vibrato with open strings...using sympathy.

redbeardred · Post by **redbeardred** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:01 am

in Barry Green's 'fundamentals of double bass playing' he say's you can make an open string vibrato by using the same note or it's octave on another string...this begs the question, if you're stopping the note on a diffrent string anyways then why not just play the stopped note?

could the use of sympathtic resonance add vibrato to harmonics?

i haven't had a chance to test any of this yet this yet, all my basses are at church while i recover from a broken rib (which happened right before out christmas shows that i did not miss). it's the only way to force my self to 'not practice'.

if anybody wants to try it out and let me know if it works that would be cool. i've had a lot of success with double stopped harmonics where sympathy brings out nodes that normally don't do much.

redbeardred · Post by **redbeardred** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:41 am

ok, i'm healed up enough to try this out and i don't think it works...

while i was taking time off to heal i got the frets out of the acostic, mixxed whiteout with epoxy to fill in the fret's holes and get fret lines, then i did another coat of just epoxy over the whole board. turned out real good.