Crystal Harmonics for Guitar
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................................3
Natural Harmonics....................................................................................................................................................3
Pitches of Natural Harmonics.............................................................................................................................4
How to Play Natural Harmonics.........................................................................................................................5
Left Hand Pressure.............................................................................................................................................6
Right Hand Plucking..........................................................................................................................................7
What Stroke to Use.............................................................................................................................................7
Artificial Harmonics..................................................................................................................................................8
How to Play Artificial Harmonics......................................................................................................................8
Adding the Left Hand.........................................................................................................................................9
Tips for Clarity...................................................................................................................................................9
Left Hand in Artificial Harmonics....................................................................................................................10
Multiple Notes with Artificial Harmonics........................................................................................................11
General Tips......................................................................................................................................................11
Harmonic Notation..................................................................................................................................................11
Reading Harmonics..........................................................................................................................................11
Notating the Pitch of the Fretted Note..............................................................................................................12
Notating String and Fret Only..........................................................................................................................13
Arabic Numeral Indications..............................................................................................................................13
Roman Numeral Indications.............................................................................................................................14
Notating the Pitch of the Sounding Harmonic..................................................................................................14
Artificial Harmonics.........................................................................................................................................17
Examples in Context.........................................................................................................................................17
Tuning with Harmonics..........................................................................................................................................21