When is low tooo low?

[jar546]

Once again, due to vocal range we are changing the key of a song. It is a very easy yet popular song called Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash (like no one knew that).

It is being changed to the key of D which now makes the progression look something like this: D D D7 G7 D A7 D for basically the entire song.

The tone drops when going from the D7 to the G7 and when I play the fifth of the G I end up on my low B string playing a D.

The A is still lower than the D is played from the 5th fret of my E string down to either open E or 5th fret of the B string for the fifth. This is no big deal.

Does it make a difference when I go that low?

I tried starting an octave down on the D but it sounds to tinny and lacks the bottom end that this song requires. What would those with a 4 string do?

I had a similar issue with Margaritaville due to a key change and I just don't go as low as I should to compensate but no one notices.

Thoughts?

 

[sloshep]

If the D fifth fret A string sounds to thin, then play it 10th fret E string. That is what a 4 stringer would due. You could always play with the EQ to fatten it up or put on a set of flatwounds.

 

[strummer]

I don't get it?
Sounds like the normal thing to do, and a 4-stringer would probably just flip the d-tumer or simply tune down the E string to D.

 

[Aussie Mark]

With flats on a four banger EBMM the 5th fret D on the A string is thumpy whumpy enough.

 

[jar546]

Well, what I experimented with and decided to do was to use the 5th combo starting with the D on the 5th fret of the A and use the A of the E string as my fifth (rather than an open string) then for the lower G, I am using the 3rd fret of the E string as planned and instead of using the D on my B string, I am going up instead of down, using a 5th in the opposite direction back to the original D on the A string. Then for my A I am using the open E string as a 5th for that.

That actually sounds pretty good. I normally like the 5th in country to be lower than the root note but going up in this case actually sounds good.

I love my B string but anytime I hit the low end of it with a C, C#,D or D# I question why I am there in a normal song.

But as usual, I am given a key change and I adjust.

 

[rhythmCity944]

country music likes them low bass notes...at least how i play country music, haha

 

[tkarter]

Why not just play the open strings like an upright?

tk

 

[carpedebass]

Can't..........stand...........country..........must..........get..............away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bovinehost]

Folsom Prison Wizard Pinball Blues:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCvSqPe_tY"]YouTube - Folsom Prison Wizard[/ame]

 

[jar546]

There were too many strings on the bass in that video to count.

 

[rhythmCity944]

Can't..........stand...........country..........must..........get..............away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah me too...fun to play though...even more fun to play when the crowd is mostly female...

 

[Psycho Ward]

Country music has been very good to me.

 

[tkarter]

It is good to a lot of us Chuck.

We need a tejaz posse to go straighten some of the kids out is all.



Jack was noodln way up the neck there

tk

 

[PzoLover]

good ol' country music

Sum of us pretty much growed up on country music as much as we growed up at all ... in my neck o' the woods, low notez is all fine especially with an SR5 h/piezo, even the old fashioned Bluegrass Police whatz don't fancy anything but a doghouse, likes a good SR5 h/P groove with whumpy low notez from mid neck on the B string and the SR5 looks don't hurt the traditional Bluegrass visuals either, especially if the headgear is suitable to the event
ATB,
/PL

 

[midopa]

ahahaha Great cover Jack! Love the Pinball Wizard part ohohoh