Segovia's Old Soft Bass Harmonic Trick

A lesson on a long-forgotten Segovia technique. The guitar used here is FOR SALE. (Very Rare HOPF FVTS 1984) If interested, send a message. For more demos of this guitar, visit my channel.

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• Richard Roberts
• Guitar Lesson Clarinet
• Segovia
• Skype Lessons
• Andy Mckee

[willgordon13]

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

[barngarth]

@willgordon13

Is that English?

[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!

[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.

[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...

[METR0D0ME]

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

[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.

[minusjason]

@InvizionsStudios And that's all he was saying.

[ArasBabyJ]

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

[MasonIFTW]

its called harmonics

[bassfisherman1254]

tht doesnt soumdnlike a clarinet

[buopo]

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

[wolfhound802]

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

[mickmos]

@sminhle you sound like a real fucking douche

[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!