TheBestAlex

I understand but nobody can help you there... Playing a 4 strings part with a 5 strings is the real problem here from the start, you had to learn that the red string isn't the lowest string of your bass and changing this might take some time to adapt. But at least now you can correctly play with 5 strings displayed as it should be in the first place!

Lol, yeah I know, unfortunately I don't have a 4-string and if I did I would have played with that, and may not be having any problem. So excited, but bummed at the same time. Thanks for understanding, lol. Now I just need every existing song changed to a 5-string chart, lmfao. QQQQQQQQ

Haha, I'll just stop now, I'm gonna try charting some 5-string songs and see how this all plays out. I'm very excited, but like I said, I think there is going to be a HUGE learning curve and close to impossible to fluidly switch between 4-string and 5-string charts for me using only my 5-string bass. 

I'm not talking about charting songs either, I mean actually playing and reading what is to be played correctly.

I don't think anyone is understanding my dilemma or maybe you all pretty much have the same problem and are only playing a 5-string bass, but it's not a big deal.

 

 

Well, some people play both the guitar and bass, I think it's more of a thing to adapt between a guitar and a bass than a 5 string and a 4 string.

That top string is always red between a guitar and a 4-string bass though. For me switching between a 4-string chart and a 5-string chart, playing my 5-string bass, the colors will be associated to different string each time.

 

I'm not the most knowledgeable on guitars, but aren't some songs tuned B standard where the strings are B-E-A-D and so forth on guitar too.

 

I have a 5-string bass, now I am only using 4 strings on my 5-string (not using the B-string). The tuning can be changed to anything and I will still be reading the colors associated to the strings the same (just as a guitar player tuned to B-E-A-D instead of E-A-D-G). NOW I go to play a 5-string bass chart and NOW the B-string is in the mix (this is my top string). Now this means the colors aren't associated the same anymore. It has nothing to do with tuning but with number of strings.

Well, some people play both the guitar and bass, I think it's more of a thing to adapt between a guitar and a bass than a 5 string and a 4 string.

That top string is always red between a guitar and a 4-string bass though. For me switching between a 4-string chart and a 5-string chart, playing my 5-string bass, the colors will be associated to different string each time.

Okay let me try to explain better what I mean. I play on a 5-string bass. Up until now I've obviously only used the standard 4-strings. So here's the way I read the game (E-Red, A-Yellow, D-Blue, G-Orange). So now I go to play a 5-string bass chart and everything is set up differently (B-Red, E-Yellow, A-Blue, D-Orange, G-Green). While in theory it sounds quite simple, each color will now just be up one string, BUT I've become so used to the old way that I think adapting to the new colors will take a while. PLUS now when I go back to a 4-string chart I have to re-associate the colors again. I know this probably seems like a little problem, but I think it's sorta a nightmare.

I still see a problem though. 5-string songs, versus every other 4-string song in existence is going to be read differently. I have a feeling this could be sorta tricky to adapt to, going back and forth. Now I want every song to be re-written in different colors.

Okay, nevermind.... I should read and look at everything. It just gets tedious in these forums. So you can chart 5-strings for bass and have them appear!!!! This is awesome now I just have to read more and figure out how, lol.

I'm just probably a bad writer, I get that every time I return an essay :P

 

Let me try to clarify it: let's take a song from In Flames, Deliver Us, as an example (cheers to Firekorn for doing In Flames cdlc's). In that song the bass is tuned to C drop Bb, that means the lowest string is tuned to Bb. Because normally Rocksmith doesn't allow you to tune bass below C you cannot make a correct cdlc for bass of that song, or if you do you cannot play it with a bass.

 

Now with this fix you can have a cdlc of that song where you can physically have your bass tuned to Bb and play it and have rocksmith register all the notes just like any other song. There is no "virtual" tuning or anything.

 

Before Rocksmith was basically incompatible with songs for 5-string basses because normally the lowest string on a 5-string bass is tuned to B or below (and B is just below C). Now with this it is possible and I hope people start making cdlc's for 5-strings, I have been thinking of getting one for myself :)

Well, it'd still have to be a song that only uses 4-strings no matter how you stack it. Just now you can use B E A D. Probably will be a little tricky picking out songs that don't play anything on the G. Also, for me atleast, trying to "read" a rocksmith chart to be played on a 5-string instead of standard 4-string would be tricky, as instead of playing the 4-strings and reading the game the way I always have, now I'd be up 1-string, reading the colors completely different than I always have. If this makes any sense at all, lmfao.