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Apoligies for the delay in tutorials.

Here is the 5th installment of my harmonic tutorial series.

This video explains the basics of tapping harmonics with the plucking hand. The advantages of this technique are that only one hand is needed to play the harmonic. It also creates a more “dynamic” timbre.

Hope this tutorial is useful.

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A quick lick recorded acoustic with my laptop crappy mic:-)
Im playing my old cheap Maison electro acoustic bass

A lick/run with a lot of slides only using notes from the E minor dorian scale.
A minor version of yesterday’s Major lick
I also show a E minor 7 voicing with harmonics -  from bottom up it is
E (root) – open E string
D  (minor seventh) – 5 fret D string
G  (minor third) – 5 fret G string

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First an Emaj9 voicing i shamelessly stole from a Bobby Vega youtube video, followed by a B major pentatonic lick (fits EMaj7) – The B Major pentatonic scale consists of the notes B C# D# F# G# which translates to the 5th, 6th, Maj7th, 9th and 3rd step in the E major scale, a nice jazzy/lyric note selection. So when playing over any Major7 chord (EMaj7 in this example), try and play a major pentatonic scale starting on the 5th step (B major pentatonic scale in this example). Lastly im trying to play the chord with “false” harmonics, by using my left hand thumb to lightly touch the string an octave above the last fretted notes and pich the harmonic with a finger (phew, thats hard to put in words, better just look how its done)

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I now give online “One on one” lessons: http://www.ashburymusichall.com/offerings/funk-rock-bass-marlowedk

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Want the transcription + TAB for this bass lick?