Blog: "Play Nice" with the 8-string Guitar in Your Band

[everdrone]

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I have not really looked much into this low tuning, but I saw animals as leaders and they definitely did not play with a bassist at all!

I have their new record and the bass is easy to be felt. I dig 7 strings but I do not like the 8 strings, too hard to hear in a car and I just dont like those frequencies really.

this album:



if you have a subwoofer, watch out!

[spencer wright]

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Wow... interesting article... i like it so much... 8 strings star is so powerful...thanks a lot of sharing... cheers :-)

[Gearjoneser]

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I've punched bass players in the face, and they were normal....4 stringers! 8 stringers wouldn't have even been there to be punched! lol

[Falloffthebonetone]

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I can understand the desire to extend the range of an instrument, but most of the time it's just a pissing contest: "I tune to drop Z - I'm as metal as f**k"... "but I tune to drop Z flat, get that!"

Drop ZZ.5

[threechordcharlie]

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There are so many different options that a bassist in that situation can do, that it's really only limited to your comfort level and creativity. Peter (the fine gent that wrote that blog post) and I are teaming up and going to be putting together some audio samples to prove it.

This is not a new development. Anyone that's played with a pianist/keyboardist with a heavy left hand has already dealt with this issue for decades. It takes a little more planning and the ability to step out of what the bassist is "supposed" to be playing, which in this day and age is quite wide and varied.

LOL!
The first time that I played with a real piano player, I wanted to hold him down and choke him to death. After a couple of weeks however, we fell into a very cool groove and actually enhanced each other.
It still wasn't as bad an experience as going through the same monitor system with an electric drum set though!!

[One Bad Monkey]

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LOL!
The first time that I played with a real piano player, I wanted to hold him down and choke him to death. After a couple of weeks however, we fell into a very cool groove and actually enhanced each other.
It still wasn't as bad an experience as going through the same monitor system with an electric drum set though!!

That's how I can usually tell if I'm playing with a pianist that's used to playing solo, or with a group; where their left hand falls.

[everdrone]

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this quote from the article says it all:

"But no matter how you slice it, when you tune a bass down that low, you’re going to be felt more than heard, so you have to be okay with that from an emotional standpoint, which let’s face is is not always easy. Do you really want to be forced out of the sonic spectrum just because the guitarist wants to be able to chug out some Meshuggah? I guess it all depends on how strongly you feel about the music. "


I mean, who wants to be in a band where you cant be heard? that leaves less of a "band" and more of a virtuoso (which fits Animals as leaders)

[Adieu]

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Make him play rhythm and take solo! Scale length & string gauge allow for some neat crazyness with tapping, bends, hammers, pulls, and slaps in the teenth fret range on the first and second string....some of it undoable emtirely on geeetah!