How is an upright bass tuned?

An Upright bass is tuned just like a 4 string electric. Low to high, it's E A D G.

Music doesn't depend on how the instrument is tuned. The notes are the same. A D will always be a D, etc.

 

well while im a a player of its "electric cousin" i would think its tuned the same....

 

If you want to start learning to read music, don't go to jazz books. That's learning to do run marathons before you can walk.

Go to www.musictheory.net and do each of the lessons, starting at the beginning.

You will not only learn to read music, but you will be able to write it, know it before you hear it, and you will understand how it works, which is like nothing else in the world.

 

And no, upright basses are only in 4 strings. Advanced models have a C extender which makes the E string longer, going down to an open C.

 

Good to hear it, and good luck!

 

I have a 5 string upright bass!!



Tuned BEADG !

 

Double Bass does sound very different for manay reasons - but the most obvious difference is that a typical DB has 42" scale length and so the strings are much longer than on a BG with 34" scale length.

Everything is bigger on a DB and it requires more effort to move the strings - the "envelope" of the sound is different - so DB has a much faster decay with a bloom at the beginning - whereas BG is a more consistent sustain through the envelope.

Also - BG usually has an unnatural mid-range emphasis - whereas DB has more of the low fundamental tone - although they are in fact the same pitches - you hear them as very different sounds.

 

Until I hold and play a 5 string upright bass, I refuse to admit they exist

Fancy photoshopping you guys did there

 

Believe it!! I have a 1930's 5-string, (at least for one more week). They were typically more common in Europe.

Monte

 

Hey Citric; you might be interested in this link to the site for the Hawaii Intl. Jazz Fest. July 18-19 at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, and July 25-26 at the Wailea Marriott, in your neck of the woods. I'll be there with a couple of bands, and you can check out a couple of other great bassists too (John Kolivas and Byron Yasui). There are clinics during the day, and I'll be running the jam sessions afterwards.http://hawaiijazz.com/

I have a cool CD that a saxophonist turned me onto a couple months ago...whole bunch of jazz fake books burned onto one CD. If you have a way of duping it, you can borrow it. I play near you 4-5 nights a week.

 

Citric...Mondays at Mulligan's 9:00-11:00 with Gypsy Pacific...Tues-Fri, Four Seasons 8:30-11:30 w/ Sal Godinez....Saturdays, Maalaea Grill 7:00-9:00 w/ Shiro Mori. These are my steady gigs as of today; I'm often not on them because I freelance and end up subbing them out a lot. I always try to have top quality players sub for me, like Bob Harrison or Doug White. I'm listed in the Maui phone directory if you want to chat.

A good way to fake an upright sound on BG is to pluck the strings up past the end of the fingerboard. Use a light attack and turn the volume down a bit. If you get it right, it works pretty well.

 

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