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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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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 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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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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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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