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Artificial Harmonics

by Tan Yew Wei on 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

by Tan Yew Wei on 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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A Discussion on Picking – Holding the Pick

by Tan Yew Wei on July 18, 2009

In this post, I discuss a few methods on how to hold the pick and some examples of picking itself. Let’s get straight to it. This First picture Illustrates basically the way in which I hold the pick right now. I hold the pick between the flat side of my index finger and my thumb. [...]

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