhythm machines.

 

[el murdoque]

I have no idea if there are tutorials on 7s, rare as they are. They usually come as a highly specialized tool that is meant to solve a problem - and when you decide that you want/need a 7, you usually have the problem first and an Idea on how to solve it using one more string than is common.

I personally like lots of strings, but 6 is where I draw the line, and here is my reasoning:
The low B is low enough for me.
To play the B string with comfort, you need a good bass already.
The lowest notes are low enough for the role of bass in music.
Adding an F# as one lower string gets you a spaghetti that might be useful for a single note here and there, but rather for fretting higher up the neck (I mean, you get the open E string of a 4 string in the 10th fret position) than to actually use the 23Hz that is F# - because you'd need a normal bass rig and then a second, even bigger sub bass rig only to make the spectrum below 50Hz loud enough to matter - even the first harmonic of F#0 is less than 50Hz.
On the other end of the fret board, the high C is slim enough. Going higher usually means you get a piece of wire instead of what I call a bass string. I don't particularly enjoy playing strings that are not wound.

 

[Les Fret]

I personally like lots of strings, but 6 is where I draw the line, and here is my reasoning:
The low B is low enough for me.
To play the B string with comfort, you need a good bass already.
The lowest notes are low enough for the role of bass in music.
Adding an F# as one lower string gets you a spaghetti that might be useful for a single note here and there, but rather for fretting higher up the neck (I mean, you get the open E string of a 4 string in the 10th fret position) than to actually use the 23Hz that is F# - because you'd need a normal bass rig and then a second, even bigger sub bass rig only to make the spectrum below 50Hz loud enough to matter - even the first harmonic of F#0 is less than 50Hz.
On the other end of the fret board, the high C is slim enough. Going higher usually means you get a piece of wire instead of what I call a bass string. I don't particularly enjoy playing strings that are not wound.

That’s exactly why I don’t like basses with 7 or more strings. The low F# is useless if you don’t play doom metal. Also almost inaudible and too muddy in general. The high unwound F sounds way too thin and sounds more like a guitar than a bass. When I see a bass player with a 7 string I am just not interested in what they do in general. And this comes from a guy who plays six string basses and guitar and used to play Chapman Stick.