" was 5 minutes or so with each scale type, same patterns as a 4 string.mine unfortunately was fitted with a Tomastic Tail piece - its garbage,the E string fine tuner was striped at delivery, seller replaced with a Witter tail piece.make sure it has the Witter tail piece!better stings, Evah Pirazzi's or Dominant sets have great soundwith these strings (the E looks Ghetto

They also warned me that the C string that comes with the 5-string is not very good

The strings are decent, the case is okay, but it would be good to have a better bow