Hehe… seed planted 
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I will patiently await Yamaha’s release of the BB736 in stealth black 
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@joergkutter I guess it’s just us! Admittedly my four is primary, but most of my practice and noodling these days is on the 6. Ibanez SDGR SR506.
Nice bass! The neck is huge. I like that Harley Benton, are they as good as people say (for the price)?
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I think there are a few, @kerushlow; most notably @LesterH who just recently got an Ibanez 6-string!
I can’t claim to play a lot on the 6-string, but I want to have the option… and the HB is indeed amazingly good for the price. Yes, scratchy pots and less than smoothly working tuners, but the setup was great, and the pre-amp is packing a punch… and the bass plays nicely. Heavy though… very heavy 
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The 6 string is about all I have been working with over the past couple of weeks. In my opinion the only way to become completely comfortable with it is to play it a lot
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I just posted a sample of what I am practicing or working on with the 6 string bass The original songs and compositions Laboratory - #121 by LesterH
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Good playing man. Jazz band phrases are my biggest weakness
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I suppose practicing it would help lol. I lean more towards rock, funk and Prog…as far as my playing style. I do have a few jazzier things that slip in sometimes, I think from some of the listening I do it just sneaks in subconsciously. I have tremendous respect for the Jazz skill set for any musician, it is the peak of technicality and skill
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I just started to get into the 6 string world.
For right now it’s tuned b to c. I may experiment later.
I’m also in the process of putting together a 34" scale 6 string baritone guitar. Tuned E to E . 
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That sounds real glorious. Please keep us updated.
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I played one at a guitar center once…it was so weird. I do play a bit of guitar, and do the chords from guitar translate…but were so beefy…it didn’t quite work, but also wasn’t as bad as a similar chord on the bass with the lower strings in use. I guess modified chords would work and definitely solos!
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Will do. 
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I’ve been working on it for quite a while but I’m unable to get to my shop to get to it and all the parts and goodies for it are upstairs in my self proclaimed studio, alas at this time I can’t get to it either. 
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(Cort Action PJ sitting next to Thomson T6)
Yo fellow Sixers! I hope this thread is still alive. 
So I’ve started learning bass last March 2023 and started playing in our church maybe after a month or two. I’m amazed how people play with 6 strings and be able to do things outside the low end. So this year, January 3, I got my own 6 strings (a very cheap one I guess it’s from China which is distributed here in the Philippines). Everything sounds well and is playable. I love the the active preamp. Their website didn’t have much details of the specs but here it is. https://www.thomson.ph/copy-of-ibb. I’m not sure what IBB means but it says it’s a copy of that.
Not much of a challenge in remembering that I now have that B string so I got to play it in the church last Sunday January 14. Everything went well!
Now, I’d like to know, what’s the best way to learn this beast? I know it’s almost the same as playing my 4 string with extra notes on it. But is there a better practice or technique to maximize it? My goal is to be able to do chords and do some parts of the guitar/lead on it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not to piss off our guitarist but we don’t have a lead player and the guitarist only plays the chords (they don’t even know what dominant chords etc is). Everyone is pretty much a beginner. After all, all I want is to serve the song and help the congregation with the worship, the best I can.
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Welcome!
I might have started this thread a while back, but have to admit that I since kicked the habit (playing a six string) 
I am not sure how many (serious) 6-string players we have at the moment, but your post could perhaps indeed revive this thread and bring the players out of hiding. (I am pretty sure @Al1885 owns at least a 6-string 
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A multiscale 6 string beast?!! How does it play?
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Surprisingly well, being 6er I respect the instrument and was careful when playing so there weren’t a lot of miss notes unlike going from 4 to 5 string. 
That said the playing the first fret can be painful at times. Some would say that it’s the inherited trait of a multiscale but my custom short scale multi scale you see on the left has no problem giving me all kinds of comfort when I put my index finger over the nut.
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