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Guitar Harmonizing - Harmony introduction/explanation
Why play harmonies? - Simply put, this is the easiest way of "fattening" up a basic melody. What's cool is, if you know how to play the melody, all you have to do is move it up or down on the neck, and you'll be playing awesome harmonies in no time! In this lesson I will only cover the harmonies wich I personally find most useful for rock situations. For simplicity, I have divided them up into "horrible sounding" and "strong sounding". The "horrible" ones are b2, minor second, and b5, flat fifth/tritone. The "strong" ones are perfect fourth and perfect fifth. STOP! If you don't understand what this means, don't worry - We will go through exactly where to put the fingers. So you too can understand what a "b2" is, just read on...
