Segovia's Old Soft Bass Harmonic Trick

[mcouzijn]

For some people, a car is just a car. Anything with four wheels, a noisy motor and a smelly rear is a car. They see or hear no difference between a new Aston Martin and an old Datsun.

The same is with guitars and their sounds. For some people, any wooden cabinet with a long wooden stick with wires and a hole in the centre is just a guitar. They don't hear, let alone appreciate, the guitar idiom and scope of sounds. They can't hear your trumpets because... they don't hear trumpets.

Pity them.

[ArasBabyJ]

33-33 I can dicide if its good or bad :o

[MasonIFTW]

its called harmonics

[bassfisherman1254]

tht doesnt soumdnlike a clarinet

[wolfhound802]

dude if i had my clarinet and i was playing next to him i would take a dump on his range.

[bucktheusa]

I've heard of it referred to as a portable piano...

You'd have to be pretty damn close to hear much variety, but I get you.

Don't forget the pinch harmonics 12 frets up for a marimba, xylophone and bells.

Also palm muted chords high up sound like plucked violins.

I get great cello and violin sounds using the volume knob on an electric too!

[skinsvideos21]

For the people who all think it all sounds the same, you gotta try it yourselves, it is quite amazing actually that if you pluck in different parts, the timbre and texture of your notes can change considerably. I remember that sometimes when Paco De Lucia is soloing, he picks at that part right near the bridge where the strings end, and the sound is a lot more plucky, trebly and aggressive, whereas over the frets it indeed does sound like a harp.

[pauleywannacracker]

Incredible! I had no idea.

[neatfreeek]

sounds like a classical guitar sir

[puristthunder]

it sounds like a guitar to me

[cbappa1]

@Topbottle360 I hope i brightened your day

Asshole jkjk

[willgordon13]

Hello barn mabey you should try playing the skinflute instead of guitar you prolly batter at it ;D

[barngarth]

@willgordon13

Is that English?

[buopo]

@barngarth i hope you know, he's telling you to suck a dick XD

[vrassoc]

Just ignore the idiots and keep up your interesting tips, please. Thanks for taking the time to share your discoveries. How do we learn, if not from each other? 

[martinavizcomm]

WOW Dude, it sounds just like a GUITAR too!!! LOL!!!

[barngarth]

I made this video over a year ago simply to show the different timbres that Segovia exploited. Some people 'got it', but I have always been surprised how many people took the title of this video literally! It was just meant to be ...you know...slightly ironic...tongue in cheek. Of course, my guitar doesn't sound exactly like a clarinet! If anyone wants to sound literally like a carinet or flute etc...go MIDI lol!

[demejiuk]

@barngarth i caught that vid segovia breaks it down amazingly...they removed the vid from youtube so i cant post a link, but the original lesson by Segovia would wow any serious guitarist.NIce of you to try to explain this to people.

[bwv998PFA]

@barngarth Yes...yeas it's a shame...

I just saw P. Romero's mastercalss at GFA in Austin a couple of weeks ago You know what he said both to the perfomers at the class and at his concert honoring his father the night before where about 2000 were in attendance? He said making music was about having love in our hearts!

[jelqaholic]

Okay, maybe this one's not 100% spot on, but in another video he made a tuba sound exactly like a ukulele.

[sminhle]

I play the guitar and what I can tell from your vid is (no offence):

Your appergio does sound like a harp, except that there are far fewer notes.

Your bass lines is just bass lines, it lacks enough duration and depth to be cello.

The strings area near the bridge sound too weak to imitate a powerful trumpet.

And if you suppose the armonics (12 frets down from your left hand fingers) or just plucking(as you do in the vid), it is not a clarinet at all.

But good try ;)

[barngarth]

You are very literal, I was refering to Segovia's use of tembre.

[bwv998PFA]

@sminhle c@sminhle Here's someone (barngath) doing something positive, trying to teach the "kids" a little somthing about tone colour, etc., and here's all these comments I don't understand. I exempt myself, on this occasion, to give YOU, sminhle, and others a bit of advice my mother gave me: "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it."

[mickmos]

@sminhle you sound like a real fucking douche

[darkdragongirl6]

Um I'm a clarinet player don't understand how that sounds like it but I admire your harmonic thinking!

[sxcVince]

sort of a tapped harmonic, your allowing all the harmonics of the note to play, learn what a harmonic actually is and your lessons on tone will become alot more informative :)

[vacuumlover1]

bass clarinet!

[diazconias]

ok, you have musical imagination I give you that

[SamZucchini]

i have a clairenet? WOOHOO

[12345l6789]

cunt

[NachoLibre621]

your accent just made my day.

[charliesmakinme]

well different tones rather then different instruments,,,, but i admire your thinking :D

[Epim3theus]

oh yeah I figured that out a while ago and i was like huh, neat... it does kind of sound like clarinet

[NicholasGreen91]

Yeah same here.

Its subtractive-synthesis...

you're removing the next-octave harmonic by playing it 12 frets above.

[featherinthewind123]

are you a nutter ?

[XanderPrime]

dude do you make videos for those who have the hearing of a bat? cause i had to turn my speakers right up

[renzolikescheez]

um harmonics?

[InvizionsStudios]

woopedy doo, fingering, huzzah you found a funny...anyways, you do have a range of TONES on a guitar, I would not say that you have different INSTRUMENTS on your guitar, seeing as it's an instrument with its own sound.

[barngarth]

Mmmm I simply detect a lack of irony...

[himrasmus101]

@barngarth Dude thats freaking awesome the haters are just wannabe musicians....you see them a lot on youtube because they want to be something but...sadly....they cannot compete. Anyway I play clarinet and that really sounds like my lower notes...Awesome.

[minusjason]

@InvizionsStudios And that's all he was saying.

[happboy1]

you know last time i checked clarinets didnt sound like a guitar

[METR0D0ME]

Your whole orchestra sounds a lot like a guitar to me...

[BFFsAutumnK8]

that does sound kind of like a clarinet. Haha I play it

[TheT1997]

you have hairy arms

[EmamShemr747]

finger FINGER finger

[Bennyboy291]

haha when u said the notes u are fingering i couldnt stop laughing

[Bamshu]

Fingering minors. LMAOLOLOLOLOL!

[CamiLoveMarchingBand]

that's cool.

[adestefano892]

thats pretty kool

[Ichigo522687]

does this also work on a acoustic guitar?

[iamnotaleapord]

that is an acoustic.

[DJLilGansta]

its a classical guitar

[keepmusicanart]

classical guitars are acoustic. i think he means steel string acoustic guitar. and yes this sound will work on any guitar and probably get some effect on any string instrument by playing an octave up from the note. this is not unique to classical guitars. it is unique to strings.

[vacuumlover1]

reminds me of a bass clarinet :D

[ratemyshi92]

interesting stuff thanks man

[corrine6767]

this video reminds me of my videos!!1 O