If you are trying this on an electric guitar, distortion is definitely your friend. Distortion will make harmonics pop off the strings pretty much all over the fret board. There are technically harmonics all over the fret board. It's just within acoustic it takes a nice touch and a lot of practice to get some of the ones that don't occur on the twelfth, the fifth and now we will take a look at the seventh fret.
We are just going to focus on those that really pop out naturally, the most on their own. So let's take a look at the ones on the seventh fret. We had B here on the seventh fret I have the E string. E, on the seventh fret of A string. A, on the seventh fret of the D string. We have D on the seventh fret of the G string, F# on the seventh fret of the B string and B again here on the seventh fret of the first string.
So let's a look and combine some of these notes. We have got 12 notes here. Let's combine some of these notes and come up with some chords. The first and most obvious one would be G major. The notes in G Major are G, B and D so we can do it here at the 12th fret of the third string, 12th fret of the second string and then the 12th fret of the fourth string. That gives us a G Major chord.
Let's try an E Minor, a very common chord here. 12th fret of the third string which gives us G, 12th fret of the second string which gives us B and 12th fret of the first string which gives us E. E, G and B those are the notes that make up E Minor.
So let's start with a slide from the fourth fret to the fifth fret of the second string. You could use your third finger. Then the open first string and so for harmonics what you want to do is just take your finger, the third finger across the 12th fret, right on top of the fret itself and you are actually not pushing the strings down.
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