Discover Harmonics on the Guitar

Perhaps more than any other sound, harmonics reveal the beauty of the guitar. 'Discover Harmonics on the Guitar for Beginners' explores how to sound a variety of harmonics including natural harmonics, artificial/harp harmonics and pinch harmonics using a range of fingering hand, strumming hand and picking techniques.

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Jeff Gunn

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acoustic, fingerstyle

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About this course

Perhaps more than any other sound, harmonics reveal the beauty of the guitar. 'Discover Harmonics on the Guitar for Beginners' explores how to sound a variety of harmonics including natural harmonics, artificial/harp harmonics and pinch harmonics using a range of fingering hand, strumming hand and picking techniques.

What you'll learn

Navigate between different harmonic locations while changing chords
Combine artificial harmonics with regular notes in the same phrase
Use both upstrokes and downstrokes to produce artificial harmonics
Coordinate thumb picking with harmonic production
Recognize the different tonal personalities of harmonics at different fret distances

Release date: 05/08/2020 • 6h 09m runtime

late beginner acoustic guitar scales theory

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Sample lessons

Sounding Natural Harmonics in Other Locations

Lesson

Creating Artificial Harmonics - 12 Fret Distance (Chords)

Practice Session

Sounding Artificial Harmonics - 5 Fret Distance (Single Notes)

Lesson

Creating Artificial Harmonics while Switching Locations - 5 Fret Distance

Lesson

Sounding Natural Harmonics in Other Locations

Lesson

Creating Artificial Harmonics - 12 Fret Distance (Chords)

Practice Session

Sounding Artificial Harmonics - 5 Fret Distance (Single Notes)

Lesson

Creating Artificial Harmonics while Switching Locations - 5 Fret Distance

Lesson

What's included

49 lessons • 24 charts • 23 Jam Tracks

Discover Harmonics on Guitar for Beginners Introduction

Perhaps more than any other sound, harmonics reveal the beauty of the guitar. Jeff will discuss the course objectives in this introduction as well as discussing pre-requisites needed to achieve success.

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 12th Fret

Let's start with the basics of harmonics! The easiest and most common location to sound natural harmonics is at the 12th fret. Jeff shares a few exercises with us to get this technique down!

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 12th Fret

Let's start with the basics of harmonics! The easiest and most common location to sound natural harmonics is at the 12th fret. Jeff shares a few exercises with us to get this technique down!

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 7th Fret

The second easiest and most common location is at the 7th fret. Let's do a similar set of exercises for this location so we can practice how to get that great harmonic sound!

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 7th Fret

The second easiest and most common location is at the 7th fret. Let's do a similar set of exercises for this location so we can practice how to get that great harmonic sound!

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 5th Fret

The 5th fret harmonic location is simply an octave above the 12th fret location. It is however a little tricker to sound. Let Jeff show you some tips and tricks for getting a nice clean sound at this location.

Sounding Natural Harmonics at the 5th Fret

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brosblues

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03/19/24

Just What I Needed!

I've been working on the early rock classic "Apache" which ends with an artificial ("harp") harmonic fadeout. This course helped me figure out how to play it; so, thanks to Jeff Gunn for a great course!