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My bass is tuned AHEF

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VinKreepo

Nov 13, 2009
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#1
So a dude on YouTube had a comment left that he played the song in a particular video wrong (names and subject left out to protect his dignity).

Commentator: thanks but u see u are playing the second part of ***********, just listen to it, u are playing the second part where it goes higher, the first part goes
0-3-55-57-88-8(10)-77-53-35. but anyway u still did a great cover! thanks for the help!

Video poster: heh ther's no 1 , 11, 34 ,55, or anything like that, learn notes not tabs, if u said to me 13 on 3rd string i don't know what's that but if u said fis2 than i know, btw my guitar was tuned AEHF, not like standard GDAE, because song needed that...

Sooo... where is H on my fretboard? And aren't violins tuned GDAE with basses tuned EADG? Lol even if it was a typo I about died laughing. #1 rule of correcting critiques... don't say something stupid
 
#10
Meatbass said:
Isn't it GDAE?
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No, usually tuning is referred to using the lowest note first. So E string...A...D...G. This is tuning in fourths since they are a fourth apart. The other stringed instruments (besides guitar) are tuned in fifths so lowest is G then D A E (cello is CGDA). Tuning in fifths gives a great range, but it requires more hand movement up and down the fingerboard.

The tab for A major on bass with the least hand sliding would look like:
G ----------------- |
D -----------4-6-7- |
A -----4-5-7------- |
E -5-7--------------|

On violin, it looks like:
E------------------ |
A------------------ |
D-------0-2-4-6-7- |
G-2-4-6----------- |

That would suck on the upright bass (specially in jazz), so tuning in fourths was adopted and most bassists still use the EADG tuning today. However, you may have noticed metal players tend to stick to two strings and move up and down the fretboard, so some metal players use a 4 string tuned like a cello just an octave lower (CDGA) so they almost have the low B of a 5 string and still manage to go higher than the G of an EADG tuned bass.
 
#16
pklima said:
Close - H is B and B is Bb.

In Poland, we use German standards (with H and B) for classical and folk music, but American (with B and Bb) for American or English originated styles like jazz. With pop music it could be either way...
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Yup. It always bugged me when I started out. Because I'm self taught I've never called it H, so in the beginning when someone would give me the chords for a song (let's say G B C) I'd play it wrong, because they meant G Bb C. :P

A B H C D E F G, where's the logic? :help:
 
#18
By some reason we learn to call it H in Norway, even though B is the correct name (the alphabet goes A-B-C-D-E-F-G, not A-H-C...). Somehow I call it H when I play saxophone, and B when I'm playing bass or guitar. But, at least it's the one and only time we use a stupid way of dealing with these kind of things, compared to all these clumsy things like feet, inches, Fahrenheit, and the biggest fail in history - NTFS (which somebody insisted on NOT getting rid of even after entering the digital world. Jeez, it's a pain to work with).
 

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