Would it be more advantageous on a 5 string bass when tuned to dropped C to: A: keep the bass in standard and treat the first fret of the B as the open C, and play everything on the other strings two frets lower, or B: tune the bass to dropped C, and only have a half step in between the open B and C?
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Dropped C on a 5 string
- Thread starter XAxiomX
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Technique forum would have been better.
Your guitars may play in 'dropped C' tuning, but why would you need
to change your tuning at all on a 5 string to accomodate them?
Your string gauges are perfectly fine
the way you are tuned normally BEADG and your low C is
available on the first fret of the B. Why wouldn't you just
play your bass from that pattern. Who cares how the other
instruments, guitars, cellos, sax or trombone are tuned? As long as
you are playing in the same key.
The 5 string gives you this advantage already without changing tuning.
Just becuase you guitarist needs to tune down, you don't have to,
you are already down to 32 HZ, no need to go
any lower or change your scale at all.
Your guitars may play in 'dropped C' tuning, but why would you need
to change your tuning at all on a 5 string to accomodate them?
Your string gauges are perfectly fine
the way you are tuned normally BEADG and your low C is
available on the first fret of the B. Why wouldn't you just
play your bass from that pattern. Who cares how the other
instruments, guitars, cellos, sax or trombone are tuned? As long as
you are playing in the same key.
The 5 string gives you this advantage already without changing tuning.
Just becuase you guitarist needs to tune down, you don't have to,
you are already down to 32 HZ, no need to go
any lower or change your scale at all.
If your guitar player rides the low C a lot you could always just tune the B up a half step so you can have it open, leave the other strings in standard EADG tuning. Would throw off the scale patterns a bit if you used your low string but it could work.
Later
Rob
Later
Rob
by drop c are you all talking about
CGCF?
thats what the guitarist in my band uses all the time, and I always have to tune to that with my 5
CGCF?
thats what the guitarist in my band uses all the time, and I always have to tune to that with my 5
That's a daft question - what do you do if you're tuned to B and you want to resolve up to the B from an A#? By your logic you should always be tuning lower!
