How To - You Wont Relent, Misty Edwards - 5/6 String Bass

How to play the bass intro to You Wont Relent (by Misty Edwards, David Brymer, & Cassie Campbell) on a 6 string bass. Also works for a 5 string if it's tuned high five (EADGC) but I recommend a 6 string because the low B string is useful later in the song. If you want to play it on a 4 or 5 string, I recommend using the method in my other video found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmqEE-WpQGs

I'm 100% positive this is the way Cassie plays the song. 100% positive, folks. One. Hundred. Percent.

She's the original recording artist, by the way. It was birthed in the Global Prayer Room at International House of Prayer. The story is really phenomenal and convicting to me as a musician. I recommend checking it out - she tells the story in an interview here:
http://www.joshuahawkins.com/blog/2010/01/interview-cassie-campbell-electric-...
http://www.joshuahawkins.com/blog/2010/02/interview-cassie-campbell-part-2
http://www.joshuahawkins.com/blog/2010/02/interview-cassie-campbell-part-3

Note: The primary discrepancy I have between my video, and most of the other video tutorials I have seen for this song on youtube lies in the 7th note in: most other youtube tutorials play this note following the vocal line, however, a careful listen to the original would show that the original does NOT follow the vocal line here. The original is a G# (G string, 13th fret) and the other tutorials tend to have the note as a B. The vocal line goes to a B, but the note the bass is playing is a G# :) Listen to the original, or for great clarity, look up a video a user recently added to youtube with the title "Misty Edwards - You Won't Relent (Seal) - Fascinate 2011 [lyrics]"
Thanks
-Sierra

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• Misty Edwards
• Cassie Campbell
• David Brymer
• IHOP
• Worship
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• bass guitar
• how to
• relentless
• you won't relent
• Jesus
• 6 string

[naikuu]

@musicmessengers1 see my 4str how to for alternate fretting for a bass w/out a C string. To play with the positioning in this video, the C is necessary;). As for the swells, those aren't my idea-it's how Cassie (original bassist) plays it when she does it live. Thanks for the comment:)

[adamdonovan88]

Wow, I'm surprised you're not worried about suggesting to people to tune their basses up two and a half steps. That's a lot of tension

[naikuu]

@adamdonovan88 wasn't so much a suggestion as a provision for those who do use that tuning for their 5 string bass. i noted the high C tuning but then said i would keep it tuned to the low B. some people do a EADGC set up on their 5-string basses though. it would take setting up the bass entirely differently, using different strings, but it's not that unrealistic or unhealthy of a setup for your bass if done properly. i just didn't throw all that info in there.

[chiefskippy00]

first off thanks for the vid. great tone. obviously having your bass through the amp or whatever would be good at the part you broke down the lesson, but i was looking for an easy/ easier way to play it on a 5 string without re-tuning. moving to the E chord is where i could use someone else's thoughts. i just end up changing positions a lot. if you have a thought please let me know. thanks again for nicely explaining the song and how you play it! take care.

[naikuu]

@chiefskippy00 hey, thanks for your input! i really recommend you check out my other video, which is linked to in the info for this one, for how to play this song w/out C string, (BEADG)

the difference is in the 1st and last chord positioning.

sorry for the low volume during the explanation. i don't have a bass amp, and the parts where the bass is amplified i am just running it through a direct line-in to the computer, and so i wouldn't be able to speak and play at the same time.

[musicmessengers1]

You don't really need to tune up to a 6 string bass. I was able to play this song on my 5 string bass, standard tuning. AWESOME stuff I really like that volume swell effect you used. Didn't ever think about that one

[xMAKCx]

amazing!