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your nut most love you ha ha haActually, the tension created from always keeping the GDAE strings in the same orientation and tuned to pitch will cause your bass neck to eventually twist like this...
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To avoid this type of costly damage to your bass all you need to do is change up the order of your strings a couple times a year. For instance, go from a GDAE string orientation to a DAEG orientation on your next string change. Problem solved!
Which explains why there is no Purple scale (or is there, but the illuminati is hiding it?)The blues scale was invented in St. Louis, the reds scale in Cincinnati, and the jazz scale in Utah.
That one could actually fly.Jimi Hendrix couldn't read music, so he invented the TAB system.