Matt Heller filed this blog post under 'extreme bass-geekdom' on his blog hellafrisch, and he's right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt's post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana's Ma Vlast. Matt plays it first in regular tuning and then with the A string tuned down a whole step to G (and his extension set to a D stop). This G-D-G-D tuning makes for a much more technically graceful solution for this passage, though Matt nails this...