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 Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:50 pm
I want to know the bass tunings that are an octave lower and higher than standard tuning.
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:18 am
If you go an octave lower from, say, E, you'd get another E. Just one octave lower. =P
www.studybass.com has lots of articles on bassplaying and basic musical theory. You'd do good if you'd go there and read his material. Also, go to www.tunemybass.com , another one of his websites with loads of technical information.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:44 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:42 am
You don't want to downtune your bassguitar a whole octave. Tuning it down for more than two whole steps (From E to C is two whole steps) will severely hurt your sound.
If you want to sound like a horny mammoth, be my guest, but it won't improve the overall sound of your band.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:41 pm
heh i wish i had a band to play in.But i just have my tuning E flat,A flat,D flat and C flat.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:16 pm
I wouldn't recomend messing around with the tuning up to an octive, as said befor about 2 steps is as far as you want to go. tuning to flats is commen as is BEAD, and F#BEA is some times used, and such nonsense. I don't think you need to go that far though. Also if you tune your bass an octive higher you have a guitar with four strings. If you want to play an octive higher, just play on the second octive with one of those clampy things, I forget what they are called. Any ways, chaning the tuning by an octive would also require a huge set up to keep stringe hight correct, and innotation proper, not to metion you would have to adjust the nut, and do some thing to tension the strings so they don't flop all over the place, or break.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:46 am
flowergirl01 If you want to play an octive higher, just play on the second octive with one of those clampy things, I forget what they are called. Those are called capos (single: capo). I do not recommend using one, though, as quickly tuning your strings to the desired tuning you were trying to achieve with the capo is much easier. I find that using a capo detunes your strings slightly, so I have to retune my strings after that one song that needed the capo. Plus, practicing songs without a capo increases your skill, as you have to keep going back to that one note that you had capo'ed before. Then again, if you prefer playing with a capo, be my guest. But I prefer to play without one, so read and use what you need.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:11 pm
Darkplace_Assistant heh i wish i had a band to play in.But i just have my tuning E flat,A flat,D flat and C flat. Excuse me,i meant G flat not C flat. And thanks for you wisdom.It`s cause i`m planning to form a band later on adn i`m going to have 2 bass guitars and i wanted one to be tuned low and another high,but now i have a better idea.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:08 pm
Antiklontermiddel flowergirl01 If you want to play an octive higher, just play on the second octive with one of those clampy things, I forget what they are called. Those are called capos (single: capo). I do not recommend using one, though, as quickly tuning your strings to the desired tuning you were trying to achieve with the capo is much easier. I find that using a capo detunes your strings slightly, so I have to retune my strings after that one song that needed the capo. Plus, practicing songs without a capo increases your skill, as you have to keep going back to that one note that you had capo'ed before. Then again, if you prefer playing with a capo, be my guest. But I prefer to play without one, so read and use what you need. All true, but some people are too lazy to keep going back up to the begining of the second octave. Also if you are doing some furious fret work, I at least have found a Capo to be a large help. I don't really get much of a difference in my tuning, there is a small difference, like the needle going from 0 to about 3 either way usually flat, but that to me at least is tottally acceptable. On some other basses it could cause more of a change I would agree tottally. It really depends on the tuning machines. But I tottally agree that if it is possible to play with out one you should. Thanks also for reminding me. I can never remember what those are called. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:14 pm
Darkplace_Assistant Darkplace_Assistant heh i wish i had a band to play in.But i just have my tuning E flat,A flat,D flat and C flat. Excuse me,i meant G flat not C flat. And thanks for you wisdom.It`s cause i`m planning to form a band later on adn i`m going to have 2 bass guitars and i wanted one to be tuned low and another high,but now i have a better idea. If your going to do that, use first different settings, then tune one to a tenor bass with ADGC, and the other with BEAD. Have the tenor with more treble, and the I think you would call it an alto, with more bass. Or you can do a lead bass and rythem bass if you like. Or you can just have two basses playing for an extremly fat and thick sound. I remember one time a few of my friends and I made band that was like a parody of a grindcore kinda thing, we got I think four guitar players, three bass players, and two drummers, and one singer. We all shaired a few distortion pedals, and prity much just hammared E as fast as possible, with the drummers doing their fasted double bass they could muster, and made a six song CD. The band was called a**l Bombs, and the album was called In Your Face. I think we made like two copies of the CD, maybe three. I have to say it was horrible sounding, and there were people who liked it. Still it was a fun time.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:06 pm
It sound like much fun!
And yes i`m doing the rhythm bass main bass thing and the first thing i thought of when i suggested that was to have on bass tuned low and another tuned high.
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:27 pm
Antiklontermiddel flowergirl01 If you want to play an octive higher, just play on the second octive with one of those clampy things, I forget what they are called. Those are called capos (single: capo). I do not recommend using one, though, as quickly tuning your strings to the desired tuning you were trying to achieve with the capo is much easier. I find that using a capo detunes your strings slightly, so I have to retune my strings after that one song that needed the capo. Plus, practicing songs without a capo increases your skill, as you have to keep going back to that one note that you had capo'ed before. Then again, if you prefer playing with a capo, be my guest. But I prefer to play without one, so read and use what you need. Yeah, capoing a bass is completely unnecessary. In my general opinion it is on guitar too.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:37 pm
Also, I wouldn't tune your bass UP. It stretches out the strings, and it makes them a bit floppy if you go back to a lower tuning. Also, if you go up more than like, two steps, you'll start to break the string.
As far as capos go, I love them. They ARE necessary for many songs, and I find them very useful if I want to play a lot higher on my bass. That way, it changes the key that I'm playing in, and lets me use a lot higher open notes, and build a lot more chords than I normally could.
Capos are not to be underestimated, even on the bass. I love them, especially because of the inventive ways to use them.
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