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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Harmonics are absolutely beautiful, but wrapping your head around them and using them in your playing can cause some hiccups and even confusion. |
0:08.8 | Be confused, no more. |
0:10.5 | On today's show, I'll be giving you a grand tour of harmonics so you can use them in your playing effortlessly. |
0:15.7 | And seriously, this is one of those things that is truly fun and actually easy, even though it does involve some math. |
0:24.2 | You'll see what I mean. |
0:25.9 | Hey, TAC family, welcome to episode 239 of the Acoustic Tuesday show. |
0:30.9 | This show is designed to inject your guitar journey with a weekly dose of fun, focus, progress, and inspiration. |
0:36.9 | A little bit later on today's show, you'll be hearing from an Acoustic Tuesday viewer |
0:40.3 | who recently celebrated a new guitar day, and with that celebration comes a very valid, |
0:46.3 | a seriously valid reason on why you need another guitar. |
0:50.3 | I'm not even joking. You're also going to see what the TAC family is working on today. It's a beautiful guitar lick in the key of C major that involves a harmonized passage. And of course your weekly dose of acoustic news awaits, which includes an unlikely duo, a magical musical moment in about the least magical place in the world and much much more. But first let's go |
1:12.2 | ahead and tune up your harmonic technique. I want to share with you five |
1:16.8 | steps to harmonic bliss, five steps to tune up your harmonic technique. Step |
1:21.6 | number one is defining what a harmonic is. Now this involves physics. I am not a |
1:27.3 | physics professor. You are not in school right now, so let's keep this fun. Okay, so a harmonic occurs on a node. On any string that vibrates in an elliptical pattern, there are nodes where the string actually doesn't move. That's where we can activate harmonics. Pretty cool stuff. That brings us to step |
1:46.0 | number two, identifying the places where harmonics occur naturally on a string. And this is |
1:52.1 | actually pretty easy to remember. They occur at the fifth fret, the seventh fret, and the |
1:56.7 | 12th fret. Now, there are other positions. However, the fifth, seventh, and 12th fret are the |
2:02.5 | easiest to activate, the easiest to hear, the easiest to really play at a good volume so they can |
2:09.9 | actually be effective in your playing. And this brings me to step number three, and that is the |
2:15.6 | technique. Okay, so let's take these three naturally occurring |
2:18.7 | harmonic positions, and I'm going to show you how to activate the harmonic. We're actually going to |
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