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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:37 pm
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I just picked up my second Bass Guitar Recently it is a 6 String Peavey. Great looking Great Sounding Bass. I am wondering if anyone in here has any experience with a 6 sting bass and can give me tips or tell me about your preference in tuning etc. Let me know. I look forward to hearing some feed back.

Here is a picture of it. Great looking and playing guitar for the price.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:20 pm
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I'd tune it Low to High-B E A D G C

This put the standard 4 string bass on the 2-5 strings, and everything's tuned to a perfect Fourth (aka the 5th fret), so your scale shapes stay the same all over the neck.

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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:11 am
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Thats how it is tuned now thats how it came. I have messed with it a bit and its pretty fun. I have read about some people tuning it to the same as a guitar or B, E, A, D, G, B I am going to mess with it and see what fits my playing best.


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That would probably be more fun for a guitar player. I tunes my Electric Mandolin to D G B E a couple times, and played tiny little Guitar Leads on it.

Have you thought about F# B E A D E or something with two lower strings? (I've always wanted a 6 string bass, so your thread reall piqued my interest)

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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:55 pm
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I never even heard of a tuning like that. I just saw it and had to buy it for such a low price and now I can start having fun with it. I have played bass for about 12 years now and this is the first time I touch a 6 sting so its pretty fun. I have had it for about two weeks and I finally get to use it in a gig next weekend so I am really excited for that. It should be lots of fun.


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Unless I figured wrong, that tuning would give you two lower strings without changing shapes. I've been using my brothers 5 string latley, and I've fallen in love with the low B String. When I finally get my own Bass, it'll have to be a 5, or now maybe a 6 string. Unless I tune a 4 string B E A D.....do you suppose you'd miss the G string (no joke intended, but there you go).

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Unless I figured wrong, that tuning would give you two lower strings without changing shapes. I've been using my brothers 5 string latley, and I've fallen in love with the low B String. When I finally get my own Bass, it'll have to be a 5, or now maybe a 6 string. Unless I tune a 4 string B E A D.....do you suppose you'd miss the G string (no joke intended, but there you go).


I rarely miss a G string.

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I do use the G String (On my bass) pretty often while playing so I know I would miss it. But thats not a bad Idea if you dont use it much.


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