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5-string guitar playing

gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
edited July 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
i recently pulled my my guitar out of storage after 3 years. i haven't played a lick in all that time. depression, or something.
i'm a beginner/intermediate. but, i do some fantastic shit sometimes when i'm stoned.

anyway. after all this time in storage i pulled my guitar out of it's case to find that the bottom string had fallen to pieces. it's gone.

then my creative side kicked in. what if? can i re-tune it to play full chords? can i create a new scale with five strings?

of course i can.

i am the world's only 5-string guitar player.
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  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Bob Marley played 5-string...
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    Bob Marley played 5-string...

    I'm on the right track then.
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  • armanHammerarmanHammer Posts: 471
    Keith Richards.
    Riverside.. LA.. California. EV?
  • samquigleysamquigley Posts: 220
    I think I read somewhere that the B-52s' guitarist (whose name, shockingly, I don't know) plays with just three.
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Jeeze
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    armanHammer wrote:
    Keith Richards.

    really?
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  • armanHammerarmanHammer Posts: 471
    gue_barium wrote:
    really?

    Yes.
    Riverside.. LA.. California. EV?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    http://www.amazon.com/Five-String-Serenade-Love/dp/B00005MO1L
  • kigcatkigcat Posts: 298
    max cavelera used to only play with 4 (or so i was told) and im pretty sure john butler only uses 5 for alot of his slide work. (or it could be someone else im thinking of)
    I'm not saying stupidity should be a capital offence, but what say we take the safety labels off everything and let nature run it's course?
  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    the guy from Crazy Town (Butterfly, Toxic) played without his high E string
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    The day Lennon met McCartney, Lennon had four strings on his guitar, in a banjo tuning.
  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    The day Lennon met McCartney, Lennon had four strings on his guitar, in a banjo tuning.
    weren't they friends from grade school?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    scot88 wrote:
    weren't they friends from grade school?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/60sseason/documentaries/dayjohnmetpaul.shtml


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  • who's_pearljam?who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    armanHammer wrote:
    Keith Richards.

    He plays in a lot of tunings, but one of his main ones is open G on his Tele.
    He took the low string off so that the next to lowest string is the root (G) He even had the guitar nut and bridge altered so the strings are evenly spaced.

    Tune that sucker to GDGBD and have at it!

    Try this:
    Strum once open, then finger this and strum. (Low string at the bottom)

    0
    1
    0
    2
    0

    There's Keith there, although he didn't invent it, he sure made a living off those two chords right there! :D
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  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    who's_pearljam? wrote:
    He plays in a lot of tunings, but one of his main ones is open G on his Tele.
    He took the low string off so that the next to lowest string is the root (G) He even had the guitar nut and bridge altered so the strings are evenly spaced.

    Tune that sucker to GDGBD and have at it!

    Try this:
    Strum once open, then finger this and strum. (Low string at the bottom)

    0
    1
    0
    2
    0

    There's Keith there, although he didn't invent it, he sure made a living off those two chords right there! :D

    Which brings us back to teh very first argumanrt I had on this board with FPC about how I though Keith could not be thought of as having great chops cos the fucker couldn't even play with 6 strings.

    There's also a guy called Jimmy Bower who plays in Superjoint ritual who plays without the high E and B.

    BTW gue, youi just might want a new set, if teh 6th string has disintegrated, the other 5 are gonna sound like shit!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    Keith Richards very first Zemaitis guitar only had 5 strings.

    http://www.zemaitis.net i believe

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  • seanw1010seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    buy a new set of strings. even if you just want to play 5 strings, you stil need a new set. the guitar has not had a string change in 5 yrs, so you really need a change
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    seanw1010 wrote:
    buy a new set of strings. even if you just want to play 5 strings, you stil need a new set. the guitar has not had a string change in 5 yrs, so you really need a change


    Haha, this is the bottom line, gue. Get another string, and let's jam online. There are ways and means of doing this.
  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Without totally hikacking this thread, cos it's still talking about Keith Richards, I need to ask FPC if he still resprects Keith after hearing the story of how he tried to sabotage Hendrix' career by getting that rich chick who was helping him abducted by her father ??

    I sure lost a lot of respect at that point.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    lucylespian wrote:
    Without totally hikacking this thread, cos it's still talking about Keith Richards, I need to ask FPC if he still resprects Keith after hearing the story of how he tried to sabotage Hendrix' career by getting that rich chick who was helping him abducted by her father ??

    I sure lost a lot of respect at that point.
    What happened??????!?!?!??!!

    We're hijacking another thread...

    On topic, get new strings!
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  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    keeponrockin wrote:
    What happened??????!?!?!??!!

    We're hijacking another thread...

    On topic, get new strings!

    There was this rich chick in New York or Greenwich Village whose name I can't remember, who was obsessed with the blues, and was helping Hendrix get established by introducing him to people and stuff. Trouble is, she was an ex-girlfriend of Keith Richeards, and he was jealous as shit, of the man and his music most likely. So Richards writes to this girl's father and tells him his daughter is hangin out with a black drug addict, so Dad sends an agent over, and using old English law, takes her home and puts her under house arrest.
    So Hendrix career was threatened by this.
    So, despite the fact that I used to love Richards plyaing and riffmeistery, I now consider hims to be an incompetent hack who can't even deal with 6 strings.
    I posed the question to FPC, cos I know how much he reveres Hendrix.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • run_into_the_rainrun_into_the_rain Posts: 93
    On the string thing I thimk Kurt Cobain used five on the something in the way recording.
    the vocal man for CKY ocasionally uses a guitar with only the low three



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  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    run_into_the_rain wrote:
    On the string thing I thimk Kurt Cobain used five on the something in the way recording.
    the vocal man for CKY ocasionally uses a guitar with only the low three

    I think it was six for Kurt but it was a shit guitar. If you notice, the Chello is out of tune with the guitar because the guitar was terrible.
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    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
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