Curiosity: Portrait of Tracy

[Torch7]

Sitting at Work, looking at some Youtube videos... and wondering.  How is the High Pitched, bell like sound achieved in
the Portrait of Tracy?

[thomas1168]

Harmonics

Some are what I call a False Harmonic Forced TONE

[Bullitt]

Place your finger lightly over any string (don't push down at all) at the 5th fret and gently pluck.  As previously mentioned, these are harmonics and will work at the 5th, 12th, 7th, and a few other positons.  Those that I mentioned are usually the easiest (for me at least).


God Bless,
-J

[Torch7]

Thanks fellas.

[MikeGee]

17th and 19th frets also

[Torch7]

I found this on Bassentials.com pretty nice information on this site.

http://www.bassentials.com/hrmncs.html

[Bullitt]

great site, thanks!


God Bless,
-J

[cardfandan]

Place your finger lightly over any string (don't push down at all) at the 5th fret and gently pluck.  As previously mentioned, these are harmonics and will work at the 5th, 12th, 7th, and a few other positons.  Those that I mentioned are usually the easiest (for me at least).


God Bless,
-J

The harmonics at 5, 7, and 12 are called natural harmonics and they can be used to tune the bass (when you're in a pinch). The 12th fret harmonic is used to adjust the bass' intonation.

There are other harmonics called pinch harmonics and tap harmonics too! Victor Wooten and Michael Manring are two examples of the many jazz and fusion bassists that use harmonics extensively.

[Willie L. Terry Jr]

I met Micheal Manring in March...he's amazing!  Remember the name Jeff Schmidtz...friend of mines.  He's awesome too.

T.J.