Re: 'artificial' harmonics

[murkie <murkie@panther.middlebury.edu>]

At 04:13 PM 4/10/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Hey there, Tony,
>
>    Just to reiterate what Steve was saying, is to "fret" a note, say an 
>"A" 
>(second fret of the G - string, not hers, play on your own bass!) and 
>then 
>use either your first finger or middle finger to be placed either 7, 9 or 
>12 
>frets up the neck on the same string and use your thumb to pluck the
string.  

or you can do like Jaco and use your igh thumb to "fret" the harmonic and
your index finger to pluck the note.  with a little practice, it gets
pretty easy.

m

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