Natural Harmonics in a Solo

Rock Other Lesson, by Muris Varajic
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Muris Varajic
SOLO LESSON. Natural Harmonics can be used in a solo to gain better sustain for certain notes,plus you can play some very high notes lower on the neck. Here are some practical examples.
Tags : Natural Harmonics, Solo, Em Scale

Hello GMCers!!

We are all pretty much aware of what natural harmonics are
and how to produce them but lets try to throw them
in a solo as a substitution for real notes.
Natural harmonics are also very cool if you are looking
for better sustain cause most likely they gonna ring
just as open string, at least some of them.

Here we are gonna play harmonics on 5th, 7th and 12th fret
with one extra harmonic on 19th fret which produces
the same note/octave as the one on 7th fret.
So first off all lets see what kind of notes and octaves
we get on each of these frets.
12th fret is easier since we get the same note and octave
as we would get if we just fretted.
7th fret gives us same notes as fretted on 7th fret
but one octave higher so it sounds like fretted 19th fret.
And 5th fret is an exception here, it does not produce
the note nor octave like if we just fretted
but instead we get sound just like fretted 24th fret
or 12th harmonics but one octave higher.

Key is Em cause all these harmonics fit just nicely
into Em or Gm key, however you can use them in few more
keys, specially if you add harmonics on 4th and 9th fret
per example to get more notes with sharps/flats
but we'll leave that aside for now.
Tempo is 100bmp and I used Guitar Rig 3 for my sound,
let me know if you would like this preset/bank
and I would post it for you.

Happy practicing! :)

Muris Varajic

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