Me. I play a 4 when I'm very lazy. When i'm not lazy, i usually reach for my 6 instead of a 5ver.
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What's so great about 6 strings?
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Me. I play a 4 when I'm very lazy. When i'm not lazy, i usually reach for my 6 instead of a 5ver.
After playing a 5 exclusively for about 3 years, I now love the zippiness of a 4 !
Like in baseball, when you warm up with two bats to make the one bat seem lighter, I just seem to be way more comfortable on a 4 than I did before playing 5's.
Undecided if I am going to sell my 5, but I'll never sell my 6.
Like in baseball, when you warm up with two bats to make the one bat seem lighter, I just seem to be way more comfortable on a 4 than I did before playing 5's.
Undecided if I am going to sell my 5, but I'll never sell my 6.
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IMHO a fiver is a lot more flexible than a four, lots of more options for good positions etc. I started on a five and can't for my life imagine playin a four, fours are crippled. Would be nice to test a six one day, but that will have to wait, first things first.
D.Don
D.Don
George Porter started out on a 4 string with a busted tuning key, so it only had 3 strings on it.
On the other hand, there is this curious character named Anthony Jackson.....
On the other hand, there is this curious character named Anthony Jackson.....
Hi chaps, this is my first post in TB.
I started playing Bass with a 5 stringer, then "expanded" my horizons with a 4 string bass... Yep, from 5 to 4, now I play the 6 string one.
Reason why? They all sound different, and I play different things with them.
My 6 string bass is fretless and it helps a lot to play a fretless bass if it have them extra strings, I know I'll be hitting the right note because I can move more on a up and down scale than in a 4 or 5 string bass. At the same time I can produce more tricks with 6 strings than with 4 or 5.
Problem, I'm terrible at slapping, and for me to slap I prefer an 4 string. Simple too, and sometimes I just prefer to play simple depending on what I'm playing.
My first bass was a 5 string bass because I though it would be cool, but now I learned that sometimes less is more, and that you have to love them all really.
None is better, is the player who is better.
If you can play it with an extra string why not?
Laterz.
I started playing Bass with a 5 stringer, then "expanded" my horizons with a 4 string bass... Yep, from 5 to 4, now I play the 6 string one.
Reason why? They all sound different, and I play different things with them.
My 6 string bass is fretless and it helps a lot to play a fretless bass if it have them extra strings, I know I'll be hitting the right note because I can move more on a up and down scale than in a 4 or 5 string bass. At the same time I can produce more tricks with 6 strings than with 4 or 5.
Problem, I'm terrible at slapping, and for me to slap I prefer an 4 string. Simple too, and sometimes I just prefer to play simple depending on what I'm playing.
My first bass was a 5 string bass because I though it would be cool, but now I learned that sometimes less is more, and that you have to love them all really.
None is better, is the player who is better.
If you can play it with an extra string why not?
Laterz.
I prefer five year old threads, but that's just me. I don't think five is necessarily better than six. Even a four year old thread will get the job done, you just have less time to work with. It's really all about what you do with it.
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
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