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04-23-2007, 08:30 PM
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I have been really getting into my 6 string solo playing with chords and whatnot, but have had trouble introducing harmonics into play. Any tips on where to add them in a song or where in a chord. Thanks
Brandon
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04-23-2007, 09:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Just throw them in there willy-nilly. It's a little known fact that playing harmonics adds ten cool points to any bass solo, no matter which ones they are. Especially if you play two a fourth apart.
Also, I find it helpful to know that the harmonics at frets 3, 4, and 5 make a nice scale if you play them in the right order.
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04-23-2007, 09:55 PM
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04-24-2007, 01:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | Alvaro has a couple of videos at youtube which helped me a lot.First one is Portrait of Tracy,second is Okonkolé y Trompa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpefHm5sdM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm4o3O6qMTs
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04-26-2007, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Milwaukee, WI | | | The way I usually use hamonics is to use a fretted note, and tap the string right on the fret that's one octave above the fretted note (I don't mean 'fretboard tap'; I mean like tap the string sharply - NOT bringing it down to the fretboard).
You can hold a chord, and have two octaves of each note to choose from - or BOTH! If you 'hot-potato' right-off the string right-away, you get mainly the regular 'root' note; if you 'linger' on the string where you tapped for just a fraction of a sec, it's all octave harmonic!
..and yes: I've found that just randomly doing it at any-old-time will make people call you "a genius".
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Last edited by Joe P : 04-26-2007 at 12:07 PM.
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04-26-2007, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Don't forget about pinch harmonics! You can substitute pretty much any note at the end of a riff with a pinch harmonic on the same fret and it sounds good to me. I guess thats more for a rock/metal flavor though. |
04-30-2007, 05:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cooranbong, NSW | | | I'd say papajune takes the cake on this one. Victor Wooten (may he live forever) said that if you learn Portrait of Tracy, you know pretty much everything there is to know about harmonics. I've found it's helped me a heap with harmonic progressions, and lemur's right - chucking harmonics in randomly does earn 10 cool-points to your solo. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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