Bass Harmonics – All Of Your Notes

We’ve talked about the technique for pulling out your bass harmonics, you’ve learned how to get a great sound from your bass harmonics…

Now it’s time to look at the actual notes that you can get out of all of your harmonics.

Your harmonics and your fretted notes aren’t always the same. In fact, there are only 3 places where the harmonic and the fretted note produce the same note in the same register.

On the other hand, there are more than 10 bass harmonics that produce a different note that the fretted note – and that’s on every string. In total , there are more than 60 harmonics you can play on a standard 4-string bass.

It’s even more on a 5 or 6-string.

Now if you don’t actually know the notes that each of your bass harmonics makes, it’s going to make it very hard to do things like build chords, make melodies or create solo pieces.

But if you know the formulas for each of your strings (which doesn’t change by the way), it becomes very easy to create some truly beautiful music.

In this lesson, you’ll learn:

• The three kinds of harmonics you’ll find on your bass – there are 2 that are fairly easy to think of, and one that can bend and twist your mind a bit
• Where all of your harmonics are on your bass and how to get each of your harmonics to really sing
• The actual notes that your harmonics produce

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Like I said in the lesson, some of the harmonics will be trickier to pull out of your bass than others.

And not only that, but the way that the harmonic series works, some of the harmonics will actually be out of tune. Not so much that you can’t use them, but you’ll probably be able to tell they’re not quite in tune.

Remember – the relationship between the harmonics and the open strings is the same on every string.

For example, the 7th fret harmonic will always give you an octave and 5th above your open string – no matter what’s it’s tuned to. It’s the same for all of your strings.

This means you can easily figure out your harmonics no matter the string.

Of course, if you want a comprehensive chart that lays all of your harmonics out for you, whether you play a 4, 5 or 6-string bass, make sure to download my Ultimate Guide To Bass Harmonics. You’ll get the PDF guide plus 4 bonus video lessons.

You’ll also learn how to play absolutely any note as a harmonic. You might have realized from the video, the notes that each strings makes are limited. You can get around this though by using the artificial harmonic technique that you’ll find in the Ultimate Guide.

By the end of the guide and going through the bonus lessons, you’ll have a whole lot of new music you can make and hopefully it’ll spark your creativity as well.

To get it, just put your name and email in the box below and I’ll be sure to send it straight to your email address.

Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!

Cheers,