Last lesson, it was all about how to use your left hand to start playing your bass harmonics and just get the sound out.
Now that you’re getting a bass harmonics sound out, it’s time to shape it and mold it into a beautiful, singing, shimmering sound that really sings!
In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- The biggest factor in whether your harmonics sound is bright and clear, or lifeless and dull
- The simple trick you can use to instantly get more clarity and life out of your bass harmonics
- How to set the EQ on your amp to squeeze the most out of your harmonics
- What you can do to make sure your harmonics sing every time – guaranteed. Even if you’re playing on a cheap, junky bass
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Notice how each of the elements of your sound stack on top of each other? You could just try one of them, or even two. But the real magic happens when you combine all of them together – it makes such a difference.
Using none of these strategies for a great harmonics sound would be having a $3 burger from the drive-thru, but using all of them would be more like having a 5-star meal at a fancy restaurant.
They both do a similar job, but they’re not in the same league at all!
The sound you create and pull out of your bass is going to be a huge factor when you start using these harmonics to actually make music – whether that’s just for yourself at home, playing gigs with your band, in your church group or even playing entire solo gigs on bass.
If you like the idea of using harmonics to do all of this and do it with a great sound, then be sure to download The Ultimate Guide To Bass Harmonics. It’s a ton of fun and it will get you playing harmonics all over your bass.
It’s 100% free and you’ll learn the methods that amazing players like Victor Wooten and Jaco Pastorius use to create mind-blowing solo bass pieces using harmonics.
Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!
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