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The way strings resonate means the tone you hear contains the fundamental tone and a number of higher harmonics of that tone. Depending on where (and how) you
by seanhunter 2y ago
The way strings resonate means the tone you hear contains the fundamental tone and a number of higher harmonics of that tone. Depending on where (and how) you play the string you can emphasise the harmonics more or the fundamental tone more.
Here for example is a piece made up largely of the harmonics (Portrait of Tracy Jaco Pastorius) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk That's an electric bass and the bell-like sounds are harmonics. Basically he's just lightly touching the string in specific places to suppress the fundamental tone so you just hear the harmonics.
Whereas here (Stir it up - Bob Marley and the Wailers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwL3S3Gtzs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwL3S3Gtzs when the bass comes in, the player is holding his hand near the bridge (back of the strings) with the side of the palm resting on the strings to suppress all the harmonics so you only get the fundamental tone and it has this sort of muffled quality (because a lot of the brightness comes from harmonics).
- dmix 2y agoI recently learned to grasp harmonics from learning how saturation works, this provides a good visualization using a sine wave: https://youtu.be/NO2OZ3UTy2k?si=2gS4vETZKiYli4DY&t=183 https://youtu.be/NO2OZ3UTy2k?si=2gS4vETZKiYli4DY&t=183
- itishappy 2y agoDan Worrall's channel is incredible for these types of sound engineering topics. https://www.youtube.com/@DanWorrall https://www.youtube.com/@DanWorrall
- tetha 2y ago> the player is holding his hand near the bridge (back of the strings) with the side of the palm resting on the strings to suppress all the harmonics so you only get the fundamental tone and it has this sort of muffled quality (because a lot of the brightness comes from harmonics). Palm muting is one big technique to the more aggressive and chunkier metal sounds[1]. Even if you take out the music theory - or blatant disregard for - except kinda not, it's complicated, the different way you can create sounds with an electric guitar[2] in weird ways is quite amazing. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg4tKoiGoyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg4tKoiGoyM 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ax35i6aIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ax35i6aIY
- sampo 2y agoThis channel has lots of Youtube shorts about basic ideas in Black Metal guitar: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c16tL6rdh7g https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c16tL6rdh7g