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Summary: Understand harmonics to recognize related notes and tones when playing bass guitar; learn how from a professional bass player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Harmonics Tips for Bass Guitar

CASEY CORMIER: The 5th harmonic of the E string is the equivalent of open E put two octaves up. Same thing, okay? And the 7th fret of A is the same note, the 7th fret harmonic anyway. So we hear vibrations, watch. You hear that? We can go to this A now if we know E's right and turn it until the vibration stop. You can do the same thing from the A to the D, and then the D to the G, this is harder to hear. Then we can check by playing 7th 4 octaves of each string, using that 5th fret. Octave thing. Now, if there are big differences in what we're doing here, like if we play the 5th fret of the A string, and lands on anything like the D string but the harmonics sound exactly the same, that means an intonation problem and we probably want to take out guitar in, to have it looked at, the neck angle for intonation. So this is an important thing to tackle every once in a while and a good reliable way of tuning as well.

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