Learn To Play Guitar: Intro To Harmonics Part 4

Let's try B minor. B at the 7th fret of the 1st string. F# at the 7th fret of the 2nd string, D at the 7th fret of the 3rd string and those three together B, D and F# give you B minor, and then another one that occurs naturally is D major. So we have D, F# and A, so we have D here at the 7th fret of the 3rd string, F# here at the 7th fret of the 2nd string and A at the 7th fret of the 4th string. That gives us a D major chord.

When you are trying to play other chords that are G, E minor, B minor, D major, you can also combine fret root notes with this harmonics, and the cool thing about harmonics is that they work essentially like open strings; once you hit them, they stay ringing. So you can go down and play whatever fret root notes you want. You can have quite a big spread on the frets.

So I am doing a C major chord. The notes that comprise C major are G, C, G and E. So I am doing G here on the 3rd string of the 12th fret, doing E on the 1st string 12th fret, and then I am fretting a C since we don't have the C that occurs naturally here with the ones that we have -- the harmonics that we looked at the 5th, the 7th and the 12th fret. I am just fretting C here at the 8th fret of the 6 string. So it's a nice C major chord there.

So let's start with the slide from the 4th fret to the 5th fret on the 2nd string. You can use your third finger, then we open 1st string and so for harmonic what you want to do is just take your finger, the third finger across the 12th fret right on the top of the fret itself, and you are actually pushing the strings down.


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