Once considered a novelty, but now fully integrated into the bass guitar family, the six-string bass is a fact of modern bass life. Whereas the five-string is looked upon as a regular bass with an added low B, strangely most of us consider the six-string to be cast from an entirely different mould – probably down to losing all points of reference on the neck with the regular strings being in the thick of it all.
“It’s like having a car with a larger engine,” Anthony Jackson told Bass Player. “It doesn’t mean you’re going to go faster all the time, but high speeds are less of a strain. If Leo Fender could come back today I think he would approve.”
