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I started out on a 4 string, but loved the idea of a 5 (more strings has to better eh?). Eventually I wound up with a Hohner B-Bass V. It has quite a thin neck and the string spacing is narrow compared to a lot of 5's I've tried but I loved it. I basically dumped my 4 string in preference for it immediately. The fact that it was a vastly superior instrument to my 4 string helped, but also at the time a lot of the songs I was playing were in Eb so having the 4th Fret on the B was a god-send. Now I really struggle when I go back to a 4 string; because it doesn't have those lovely low notes.

[quote name='tom1946' post='1144134' date='Feb 28 2011, 07:48 AM']I play in a church band, I'm told I'll reap my reward in the land of glory [/quote] lol. Me too. I love to play and I'm a Christian so it's a no brainer (although some of the songs really are dreadful). Having to improvise bass lines to chords and transpose songs on the fly has improved my technical ability well beyond what I would have achieved playing in the covers band I'm in I think. Which is nice.

I'd never describe myself as a Jazz fan; but in the end the Jazz radio channel on GTA-IV was the one I typically tuned to. No idea what/who the songs/artists are, but there's some good music in there.

[quote name='Paul_C' post='903839' date='Jul 24 2010, 10:43 AM']here's a lefty bass player who I guess learned to play on a bass strung right handed :[/quote] There's a few of us lurking on the forum [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=25096&view=findpost&p=574578"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&sho...st&p=574578[/url]

[quote name='OldGit' post='884358' date='Jul 2 2010, 09:20 PM']You'll be needing a Shuker JJB P bass too then [/quote] I got to play one of those briefly when I picked up my Shuker a few years ago. They happened to be in for a re-fret. Forget steel frets, JJ needs titanium ones; the fret wear was something else.

I've got to the point where as long as I can hear myself, the dummer, and the vocalist I'm not bothered about the "sound" as I hear it. I take on faith that the gear I've got and the PA is producing the sound/tone that I've got set up. If the FOH sounds great then the punters will have a good time. Which is the important bit. I've played gigs where I've not been able to hear myself at all (they are never fun) but have had people tell me that I sounded great afterwards.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='853879' date='Jun 1 2010, 05:54 PM']Gaffa Tape. Over the whole fretboard up to the 7th fret.[/quote] - That would probably work thinking about it. Hmmm. Maybe I'll play everything above the 7th fret in practice sessions for the next 6 months. It'll probably have the added bonus of really annoying the keyboard player & guitarist - Win!

Dear Bass Agony Aunt. I appear to be completely incapable of learning any of the notes above the 7th fret on any string on my bass (except the 12th fret). I've been trying to overcome this proplem for a couple of years without success. What can I do to stamp the knowledge I seek indelibly into my brain? Yours, Lost for notes.

Nope, not a failed guitar player here either. I tried guitar but never really got on with it. It wasn't that I couldn't do it. It was more a case that I didn't find it particularly compelling. But picking up a bass for the first time just felt "right". Playing it was immediately satisfying in a way that guitar wasn't. I've never looked back since. I've got a nice 12 string semi-acoustic that I tinker on from time to time (or if I'm trying to pass on a bit of bass knowledge to a couple of younger bass players I know); but that's as far as the guitar and I go.

I love my 5 string bass That low B really comes in useful. Thanks for the you tube link though. I'd pretty much got it all right except in a couple of places (where I'd stopped paying attention I suspect) .

It might be worth giving some steel flat-wounds a go. I've never seen any non-black nylons.

I'm left handed, and when I got my fist bass (a right-handed one) I simply played it upside down as it felt much more natural to do so. My daughter is right-handed, but when she tinkers with my old right-handed bass she also plays it upside down. Her only reason is that "it feels wrong" to play the right handed bass the right way round. I'm hoping she'll get into playing in a big way at some point becase at least then I'll know my current bass will have a good home.

[quote name='4 candles' post='631750' date='Oct 20 2009, 08:19 PM']...If your wife(a non musician) gave you an ultimatum. Stop doing your gigs or we will have to part company. what would your answer be?...[/quote] "What do you hope to achieve by me stopping gigging?" In this hypothetical situation, she's obviously annoyed/unhappy about something. Maybe try to figure out what it is. I bet it's not really got that much to do with the gigs. Luckily for me, my wife loves watching TV; which is something I can't abide. So even if I didn't gig/practice we wouldn't actually spend any more time together than we do at the moment. She'd be watching TV and I'd be playing games on my PC.

Interesting. I've always played it as either: A string fret 5 then 7 D string fret 5 then 7 G string fret 5 then 7 or A string fret 5 then 8 D string fret 5 then 7 G string fret 5 then 7 I like to drop in the 6th fret on the D string sometimes as well.

A mod might want to remove the email address before Lee gets spammed to death when his email address gets scraped by forum-searching email-address extracting bots.