Just got a 5 string, and Im looking to learn some songs that use them, so post a list of bassist with 5 string and if you want a cool song by them to learn it. Thanks. Also post the band If you can.

Vortex- Dimmu Borgir, Borknagar, Lamented Souls
Alex Webster- Cannibal Corpse
Steve Digiorgio- A lot of bands
Scott Clendenin- Was in Death and Control Denied

Those are all I can remember, porst the ones you know.

Rob Trujillo
Paolo of Trivium
Jason Newsted
The guy from meshuggah

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Alot of Dream Theater would give you some good Low B action, check out their album Awake in particular.

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Devo, Marduk's current bass-player.

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Sean Malone
Erkki Silvennoinen - Amoral
John Bray - Alchemist
Eric Langlois - Cryptopsy
Ville Koistinen (he left after Nesphite though) - Demilich
James Genenz - Fleshgrind & Jungle Rot
Steve Cloutier - Gorguts
Ross Dolan - Immolation
The bass players for Nile
Rainer Landfermann - Pavor
Calle Löfgren - Visceral Bleeding

There are more too, but cant be arsed to list all of them

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Zero from D'espairsRay

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decapitated

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If I had to guess I would say that half of bass players in metal bands today are making use of more than four strings ... so just check out tons of bands.

Also, if you're just looking to get used to the B string, there are ALOT of songs in metal that extensively use the open E string (or Eb or whatever its tuned to), so you can learn these songs except you use the B string to achieve these notes instead.
That way a song that is drop D for example you can learn without having to tune down.
I've got to admit though that some songs will be very diffcult with this method.

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John plays a six.

But it still would give the guy some Low B action

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Point taken.

Mudvayne I believe uses a five. Been a while since I've seen them play live.

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Rex Brown used to use a 4 string, but later on he started using a 5 string in the later Pantera records and with Down.

Ryan from Mudvayne at the moment is actually mainly using a 4 string.. but he was using a 5 on some of the older stuff, he switches between basses im sure..

Good to see you again Tulvox, its been a while.

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Given the drop B and drop C tunings, I don't blame him for using a five.

And it's wonderfull to know you're alive Tattered.

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i dont think scott clendenin ever played with control denied..SDG wason the first album aswell as on the second one which still has to be released

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Jan Maier - Deadborn

at first glance I thought you said jon mayer

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Hey, John Mayer's bass player is pretty good.

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Haha yeah, I can see how that could happen quite easily.

I like John Mayer, very nice stuff. He did a duet with aussie Pete Murray a while ago on tv, and his guitar work was just beautiful.

Yes he is, Pino Palladino i beleive for most of the stuff, very groovy and melodic, but i dont think ive seen him use a five string.

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Pino plays with John Mayers little trio thing, I was referring to the guy that played with just "John Mayer".

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ISIS' bass player plays a 4 string bass but tunes it to Drop B, so you could learn their stuff, only you'd have to transpose.

And mudvayne has switched to Drop C, I think Ryan is playing a 4 string live now, although it's probably tuned to BEAD.

the one thing i hate about five stringed basses is that theres no neck room for technical stuff like slapping, unless you get a custom wide neck i guess. anyone know any standard 5 string basses with wide necks?

Also i think the guy from Cryptopsy uses a five string, that dude can rip it up thats forsure

ehm...bullshit?

you just have to be more careful with your placement.
Learn the spacing and know it, let the bass be an extension of you.

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Actually, here recently is when he started using his B string more. He used a 5 string almost all the time during the L.D. 50 days, but I don't think he ever actually used it. He used it on Mercy, Severity on TEOATTC, and he used it on several songs on Lost and Found. (Examples: Happy, IMN [a lot in that song,] Choices, etc. I know, because I have the Lost and Found tab book. Back when I was in my little nu-metal stage, I was obsessed with them. Now that I'm more of a "true" metalhead, I've lost intrest in most nu-metal. Mudvayne are about the only nu-metal band I care for anymore, and a lot of that is because Ryan Martinie is amazing. (Although they're more alt. metal if you ask me.)

And my best bet would be learning some Dimmu Borgir songs from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia and on. What Dimmu usually do now-a-days is use a certain type of power chord (can't think of what it's called) where the guitars are tuned standard, and say if it was playing:
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[4 444]
[2 222]
[2 222]

The bass would be playing this on his standard tuned 5 string:
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[0 000]

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+1
was Nile mentioned already? I believe Flea used a fiver on Blood Sugar as well.
edit: oh, and I believe the later two Atheist albums featured some five action.

Only in Elements and in a few songs occasionally (what I've noticed so far)
Nothing you couldnt play with a four string though

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thomas miller(symphony x)

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The bassist from Dark Moor uses a 5-String.