Thought I'd share this recent project
one of my students is a young lad who has muscular dystrophy. He has been playing a barred open tuned guitar for a while and has a wicked sense of rhythm. But he wanted to play bass, and specifically wanted to play funk. Unfortunately his left hand is neither strong nor dexterous enough for him to use anything other than bar with his index finger (using his middle finger for extra strength)
So i came up with this, the DDD bass, using the 3/4 scale Samick that I had repaired the snapped neck on.
it works well, he can do the octave pop and generally funk out on it, his right hand is much more dexterous and he can do double fingering and has even started to slap
its tuned D1 D2 D3 , we tried DAD for the fifth, but he prefers it like this
obviously Ive had a go and its definitely the oddest tuning I have ever played on, but its actually a real bag of fun