Artificial Harmonics

September 7, 2009

This is the second part of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction“. In the post about Natural Harmonics, I mentioned that a harmonic is basically a sounding of the natural overtones of the string in the OPEN position. That is where we can subject our own modifications to the string and effectively change the position [...]

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Natural Harmonics

September 1, 2009

This is the first section of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction” Natural Harmonics are called ‘natural’ mainly because they utilize the natural nodes of an open string. This means that you can do natural harmonics just by picking and touching the string at certain areas on the string with the fretting hand (usually the [...]

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Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction

August 28, 2009

Guitar Harmonics are cool and can add that sudden zing! to your playing just when people least expect it. Harmonics can be recognized by the sudden jumps in the pitch of a note. However, when you look at the guitarists hand, he/she may be fretting a 7 fret, but yet it sounds like a 19th [...]

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Practicing the Guitar Seated vs Standing

August 23, 2009

The Decision to play the guitar seated or standing will depend on various factors. Firstly, Refer to the pictures. The first is of a flamenco guitar player. That would be the typical stance for a classical guitar player. It is also customary for one to play in that position during performances, etc. The second picture [...]

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The 2 basic picking licks

August 20, 2009

Elegant, short, effective, but certainly not simple. These two licks will certainly help you in general playing if you’ve never tried them before. These are in my opinion the basic two licks introduced by Paul Gilbert that will really help anyone make progress. So let’s get straight to them. The first one is mentioned in [...]

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