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I am an acoustic guitar player, but I have been looking at playing 6 string bass. I know the difference between the guitars, I want to know the difference between the playing style.
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Do you mean a full-scale six-string bass, or a bass VI like the old Fender bass VI or the Schecter Hellcat VI? A bass VI has a 30" scale, tuned E-e one octave below a standard guitar, and close string spacing. You can play it pretty much like a standard guitar but if you try to strum standard open chords on it, you'll sound godawfully muddy - much better played fingerstyle. Listen to old Ventures songs, and early Cream - Jack Bruce used one on the first album.
A six-string bass usually has a 34-35" scale and is tuned B-E-A-D-G-C, with that B way down where the bottom end of a piano keyboard is. I haven't tried, but it would be a nightmare to try to finger standard guitar chords across it and would sound like a thunderstorm rather than music to strum all six strings. You can play it quite effectively with any normal bass technique - finger, pick, or slap. The middle four strings are the same as a standard bass guitar, the extra two strings just give you more range and flexibility. They're popular in jazz settings especially where people want to play more melodic lines running up the C string. You can play them chordally but it's nothing like strumming along on an acoustic guitar. You really have to use bass guitar technique, there's not too much resemblance to guitar technique other than that it has strings and frets.
Do you mean a full-scale six-string bass, or a bass VI like the old Fender bass VI or the Schecter Hellcat VI? A bass VI has a 30" scale, tuned E-e one octave below a standard guitar, and close string spacing. You can play it pretty much like a standard guitar but if you try to strum standard open chords on it, you'll sound godawfully muddy - much better played fingerstyle. Listen to old Ventures songs, and early Cream - Jack Bruce used one on the first album.
A six-string bass usually has a 34-35" scale and is tuned B-E-A-D-G-C, with that B way down where the bottom end of a piano keyboard is. I haven't tried, but it would be a nightmare to try to finger standard guitar chords across it and would sound like a thunderstorm rather than music to strum all six strings. You can play it quite effectively with any normal bass technique - finger, pick, or slap. The middle four strings are the same as a standard bass guitar, the extra two strings just give you more range and flexibility. They're popular in jazz settings especially where people want to play more melodic lines running up the C string. You can play them chordally but it's nothing like strumming along on an acoustic guitar. You really have to use bass guitar technique, there's not too much resemblance to guitar technique other than that it has strings and frets.
How to make your finger change chords faster in acoustic guitar?
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I'm a new acoustic guitar player. I don't have lessons i already knew the chords but my fingers aren't fast or good enough to change chords? Is their any chords that is good enough to make my finger change like a and d chords?
Answer
Practice, practice, practice.
Right now, you're still learning chords, so you have to slowly and laboriously place...each...finger on the right strings, hope you're not inadvertently muting open strings, and hope you're pressing hard enough.
The only way to get faster at changing chords is to develop muscle memory in your left hand, so that the chord shapes become so familiar that you can just think "D chord" or whatever, and your fingers automatically know where to go.
But the only way to develop that muscle memory is through sheer repetition -- forming different chord shapes and switching between them over and over and over and over and over and....so on.
Practice, practice, practice.
Practice, practice, practice.
Right now, you're still learning chords, so you have to slowly and laboriously place...each...finger on the right strings, hope you're not inadvertently muting open strings, and hope you're pressing hard enough.
The only way to get faster at changing chords is to develop muscle memory in your left hand, so that the chord shapes become so familiar that you can just think "D chord" or whatever, and your fingers automatically know where to go.
But the only way to develop that muscle memory is through sheer repetition -- forming different chord shapes and switching between them over and over and over and over and over and....so on.
Practice, practice, practice.
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