{"id":11186,"date":"2017-05-10T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2017-05-10T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:19:14","slug":"how-good-can-a-6-string-bass-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/how-good-can-a-6-string-bass-sound.html","title":{"rendered":"How good can a 6-string bass sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on with the theme of 6-string basses this week, below are a few examples of how good the 6-string bass can sound.<\/p>\n<p>In this first example, we hear a classical piece by Bach. Generous use of the higher frets and treble strings are played.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPdgs_0QSHI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this second example is one of the 6-string&#8217;s main strengths, chording. When you want to break out from single notes and get the smooth, warm chords from a bass that really sing, the 6 really works well here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzhLvyDDWAM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this third example we see a fretless 6 used for that fantastic extra-wide tonal range when playing jazz.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JJjDp_A9zQ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Are the high notes of the 6 the best reason to use one?<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice in all 3 videos above that it&#8217;s the treble notes the players favor rather than the bass notes. It&#8217;s the extra range on the treble side that is of more use, generally speaking.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that when you want high treble notes on the 4-string, you can simply use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ghs-bass-boomers-p3045-4-string-long-scale-plus-piccolo.htm\">piccolo strings<\/a>. The tradeoff however is that the entire tonal character of the 4-string changes by going up an entire octave.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also true that instead of B-E-A-D-G tuning on a 5-string, you could use E-A-D-G-C. In fact, there are more than a few 5-string players who do this because it feels more natural to &#8220;have the E on top&#8221; and with the high C on the 1 string.<\/p>\n<p>With the 6-string however, it&#8217;s not so much the high C that makes it great, but rather having the low B <em>and<\/em> the high C for <strong>an extended range of notes you can actually use<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most 6-string players agree that 6 strings provides the &#8220;just right&#8221; amount of tonal range for all the lows and highs one would ever need.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean you should give up your 4 in favor of a 6? No. It just means that the 6 actually does make sense, musically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes the most musical sense to you? The standard 4, the 5 or the 6?<\/p>\n<p>Also know that we do carry a good selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bass-pickups\/shopby\/6_string.htm\">6-string pickups<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bridges\/shopby\/6_string.htm\">6-string bridges<\/a> (we sell bass gear so of course we have to mention that). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on with the theme of 6-string basses this week, below are a few examples of how good the 6-string bass can sound. In this first example, we hear a classical piece by Bach. Generous use of the higher frets and treble strings are played. In this second example is one of the 6-string&#8217;s main &#8230; <a title=\"How good can a 6-string bass sound?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/how-good-can-a-6-string-bass-sound.html\" aria-label=\"More on How good can a 6-string bass sound?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}