![]() ![]() My 6-string Elan Plus is just standard 34 inch scale with purpleheart neck lams, and sounds good, but nothing special. My low B has an extra long scale (35) and ebony laminates, and it rocks. MY preference (assuming an either/or) is for the standard tuning in 4ths I LOVE a/the low B (assuming it's done right). My first teacher and mentor -who's a really sweet and swell guy, and who helped me get my two Alembics- owns about 250 stringed instruments, and I've played several of his, including standard electric basses and actual acoustic bass guitars -with both the standard tuning in 4ths (BEADGC) and the octave lower than standard guitar tuning.įirst, there is, of course, no right or wrong. I am also a guitarist I learned electric bass first (a standard 4-string) and then majored in guitar. Maybe Mark the 8stringking can help?Ĭary, the high F string on my custom 8-string Europa bass (B-E-A-D-G-C-F-Bb) is. I have no idea what guage string you would use for a high E on bass. I have used a 5 string tuned eadgc, and it worked fine, so tuning that string to b would, too. But if you use a standard 4 or 5 string, the difference in tuning doesn't come into play, since the eadg is the same as a guitar anyway. Seems that, with a tweak of the truss rods, a standard 6-string could do this well. I think Fender made such a beast in the 70's, Bass-VII or something like that. I was wondering if any of you have experience with tuning a 6-string bass like a regular guitar, but an octave lower. ![]() on a guitar, I wonder if there is a better way than re-learning them on bass. With all of the effort I put into learning scales, arpeggios, modes. Alembic Club: 6 string tuned E-A-D-G-B-E?Īdmittedly, I am a guitarist first and a bass-tourist as needed. ![]()
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