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#124 - Crash Course In Harmonics (Patreon)

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My fellow bassists,

Since the winner of the latest poll was "how to use harmonics in a song" I decided to create this lesson which is a crash course in all types of harmonics!

I go over natural, artificial and tapped harmonics and show you some ways I use them in songs. Here is the link to the natural harmonics etude I mentioned in this video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105-natural-104447448

Let me know if you want me to do a deeper dive into any of these types of harmonics. I don't really use artificial harmonics much myself but I could go more in depth on natural harmonics if you want!

Thanks for coming here and learning with me, have a great weekend and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles

Comments

Kyo

?charles is upside down at 1:28..!

Ralyks

Dude, wow that is beautiful. Please do more pretty things like this in the future, or if you would, please highlight this technique and emotional feeling in the next Tapping Piece you write for us. I absolutely LOVE this. I use some of your Tapping pieces or sections of them for Worship at my church. Definitely going to add this to my go to's when I'm asked to solo something beautiful and emotional. Moments of prayer and whatnot. Any other Bass Players that I should look up on the internet who frequently make use of this technique? Or more specifically have written pieces that have this kind of beautiful, otherworldly feeling? (Side Note) I hear some sections that remind me very much of the Zelda series. Any influence?

Rødgrød med Fløde

One of my favourite bass players: Steve Bailey, is a master of artificial harmonics, and he has quite a different approach with regards to techniques. I wish there could be more people checking out his music, his playing is beautiful.

Charles Berthoud
>>152226792

I actually can't think of any bassists who regularly use tapped harmonics! It's a bit strange because it is a beautiful sound, but I guess it's not very easy to pull off... Haha I wasn't intentionally channeling Zelda but I love the music so it could easily have snuck in there 😅

S

What an awesome lesson Charles, you mention that you can play natural harmonics on frets ( 12 , 9 , 7 , 5 , 4 , 3.2 , 2.8 , & 2.4 ) . In your linked video for your natural harmonics etude the tab shows harmonics at ( 1.8 ) at about the 0:45 second mark, should that be ( 2.8 ) instead of ( 1.8 ) as written or is there a harmonic at ( 1.8 ) also? Where are the harmonics above the twelfth fret, is it just a mirror image of the ones you mentioned before and what are the note names for each of these harmonics : for example is there some kind of pattern that we can learn to memorize the names of these harmonics? When you have a chance I would love a deep dive into natural harmonics, thank you so much

Charles Berthoud
>>152429244

Yes there is also a harmonic at 1.8. There are actually technically loads more harmonics even lower than 1.8 but they don't ring very cleanly. There is indeed a pattern for the harmonics - they actually all follow something called the harmonic series. The open string is the "fundamental", fret 12 is the octave, fret 7 is an octave plus a 5th, and it keeps going. As you can tell, there's a lot to be learned when it comes to harmonics so maybe a natural harmonics deep dive is necessary 😊

S

Really appreciate your response Charles & looking forward to you showing us your thoughts on all of these harmonics 🤘

Gideon417

Would you say this academy’s material is easier or harder to learn on a fretless. I have been considering picking up a fretted bass thinking it might ease the pain a little bit. Is this just wishful thinking or will it help a little bit?

Gideon417

Good lord finding that octave artificial harmonic on a fretless is like wow.