Forget the piccolo bass; a $0 solution to a $500 bass problem

There’s something to be said for having 6 strings that are spread close enough to all be fret at once.
“The mind of man plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps.”
I’m not one to claim I know exactly how God has been involved in my life, but many times when things aren’t working out, [...]

Piccolo bass, it’s obvious now

I’ve been having trouble getting the strings that I thought I wanted to try, but it’s probably worked out for the best.
The D’Addario EXL280 XL Piccolo Bass Regular/Long String Set are easy to get, but they’re for an E-A-D-G tuning.
It finally occurred to me that all I need to do is add a bigger string [...]

Piccolo bass, they’ve already been there

If I always had someone to tell me what I need to know.
Other people have been stringing a bass guitar with small strings for a while, otherwise there wouldn’t be what’s called a piccolo bass.
There’s these D’Addario piccolo bass strings. The gauges are .020, .032, .042, .052 for a E-A-D-G tuning. But that’s not what [...]

Stringing a 6-string bass with guages like a guitar

I think I’ll try stringing a 6-string bass with gauges almost like a guitar.
The normal D string on a bass is .065, so the 6 strings will be .065, .045, .030, .022, .016, and .012.
The first two strings I’ll order as individual strings, and the other four as a set:

La Bella Hard Rockin’ [...]

Wanting things; aspiring to the funk

From lots of experimenting, I finally figured out that I need a 5-string bass with the strings tuned D-G-C-E-A, where the D is the normal D string on a bass. And the size of strings I need are .065, .045, .030, .024 or .022, and .016, with the .016 being a non-wound steel string. But [...]