5-string guitar playing

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gue_barium
gue_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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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Bob Marley played 5-string...
    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_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    Bob Marley played 5-string...

    I'm on the right track then.
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  • armanHammer
    armanHammer Posts: 471
    Keith Richards.
    Riverside.. LA.. California. EV?
  • samquigley
    samquigley Posts: 220
    I think I read somewhere that the B-52s' guitarist (whose name, shockingly, I don't know) plays with just three.
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 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_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    armanHammer wrote:
    Keith Richards.

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

    Yes.
    Riverside.. LA.. California. EV?
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.amazon.com/Five-String-Serenade-Love/dp/B00005MO1L
  • kigcat
    kigcat 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?
  • MichaelMcKevin
    MichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    the guy from Crazy Town (Butterfly, Toxic) played without his high E string
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The day Lennon met McCartney, Lennon had four strings on his guitar, in a banjo tuning.
  • scot88
    scot88 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?
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    scot88 wrote:
    weren't they friends from grade school?

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


    Have a listen to the archived show here! It's good!
  • 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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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian 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.
  • Guitarhero27
    Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    Keith Richards very first Zemaitis guitar only had 5 strings.

    http://www.zemaitis.net i believe

    (Art with strings)
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 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
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA 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.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian 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.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin 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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