A harmonic is a “bell like” tone that is produced by lightly touching a string of the guitar over some specific fret bars. What we are going to be talking about in this lesson is natural harmonics. These harmonics are produced from the open strings of the guitar only. There are other techniques for playing harmonics (artificial harmonics, touch harmonics, tap harmonics, pinch harmonics) but they will be the subjects of another lessons.

First we are going to take a look at how to play harmonics. For the moment just think of harmonics as notes on the guitar that have a little different tone that normal notes. See the video below on Natural Harmonics.

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