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I just wish you included the slow intro

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watch on 144p and see

One of my favorite things I've heard from Vic was "A 'wrong' note is only a half step away from a 'right' note" in the context of not worrying about playing wrong notes just use those as chromatic/passing tones to add some color and flow.

Agreed. There are virtuosos that can explain complex techniques very well and are also WILLING to share how they practice and aren't ashamed to admit that they also struggle with ideas and concepts too. JoJo Mayer is one great example of this. His lectures and lessons are hypnotic to watch just like his drumming. Victor is a really good public speaker.

Victor Wooten is a master at this

You should listen to more Bass then ;)

@@bioni76 I play bass 🤣 but I'll never say no to listening to more music!!

💯 His concerts are full of positivity, love and joy. Such a huge talent only eclipsed by his gracious humility.

Víctor Wooten does not obey the laws of physics. The laws of physics obey Victor Wooten.

no, THE BEST Bassist alive

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​@@JeanV1986bad means good ;)

The location of harmonics is based on fractions of the total strings length (halfway, a quarter, and eight, etc.), that's why you can play harmonics off the fingerboard anywhere on the length of the string. For the most part the harmonics do align well with where the frets are placed but some of the harmonics naturally exist elsewhere. The harmonic at "3.2" naturally exists in between the third and fourth fret, approximately a little past the third fret (where a 3.2 fret would hypothetically exist) and not right no top of the third fret, so that's why it's notated as 3.2 and not 3.

Play the harmonic, then press down, then slide! (I asked him that same question in 2009)

I guess he catches the vibration of the string at the right spot fast enough for it to ring a different harmonic

As the people said above you play the harmonic then immediately press down and slide if you have a fretless instrument around its allot easier to practice and get the hang of.

@@SuperMusicStudios But the note goes up, as he slides up. But everyone knows with harmonics is higher than .

@@Yakushii I think the idea is that when you play the harmonic on 5, and then press on 5, you can capture the frequency but it can be seen as an harmonic of this new string length. Instead of corresponding to oscillations repeating every fourth of the total string length, now the same oscillation length is a third of the remaining string length (obtain it by pressing on 5 and playing harmonic 12, it's the same frequency as harmonic 5 alone). So when you slide to 7, the frequency moves up accordingly and still corresponds to a third of the remaining length (like pressing 7 and harmonics on 14) although you have to avoid making the fundamental ring, no idea how. But the point is that the new frequency does not correspond to what you'd obtain by playing harmonic 7 alone because "a third of the remaining length" isn't the same length as "a third of the total string length" at all. To be precise, that note isn't even an harmonic of the total string length because you can't fit its oscillation length an integer number of times to fill the total length. If you want it instead, you can press 2 and play the harmonic on 7 (then it's the same frequency but now corresponds to a fourth of the remaining length).