Dividing the bass string into 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 parts

The process of dividing the bass string could continue. Here is a video of me playing the harmonic series. Each time the string is divided into more parts, and shorter parts. The shorter the part that is ringing, the more difficult it is to get a harmonic to sound. In fact you will notice that on the last one I play (dividing the string into 10 parts) doesn't have all that strong of a sound.

Here are the frets that I am playing to get this harmonic series. If your see decimals (3.2, 2.7, etc.) this is just an approximation of where you should put your finger. The higher harmonics do not fall right over the fret bars.

I could play other frets to get some of these same harmonics to ring. This is something that we will be taking a look at next. But here you can easily visualize the parts getting shorter as you move your hand towards the nut.

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