Bass Tuning on Individual Thought Patterns

[DropD-66]

Hi Mr. DiGiorgio (or to anyone who can answer my question for sure):

I am a huge fan of your work in every project you play in! I am a university music student, and I'm currently working on a transcription project for an analysis class. For the project, I chose to transcribe and analyze my favorite Death song: "Nothing Is Everything". It would help me out a great deal if I knew what tuning you played in on the album; is it the same as the Control Denied tuning (DGCFA#)?

Thank you very much to anyone who answers!

 

[HippieOfDoom]

Thanks so much for the compliment! I'm honored that you would take a 20 year old song and give it some 21st century attention!

Yeah, you got it. On that album I used a home made 4 string fretless. It was tuned DGCF. Pretty easy, straight forward stuff. Please let me know how it goes, I'm assuming that you are just transcribing the bass lines?
SDG

 

[DropD-66]

Thanks so much for replying! I'm actually doing the project on the entire song, so I'm transcribing all of the parts. It's so satisfying that I eventually hope to expand and transcribe the entire album since I love it so much, the main reason being the wonderful bass lines and sound. Thank you again for being such an inspiration to me, bass-wise and just music in general! \m/

 

[DropD-66]

Hello again Mr. DiGiorgio,

I finally had time to make all the revisions to the project that I wanted to. Would you be interested in having a look at the score? I'm fairly confident about the guitar and drum parts, but since I worked from the full recording, at times it was difficult to discern a few bass parts. I'd love it if you could give me any feedback on this real labor of love for me!

Thank you so much!