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"But it the end, you know it's gonna be me." Yeahhh, we love you JC!

what i like about my 5 sting, a nice place to rest the thumb and then play it like a 4 anyway

What just happened indeed… how cringe…

So... I have a 5 string and a 4 string, but my 4 string gets horrible radio noise interference since I moved, so I am recording with my 5 string these days, and man I miss my 4 string. He left out how much different slap style is on a 5 vs 4 string, anf the darn ringing and trying to mute all those strings lol. I can mute perfectly fine on a 4, but on a 5 it escapes me very often, maybe my hands just aren't big enough, but I say get both, but if you can only have one, then a 4 string.

Oh yeah? Dragonetti only needed 3 strings!

Yep, nice voice, but very unnactractive. Not as good looking as before. And, he will never be again!! Accept his " new reality."!!!

That subharmonic trick (2:00) is amazing, thanks. Also, thoughtful and compelling arguments aside, I still want a 5-string, and maybe a fretless, and a contrabass.

McCartney famously played a 5-string Wal MK2. Lee Sklar has a signature 5, Pino has played a 5-string fretless stingray. Chris Squire played a 5 in his later career also. I love the 4, and wish I could play more of it. But, the 5 has its place, and ultimately, no matter if your preference is a 4, you gotta play 5. That’s why I play a passive 5-string P bass on 85% of my gigs; I’d rather have that than some modern active instrument most of the time.

I love my 6 string basses!I agree you don't need a 5 string!

As long as I have a decent compressor I prefer the 5 since these metal players think lower is heavier...and invade my frequency range

it's a tugbar when it's in that position

if we're going down this rabbit hole, then let's commit: we don't need bass players period. Seriously, just tell your keyboard player to use his left hand, or get a submarine pickup.

Now this one makes sense. Best to have one of each TBH

If you want to work harder play 4 exclusively. If you want to work smarter, have a 5

Thanks for the tips bro imma buy me a fiver now!

Ok so I get how the glitch rack is a drum rack which needs midi. The samples weren't loaded and so I put them in according to name but they were not all there like Click 8 9 10 but no Mechanizer in the download.

Woah, well cool, Thanks for sharing friend 😊 The Lord’s love + grace be with you His Hope + peace, in Life, and beyond the grave Hope you are all well and resting in Jesus saving love + grace 😊 Warmest Love + blessings friends 😊

John 3 verse 16 ^_^ please search the Gospel (Bible) all who read this. Your soul is far to precious to gamble in thinking there is no hell or need for salvation in The Lord Jesus Blessings friends ^_^

Most people who play straight-up covers probably don't need a five onstage, except "to look cool." I doubled on bass for many years, then I picked up a "fun" gig at a weekly open jam. First off, with sometimes four (or more!) guitars whanging away, I needed to get some tonal distance from that crowd. Plus, it's annoying how many amateurs do EVERYTHING in E -- well, anyway, half their stuff. Rather than tune down, or buy a detuner and learn how to play DADG, it was simpler for me to buy a half-decent five (Washburn XB-500, $200). After I got some confidence, I wandered back toward a four, but strung BEAD.

This is not why you don’t need a 5-string: this is why you should not limit yourself to having just 5-strings, and how to best use a 5-string. Also some of your people who “exclusively” use 4-strings use 5-strings, too.

I fell for this old news and first bought a 4-string. When I bought a 5-string it seemed like a silly waste of money to have limited myself with a 4-string based on these old ideas. I hate that these videos are holding others back as well. #1. There are plenty of options if you look. #2. Why "trick" listeners into maybe thinking they hear a lower note when you can actually play the lower note. You don't "deal" with the 5-string, you get extra options. 3. 5 string has much better access to low notes than having to use drop tuners. 4. Not at all. 5. It's like saying the most influential keyboard players were classical pianists, so you don't need a keyboard you need a piano.

Really nice video. I Relu enjoy your bass videos. Keep up posting

Cool effects, didn't understand much tho

I love Lizzy McAlpine so much

Omg!! I hate having to have missed this.

Your notes are only as limited as your knowledge and imagination. You could stick to roots and 5ths and maybe even 3rds, but you don't have to. There are no wrong notes. It's how you use them that matters. I'm just trying to sound like me most of the time. I'm not looking to sound like someone else. You have so many ways to change the tone of your bass just by how and where you play it. I don't need 5 string but I definitely prefer it over the 4 string. It makes some things I do on a regular basis easier without constantly switching out basses or tuning/detuning my basses or without moving pretty far on the fretboard quickly. Plus, I like being able to shake every door in the house with just a single note. It is very satisfying in a way that I can't use words to describe. You don't need a specific bass to have the same/similar tone as someone else. A single bass has so many tones and emotions that it can play. You just have to figure out how to make it happen if that is what you want. Sounding like someone else is easy. Sounding like yourself is far more challenging for a lot of people. Finding their sound/voice but what they don't know is, it was always there from the beginning. Some people just lose it during the learning process, so they have to try to find it all over again. It's a lot harder the second time around. There is no cookie cutter way to get there for every bass player. There are some things theory can teach you but there is a lot that theory can never teach you. There are also things that theory can unteach you if you aren't careful that you might want later on. To make a long story short. Sound is just wiggly air in the end so make the air wiggle as you. Not them. You're the one playing. They had their time. It's good to have knowledge from them but generally you shouldn't aim to become them unless you are in a tribute band. Be yourself and feel what you have to say and let the bass speak through your playing. All depends on your goals with bass too.

very wow

Here’s one: 5 string basses are ugly and visually unbalanced. I used to work as a house engineer at a record company studio and in the 80s, when these things first started to be trendy, we had a sign that had a photocopy of a 5 string magazine ad with a cross through the low B string and the words- If you want to be a synth player, get a synth. Now, it was tongue in cheek and of course we recorded 5 string bassists. But if I’m going to work with a band and the bassist turns up with a 5 string I get concerned. Good players will be fine but the more is always better crowd are a problem. With few exceptions, the essence of great bass is simplicity and adding more bits to a normal bass makes it tempting to widdle widdle or try to come to the front too much. And this is coming from someone who came up when basses were first moving into the spotlight. Cf Joy Division, Killing Joke etc. Rock music tends to put the kick drum as the lowest instrument. Some more modern forms swap this around, metal (those clicking sounds they call a kick drum!) and any RnB that uses bass at all often have the electric bass making the most noise between 30 and 50 Hz but if you’re doing something that calls on the sound of the golden era (66-96) you’re gonna want to be careful about the kick and bass stepping on each other and usually choose to have the bass sitting in a pocket a whisker higher than the kick. And a string that goes a 5th below 41.2Hz down to about 31Hz is gonna make that hard if the bassist isn’t really careful.

So true! You don't need 5 strings.... You need 7!!!!! 😌😎🤣

My five-string is tuned in major thirds so I can keep the range of the four string. There's one thing you can only do on a five-string lol.

Great video man :) Awesome Edit too :) I honestly do play a tonne of 5 string these days, but yes you certainly don’t want to abuse that low B string!!! Great Video again… Subscribed

.... sigh

As a classical guitarist I recognise these fingering techniques

Respect to my fellow 4 string bass players! coming from a 5 string bass player that mostly plays gospel and r&b ✌️✌️

1. Not everyone wants to sound like a cardboard box strung with rubber bands. 2. Subharmonics as described in this video require a compressor and special amp settings, whereas low notes on an extended range bass can simply be played. 3. Detuners only go down to D (or C at best), whereas a 5 string goes down to B with no need to transpose. 4. This "physicality" he mentions is just a matter of technique and proper setup. 5. This was only true until 5-strings became normalized, and his examples are cherry-picked.

You expand your idea if you have an idea

A) You can alwats restring a 4 string with a .140" B and tune it B E A D. B) To get the sub harmonic attack the string at its mid point; open string play at the 12th fret, the 5th fret harmonic play at the 17th fret.

JC was always the best

Response - WHEN you don’t need a 5-string: th-cam.com/video/kjWIq-pDpoM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2Ckxm2irBC5kwcVH

5-string is the modern standard. 5-string basses often come in 35" scale or fan-fret variety, and you won't find many 4-strings in those styles

Thank you for this video ❤

what fender j bass is that!

too late

you need a 6 string bass.

good stuff. i was surprised that you didn’t touch on BEAD 4 strings. i’m in the beginning stages of research for a church bass, i could live without the g string

beautiful axes friend. ❤

Great job

Well in that case, why not play a six? There’s nothing you can play on a five that can’t play on a six. Then why not a seven? Or eight? Or ten?

Well in that case, why not play a six? There’s nothing you can play on a five that can’t play on a six. Then why not a seven? Or eight? Or ten?

Well in that case, why not play a six? There’s nothing you can play on a five that can’t play on a six. Then why not a seven? Or eight? Or ten?