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WombleKiller
12-03-2005, 08:15 AM
I was thinking about tuning my bass into EADG, but with the whole step up of EADG standard (I.e, playing an open string would be like playing 12th fret.) I was pondering on whether this would be possible because I'm beggining to record songs of my own, which are very experimental/ Sigor Rós style. Obviously if I tried to do this with normal strings, they would snap and/or damage the bass, so is there any specialist strings that would allow this? Or better yet, as I am recording on my home computer, a computer program that would do this automatically, without changing the strings?

Thanks Any suggestions are appreciated! :thumb:
darrell
12-03-2005, 09:07 AM
It's more than a whole step that you are doing. It's actually 12 half steps... an entire octave (If I'm reading this right)...

You could just go buy a guitar because that is exactly what they have. :lol:

I don't know of any strings that can go that high. Strings for a tenor bass, perhaps... That still has a 4th or 5th to go. It probably won't work.
bleeding_fingers
12-03-2005, 09:21 AM
That would be a piccolo bass I think. Les Claypool uses one so there probably are strings with that light of a guage to tune it up an octave.
PaulR
12-03-2005, 09:23 AM
Buy a guitar.
EADG
12-03-2005, 01:21 PM
Get some piccolo bass strings, or if you can't find them, get an 8-string bass set and only use the thin ones. Save the regular size strings for another bass.


And don't listen to the unhelpful pricks here.
bass face
12-03-2005, 01:36 PM
i dont know why you would want to do that...just buy a guitar
EADG
12-03-2005, 01:37 PM
i dont know why you would want to do that...just buy a guitar


Would you tell that to Stu Hamm?
muthafunkabass
12-03-2005, 01:39 PM
i was thinking u should just get piccolo strings, but EADG's idea is definately better, go w/ that. :thumb:
lbanks
12-05-2005, 07:13 AM
I used the last 4 strings from a set of GT-7 strings(Snakeskins). Not a true pic, but give me what I needed.
Rollo47
12-05-2005, 07:41 AM
Would you tell that to Stu Hamm?

I love Charlotte's Song.
WombleKiller
12-05-2005, 11:11 AM
Get some piccolo bass strings, or if you can't find them, get an 8-string bass set and only use the thin ones. Save the regular size strings for another bass.


And don't listen to the unhelpful pricks here.

Ah, thanks! I really had no idea where to start with this, but now I know what to do! :)
Chris K
12-05-2005, 12:02 PM
Would you tell that to Stu Hamm?

Or Stanley Clarke, who is credited with inventing the thing...
Jody LeCompte
12-05-2005, 01:29 PM
Would you tell that to Stu Hamm?
Stu hamm doesnt tune 6 steps up....
AlmightyPancake
12-05-2005, 01:55 PM
Stu hamm doesnt tune 6 steps up....
You're right, he tunes twelve.


He owns a piccolo.





And I'd still tell him to buy a guitar.
moghes69
12-05-2005, 02:13 PM
actually its 8 steps hence octave... wow did i just bitch the almighty pancake...
AlmightyPancake
12-05-2005, 02:34 PM
actually its 8 steps hence octave... wow did i just bitch the almighty pancake...
No. How many steps are in the chromatic scale?


12.



Good job knowing what the **** you're talking about.



Octaves are 12 half-steps.
White_Summer
12-05-2005, 02:40 PM
yeah 12 half steps or six steps,
EADG
12-05-2005, 02:41 PM
No. How many steps are in the chromatic scale?

12.

Good job knowing what the **** you're talking about.

Octaves are 12 half-steps.


How do you figure he tunes 12 steps up? It's a piccolo bass, one octave higher, making it 12 half steps, making it 6 steps.
moghes69
12-05-2005, 02:42 PM
you said steps i new it could have and probaly did mean half steps which is correct, but i didn't mean it seriously... it was only a joke.


edit: in the time it took me to figure out how to say what i wanted to say,i was proven completely wrong... i was thinking in terms of diatonic steps...
EADG
12-05-2005, 02:44 PM
I love Charlotte's Song.


As do I, I have to relearn it for an audition on thursday.
EADG
12-05-2005, 02:45 PM
You're right, he tunes twelve.


He owns a piccolo.





And I'd still tell him to buy a guitar.


Don't you own a 7 string? You could tune your DGCF strings up a step and it would be in the same octave as a piccolo bass, you know.
White_Summer
12-05-2005, 02:49 PM
As do I, I have to relearn it for an audition on thursday.
what is there to audition for in peterborough?
EADG
12-05-2005, 02:57 PM
what is there to audition for in peterborough?


My school's Christmas assembly, which I'm auditioning for in 5 different acts (we don't have much talent).
red n black
12-05-2005, 03:05 PM
Dude, just buy guitar strings.

or, this is an idea I've been toying with. Are there any capos for bass? Or can you use a guitar capo for bass?
PaulR
12-05-2005, 03:06 PM
You can use a guitar capo.

Ironically, Mark Hoppus is a champion of this technique.
AlmightyPancake
12-05-2005, 03:08 PM
Don't you own a 7 string? You could tune your DGCF strings up a step and it would be in the same octave as a piccolo bass, you know.
Noooo I own two fours. One's tenor. And "whole steps" is the proper term, not "steps"