The latest acquisition

[bassman462]

ok so, i have a friend who has this 6 string and since hes going off to college and he needs some money for his car and stuff(he has a truck and hes going to cal polly for engineering.) he needs some extra money. he said he'd sell it to me for cheap since he has no use for it, and he's in need of the money. if my mom sells her car she said she'd loan the money to me. i just need to know what to ask for it. its an ibanez btb i found one just like it(color and everything) on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBANEZ-BTB-6-STRING ... dZViewItem

[i am sam2]

meh...what do you need 6 strings for?

[bassman462]

dream theater, primus, fool around with.

[Machtimus]

just got back from playing with the jazz band-- god i rock so much on the 4 strings

[i like tictacs]

six string are fun, but only if you have a four to go along with it. always playing a six string just gets annoying after awhile. nothing quite compares to playing on some wild-string bass for a month then going back to four. its like...

FREEDOM!

[bassman462]

ya, theres no way id sell my corvette without having a better 4 string replacing it. i was thinking asking like 350 for the bass, he really said hed let it go for cheap, but i dont wanna rip him off. he pretty much taught me alot at bass and he was just doing it to be helpful didnt stick me in one of his bass lessons just mentored me, i wouldnt be able to play harmonics as well as i do or be able to do slide harmonics or slap harmonics. i wouldnt be able to slap as fast or do the downstroke up stroke thumb thing. my timing would be twice as bad, ive gotten alot better with his help. so ya.

[i am sam2]

hey when you guys do the victor style thumb up and down slap thing...does it hurt your thumb at the beginning?

[bassman462]

kinda, i dont do it often, im not very good at it but i can do it, i use to do it in u cant hold no groove but i found out it sounds better without that. but sometimes it does i guess. i can only do it on D and G.

[i am sam2]

kinda, i dont do it often, im not very good at it but i can do it, i use to do it in u cant hold no groove but i found out it sounds better without that. but sometimes it does i guess. i can only do it on D and G.

see i cant do it very well...ive tried it, butits just not my thing. i use a lot of double thumping my thumb and the open hammer stuff to make a quicker sound but really playing super fast slap isnt my favorite (though that could be cuz i cant do it very well)...as victor says, just find your own thing and run with it...thats what i do

[i like tictacs]

it's really, really hard. the classical thump recording i put up earlier was all double thumped. it's SO hard to keep it clean at that speed. I usually find the E and A strings easier to thump because they are a bit easier to mute.

[bassman462]

ya i cant do it on classical thump, i can do little fills not very fast, but enough to get the point of what im doing.

[GSR]

ok so, i have a friend who has this 6 string and since hes going off to college and he needs some money for his car and stuff(he has a truck and hes going to cal polly for engineering.) he needs some extra money. he said he'd sell it to me for cheap since he has no use for it, and he's in need of the money. if my mom sells her car she said she'd loan the money to me. i just need to know what to ask for it. its an ibanez btb i found one just like it(color and everything) on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBANEZ-BTB-6-STRING ... dZViewItem

i kinda want that... i have a 4 string version of the btb and i love it...

what're the specs on that sucker?

[bassman462]

pretty sure its this one

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=h ... id/519691/


EDIT-http://www.ibanez.com/guitars/guitar.asp?model=BTB406QM

[GSR]

how much is he gonna make you pay for that?

[bassman462]

thats the thing i need to know what to offer. like i said he needs the money and said hed get rid of it for cheap. so im thinking probably 350