Harmonics on Bass | Lesson | Thomann
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Julia teaches you how to play natural harmonics on bass and how to use them in a musical context. Have you ever used harmonics in your basslines? If so, in which context did you use them? Let us know in the comments!
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Intro
0:54 What are natural harmonics?
1:23 12th fret: one octave up
1:54 7th fret: the fifth
2:33 5th fret: two octaves up
3:19 4th fret: the third
4:05 How to get a good tone for playing harmonics
4:55 Using harmonics for tuning
5:15 Using harmonics in a musical context
5:27 Playing | Victor Wooten - Amazing Grace
6:04 Playing | Chords with harmonics
6:23 Playing | Bass line with added harmonics
6:46 Have you ever used harmonics in your playing?
6:55 Thanks for watching and please subscribe
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Julia, these videos are really spot on. Accurate info, professionally presented -- and excellent bass playing! Kudos and thanks.
I actually wrote the intro to a tune yesterday using 99% harmonics, its a very fun world and I think im addicted!
Great tutorial...all information is packed up in one lesson...thanks for this one❣️❣️
That blew me away - what an awesome bassist! Thanks Julia...
Great video. The best video about Harmonics, that I have seen until now. I'm learning Portrait of Tracy from Jaco, so this video came out just in the right minute for me. (But I was not able to learn Portrait of Tracy in just one night like mr. Victor Wooten. I am not a bass genius like him. XD) Thank you a lot!!
Julia Hôfer’s videos are excellent.
Well explained Julia, really clear instructions. I think harmonics are great I use them to extend the range of my instrument.
i love how julias bass has its paint fading while maitaining its superb sound as if it was newly purchased.
@Nebvin
4 жыл бұрын
You too can have that aged look from a brand new bass: www.bax-shop.co.uk/electric-bass-guitars/sandberg-california-tt4-masterpiece-aged-roquefort-blue
This why Bass is beautiful, those sweet bell harmonics.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
Great lesson. Thanks!
I have a habit of using them when jamming with friends; the last held chord on a song has me searching the neck for an appropriate harmonic. I usually pick the wrong one!
Much love to you Julia for showing the harmonics,..Thanks a lot❤🎸
I like using harmonics on an intro and sometimes tied together with harmonics in the outro. I think the best usage overall of harmonics, though, is that of sparing use-- similar to tapping or slapping. I think that less frequent use of devices makes them much, much more powerful and memorable when employed.
thanks for another great video and the tips Julia!! i like your tone, i cant make my bass sound like that xD. I can not wait for more videos hehehe
3:19 Science! Hahahaha xD
What a great lesson, I allready used harmonic's in tuning my bass but this was a verry clear explenation, thank you.
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. You are welcome! :-) // Cheers, Julia
Natural harmonics are freedom. Let freedom Ring 🤘🏽
Ear training, playing broadcast channel 'songs' like ABC, NBC and CBS. I've also used them when playing sitcom tv show tunes, again for ear training. Wootens amazing grace floores me too the first time I heard it years and years ago. It was my introduction to him.
I´m from Brazil, played the bassguitar since 1995, and I like your videos very much! Congratulations.
Talk about being "in the groove". Wow! It is palpably obvious when you fall into the groove. Love it. Superb. Great stuff.
Julia you're great. And what a fantastic quality bass this is. Pity they're hard to find where I live (Indonesia).
Love this going to try this now
I tried to use harmonics since i watched this video for the first time. Until now, most basslines i have come up with use the same two or three harmonics but change the root note. It's not much but it's honest work and i love it
Great work 👍
You play very well. Great information.
What a great technique and Tutorial. I love how Victor uses it and also Julia plays it on point! Can you maybe give a few Tips or even make a Video about tapped Harmonics like the ones from Cliff Burton on Anesthesia? Keep on groovin!
Music for my ears!
and by the way, very good starting point for harmonics. und du bist so lieb.....ich mag deinen akzent
Really nice explenation!
I just could watch Julia all day. She fresh, fun, and packed full of knowlege.
Nice waltz!
I first started using them when covering “Just a Girl”
It makes me a little bit sad every time you play that beautiful Sandberg, knowing I'll probably never have something that looks and sounds that good. Great video though, keep up the good work!
I love it! :))
Hey Julia .. Cool lesson .. I knew some of the basics .. but Loved the way you used them . My only unusual experimenting with harmonics was using a combination of a fast repeat delay & a pair of light drumsticks ( & some of the Damping techniques you showed in other lessons . ) It's gr8 to have short concise tips & lessons . Even 'tho I have a long attention span .. ehmm what was I saying ? Lol Yes most people learn better in small " Bite's " I am absolutely new to slapping .. thats next .. Stay safe Bye
You are amazing!
Thanks for the excellent lesson. I have one more tip for making your harmonics sound good: use new strings.
every time you play , you make me smile
Amazing!! Does Julia have a band or had participated on an album? I would love to hear some of her bass lines arrangement Cheers from Mexico
I’ve used harmonics but always accidentally! Now I will try on purpose with proper fretting technique
BASS player here, very informative, and no gear to mute the strings ! Now that's a BASS player ;)
She’s blinding me with science!
@strat0871
4 жыл бұрын
Just knowledge.
Cool lesson Julia. I am a big Rush Fan and I hope you will do a video about your top Geddy Lee Basslines soon :-) One of my favourites is the line in the Song "Force Ten". You may also like it ;-)
@SuperGeorge2112
4 жыл бұрын
She wouldn't be able to play that bass line.
Listen to the Into to Molly Hatchet's Version of Dream I"ll Never See, played that in a band for several years, learned to tune with harmonics and a tuning fork that was our auto tuner :)
Superb thanks so much!!! BobbyO
Hey Julia! love the pineapple! Does one go with you everywhere? I have a hedgehog puppet (we call him Herbie) that my brother put on my guitar stand in 1983 that has never missed a gig. Have been listening to something from my childhood lately, Rocco Prestia from Tower of Power, you might really enjoy it. Stay Groovy Lil Sister! 😎
@Terrible_Peril
4 жыл бұрын
boomer bass meme didn’t she do a video or clip within a video of some Rocco lines? Can’t remember. Julia’s a true bassist, though. She knows our heroes because they’re her heroes as well. 😇
@boomerbassmeme
4 жыл бұрын
@@Terrible_Peril Must have missed that one or forgot about it. I am lucky to remember what I had for breakfast sometimes.
I think you’re a great 👍 Musician. Also, your Teaching technique is great! You teach playing Bass Guitar fun! You keep it simple ( great for beginners ) & you keep it light-hearted, which interns make it enjoyable! We all remember the university days. There were also great Professors that made learning fun! Then there were always horrible Professors that really should have been ANYTHING else other than a Teacher.
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! :) // Cheers, Julia
Brava Julia! You played it almost like Victor...
Great video, I am just now learning the scientific terms for what i have been hearing all my life...I am not being lazy but can you suggest one of your videos that explains what harmonics are? I have been learning the bass for some 20 years now, off and on and I want to know it thoroughly...and scientifically...as you were speaking i remembered the frequency of the open D string is 73.416thousandth Hertz...learning all things this way helps clear up my naturally confused mind...
I use harmonics to test the setting of my bass,if it's not set up right,the harmonics won't ring where it's supposed to. And I find it easier to get them to ring is use my finger nail,put the string right by the fret let the string rest under your nail,that like holds the string so the harmonics ring beautiful
You might make the idea of dividing the string in for example three equal parts more clear by identifying the other harmonic node at the 19 fret and showing that the harmonic is the same. It could be useful to point out the waveform that does not then vibrate over these harmonic nodes ( you can see this!) And notice that because of this phenomenon if you stop the string at the 7th fret and play at the 19th you will be completely unsuccessful because the string cannot move at this point! (The math is cool too! 8ve vibrates 2x faster 7th fret is 3x faster, 5th fret 4x faster etc.) The higher a harmonic you play the more places there are to play it and also the more places the string will not move.)
Amazing Julia Grace. Portray of Julia. Bonjour de France
You cannot trick me, Julia. I know you just made this vid to play Amazing Grace. Lol. I saw your interview with Wooten. Thanks for the explanation.
That bass face started immediately she began playing
Julia is a scientist.
Hi Julia the bass you are playing is amaizing could you please send me a video how to do first movement of harmonic bass thank you
She's really cool (:
ahh i just < 3 u ) thnx for the video
4th fret the third..wich one? The major third? yes of course, and this interval is to found also in the 9th fret. The 5th is not only at the 7th fret, it is present too in the 4th, but not allways ring properly in this position.
Never used them in a melodic line but certainly to help sustain feedback through 4 - 18" folded Sunn cabs and 800 watts / channel. Honestly don't know when 8 & 10" speakers became the vogue.
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Nice video! In order to not confuse the newbies, maybe you could have explained how the string is divided into equal parts, and then show the parts. For example, the octave+fifth harmonic at the 7th fret is also at the 19th. Two octaves is at the 5th fret as well as the 24th(plus you can touch any/all of the nodes of them without killing the note). Bonus round, you can also play in such a way as to have both the open string and one of the harmonics ring out at the same time. 😎
I'm wondering how long it might took to play that well
miss that homemade thomann logo
What about tapped harmonics
Do harmonics sound better on roundwounds or flatwounds
I love your accent..
I can funk/ slap well because I've played drums for 50 years, working on harmonics and listening to the beautiful beauty you get by mixing different bass notes with the harmonics, gorgeous right? It's not a competition eh? Jeff Berlin just told me he won't evaluate my bass video, will you?????😊😊😊
The overtones are slightly different if you play short scale bass, but I think the harmonics are the same.
Have you ever thought on doing a tutorial ? For example amazing grace by the legend Wooten !
Yeah, science!
Hay juliea you really should check out AZYMUTH~RAPID TRANSIT title track Alex Malheiros use of harminics is so funky.
"Science" 😂😂😂 I loved that.
Da werd ich mal ne säge holen, das fretboard krieg ich schon klein, danach brauch ich sicher noch nen smoothie 😅🤸♂️🙋♂️
Do you think the jazz is better than the pbass for playing harmonics?
3:18 Yeah that is string theory science. ;)
What is the colour of your second bass?
Victor Wooten... Das war aber süß ::)
I appreciate that pineapple touch everytime I see.
Noice, Harmonics are noice to play on bass. Other than that, cool:).
Yooooooooolia! Pineapples DO belong on bass amps (and pizza)!
whats the name of the bass ur playing
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, that is a Sandberg California :) // Cheers, Julia
@JimAndcco
3 жыл бұрын
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses thank you
Science!
Tks Julia. Why is the pineapple there? ;)
@williev9267
4 жыл бұрын
Must be a fan of shawn and gus
What are you thinking as you stare at this PICTURE of a pineapple? Is there a reason you prefer to stare at a picture as opposed to a real Pine apple? kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4easKxun9HVg9o.html
science ¬_¬
I pretty much watch this channel just for Julia. lol
I had a mexican p bass. Now I’m seriously thinking of getting a Harley Benton. Will I be disappointed?
"Science" LOL
"Science"....😄
of course I've used harmonics....Red Barchetta
Better get the intonation right doing harmonics 😜
What's with the pineapple Is this a psych following ?
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses
4 жыл бұрын
I just love pineapples! Instead of flowers! ;) // Cheers, Julia
Science 🧐
Why the pineapple?
for the science behond that kzread.info/dash/bejne/mGiBj5ith9fRn6Q.html Walter is the seconde best teacher (after Julia ^^)
my harmonics or your's?
My god she is cute!!!!!!🥰🎩
Get a pinch harmonic from popping the string. Then ill be impressed. ❤