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Any fun songs to play on a 5 string?
- Thread starter Maxwell Tremont
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I just pretend it’s lollipops. Every time I play a note I imagine I’m eating one the conductor left on the railroad track.Looks intimidating!!
You can play any song on a 5 string. A pick, "we don't need no stinking pick" to play a 5 string.
This one has a pocket so deep, you can knit a sweater with the lint:
Brian Dunne-Drums and Klyde Jones-Bass . . . Both formerly of the Average White Band
Brian Dunne-Drums and Klyde Jones-Bass . . . Both formerly of the Average White Band
These are just a few. IF you're interested. Many say it ain't Country but it IS Southern Rock. These are some of but many staples that are still very popular and requested by audience members. You want your phone to ring with paying gigs? Assemble a solid Young Country band that plays these types of songs well. We did it for 4.5 years and we had about 55 shows a year. Private parties, pubs, weddings, civic gigs. Just play it well and they will come.
These aren't technically heavy but there's still skill involved in playin' 'em clean and proper.
Anything Country after 2009. Lotsa popular music that people will PAY you to play.
This Luke Bryan song is a great challenge to play cleanly:
Homeboy; Eric Church:
Tattoos on This Town:
She's Country:
My Kinda Party:
These aren't technically heavy but there's still skill involved in playin' 'em clean and proper.
Anything Country after 2009. Lotsa popular music that people will PAY you to play.
This Luke Bryan song is a great challenge to play cleanly:
Homeboy; Eric Church:
Tattoos on This Town:
She's Country:
My Kinda Party:
Uptown Funk. I Wish (Stevie Wonder) is a good work out getting used to a 5 string vs a 4.
Enjoy, and don't give up on it!
Nothing like a roaring rendition of Hot Cross Buns!
I usually just try to play music on a five string.
EDIT actually that's a highly debatable statement ugh
EDIT actually that's a highly debatable statement ugh
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Came here to say this. SUPER fun song to play. Just learned it recently. Not too hard either.
I bought my first 5-string about 18 years ago after a long hiatus from playing. Bought it for a totally different genre for a band I started playing with, but when I started noodling on it, I instantly tilted towards playing 80’s synth bass songs. I remember thinking “wait a minute…” I started playing P.Y.T. then West End Girls. That 5 string along with having a Line 6 Lowdown 110 with a built in synth effect, I couldn’t help it, if I wanted to.
