How the FRICK does this guy slide his harmonics

[RandomKaren]

Sliding harmonics on fretless is easy but not sure I could do it that fast and that fluently!

 

[Michedelic]

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I heard Percy Jones, Mick Karn, and Fernando Saunders(while playing with Lou Reed)do that sort of thing decades ago.

 

[Pauly 4001]

I heard Percy Jones, Mick Karn, and Fernando Saunders(while playing with Lou Reed)do that sort of thing decades ago.

Percy Jones used sliding harmonics all the time



Mick Karn too though with all the chorus and flanging it's sometimes hard to distinguish:

 

[Michedelic]

Percy Jones used sliding harmonics all the time



Mick Karn too though with all the chorus and flanging it's sometimes hard to distinguish:

Yep; and in the midst of all this brutal guitar onslaught, Fernando employs it as a call and response with the chorus vocal, at 2:03(and further)…

 

[Passinwind]

Yep; and in the midst of all this brutal guitar onslaught, Fernando employs it as a call and response with the chorus vocal, at 2:03(and further)…

Saunders used it a lot when I saw him in John McLaughlin’s One Truth Band as well.

 

[Eminor3rd]

Evidence you can do this on fretted, at about 1:15:

 

[sean_on_bass]

You can slide chimes on a fretless.

You can't slide chimes on a fretted bass.

you can definitely slide them on a fretted bass, but it aint as pretty.

 

[sean_on_bass]

Right. As stated before, if I have a fretted bass with really crystal clear harmonics I can sometimes move the harmonic a whole step. The fret then changes the fundamental.

the trick is to not fully fret the notes, and you can get farther with the harmonic slide. it's kind of like sliding your finger on top of the string without fully pressing down for the string to make contact with the frets.