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Should i get a 6 string????
- Thread starter rb26nate
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What's up with the 6 string threads today?
Go try them and find out yourself if you want one. We can give you facts, figures and opinions on them until you go insane, but it wont tell you if you want one or no.
Ray
Go try them and find out yourself if you want one. We can give you facts, figures and opinions on them until you go insane, but it wont tell you if you want one or no.
Ray
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you know you would only gain 4 lower notes and 4 higher notes. 
if you want one and you can afford it, why not?
if you want one and you can afford it, why not?
AND the ability to play a lot of stuff in 1st position alone. 8 more notes, less movement while playing = win win situation! IMO, of course.nickalan620 said:you know you would only gain 4 lower notes and 4 higher notes.
if you want one and you can afford it, why not?
Ray
I love having the range, you should get a six...it'll take a little getting used to the extra strings, but if you just perservere you'll be fine...the trick is not to think of it as anything more than a bass, six, seven, twelve whatever...its a bass nothing more nothing less...you make it as hard as you want it to be...if you think its going to be easy then its gonna be easy, if you make it hard, its going to be hard 
sargebaker said:
i love them both. whenever my friend is over i say "hey dude, hey dude...BEEEEEEE" and play the open B.
I know, I was just messing around.Bad_Habit_Bassist said:
If i ever got a Sixer I would tune it F#-B-E-A-D-G
b/c I cant stand the twang of the high strings. As Bad_Habit_Bassist said, a sixer would create less movement up and down the fretboard. If only there was a six string p-bass. 
