Your Favourite Note- time to reveal all

[Old Horse Murphy]

Mine is G. I feel empowered and strong when I play it. It makes me happy

What's your fave?

[FinnDave]

F#, without a doubt. Only the lowest one, of course.

[T-Bay]

Open E on the Thunderbird, E for earthquake.

[dannybuoy]

Open D in Drop D. Or open B on a 5er!

[Grangur]

My favourite is D.

I thought this was alone in this. It seemed daft and illogical when I first found I like 1 note over the others. Thanks for posting.

[Woodinblack]

D on the B string.

[ahpook]

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1507490965' post='3385867']
D on the B string.
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I can see where you're coming from, but it has to be C# for me.

Cheeky, but not impertinent...a smooth finish with overtones of wood and warm copper

[Woodinblack]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1507492964' post='3385890']
I can see where you're coming from, but it has to be C# for me.
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But is that at 440Hz rather than 432Hz?

[ahpook]

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1507495546' post='3385918']
But is that at 440Hz rather than 432Hz?
[/quote]

440, but I tune to cps rather than Hz for that vintage tone.

Edited October 8, 2017 by ahpook

[Bobthedog]

Every bass line I hear and like appears to be in A, ideally on the 5th fret on the E string. At a pinch I do enjoy an E flat on the A string

Edited October 8, 2017 by Bobthedog

[Hobbayne]

Bb. A string first fret. You cant tell me that's not a pukka note.

[SimonEdward]

G# on the top string. Up high, I like to hit either a low open or fretted E to go with it... niiiiiiiiiiiiice

[paul_5]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1507504169' post='3385972']
Bb. A string first fret. You cant tell me that's not a pukka note.
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Dunno. I like Bb too, but prefer it at 6th fret on the E string; got a bit more meat to it.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' timestamp='1507488629' post='3385834']
Mine is G. I feel empowered and strong when I play it. It makes me happy

What's your fave?
[/quote]

Staggered to see that it's only Horse and me who realise that G is the well-spring, the motherlode, the key to it all, along with (of course) being The People's Key.

[JohnFitzgerald]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1507504169' post='3385972']
Bb. A string first fret. You cant tell me that's not a pukka note.
[/quote]

This is the best note !

The Chicken, played in Bb works best and it suits horn players down to a tee.

Makes it easy to play all of those jacoisms too.

[keeponehandloose]

E flat , when its been bent up from D.
Not quite perfectly bent but a slightly flat sounding flat.

[lowdown]

Always liked Gb, the note and the key.

[magee]

When I was a callow youth it was open E - nobody else in the band can get this low, I rule!

At some point I gravitated to low G. But lately I've been loving the resonance and harmonics of G, fifth fret on the D string. That little bit more refined, less boomy, a classier kind of G.

[Highfox]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1507644273' post='3386946']
Staggered to see that it's only Horse and me who realise that G is the well-spring, the motherlode, the key to it all, along with (of course) being The People's Key.
[/quote]

That G!
Sometimes F

[Cyrene]

I play microtones these days.

[Marc S]

E, definitely E....no, D.... or maybe Bb....

[Marc S]

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1508844903' post='3394772']
E, definitely E....no, D.... or maybe Bb....
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Or perhaps it's F# ..... no, I think it might be G after all

[AndyBob09]

G