A short distraction

[Enzo]

Being something of a bass player - not much, just something - I aappreciate real ability.

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[Мастер]

Before live music got shut down for two years here, I noticed that the local hard rock band bass player had five strings.

And the guitar player had seven strings.

I wasn't used to that.

[Enzo]

5-string is quite common. I have seen 6-string, though the neck seems as wide as a sidewalk. Back in the 1960s Hagstrom made an 8-string bass, and I really wanted one. 8-string are still made. But an 8-string bass is really a 4-string with each string doubled an octave up. So analogous to a 12-string guitar.

7-strings guitar? There are a few ways to implement that. I have seen doubling just the G string, I have seen adding another string on the side.

Keith Richards - king of the rhythm guitar - usually removes a string, using just the top five. And also usually in an open tuning rather than conventional tuning.

You just can't...count... on strings anymore.

[Enzo]

Not always easy to see it, but Greg Lake plays an 8-string bass in this Fanfare video.

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[wring]

You just can't...count... on strings anymore.

Is that your string theory?

[Enzo]

Just a bassline hypothesis.

%/4 time is the feature of Take Five. Here is a 5/4 duel of bassists. Or maybe they just start as small 4-strings and grow into 5-strings.

Oh, and Aron Hodek is real, and amazing

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