The Bass in Fifths

[David Powell]

I'm the same way;- a real low-lifer. Since I have adopted 5 strings with the low BB across all of my basses, I have transposed many of my lines to include the lowest notes possible. If you have a low C, check out Footprints played an octave lower than Ron Carter's line. It's more like "Hoof prints" . Try it also with a bow. Slower. Really dark, IMO. Different and cool spooky.

I've been really curious about how this harmonics / resonance phenomenon works with 5th tuning, so I am doing some ****ysis on the frequencies in the circle of fifths vs. those in the reciprocal circle of fourths. So far it appears that there may indeed be a difference. I'll let you know when I have something more definite. It's all math the way I see it, but how it it heard is more important.