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Why Is Just Intonation Impractical?
I've read about the debate of "just intonation" vs 12-tone equal temperament. And nowhere it was clearly stated why just intonation is impractical. Here are my assumptions. Please let me know if I am ...
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How To Derive Note Frequencies From The Harmonic Series? [closed]
The harmonic series give us the (natural or just) frequencies of the notes in an octave. To achieve that we need to transpose the higher-order harmonics to the same octave as the fundamental tone. But ...
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How do harmonics work?
The guitar has harmonic notes at some places. I can play it, but I don't understand the logical reason why/how this is can played. Can you tell me how exactly this works?
What other musical ...
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Music Theory: Frequencies related to playing a note on guitar
I am studying the physics related to playing guitar. I need to understand the relationship between the fundamental frequency of a guitar string and its harmonics.
For e.g., the top string has the ...
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Where is a natural harmonic for the note C on guitar?
Today I found I really wanted a C harmonic to end a tune nicely.
So we have E, B, G, D, A notes at 12th/5th fret.
Then we get G#, C#, F#, B, D# at 4th/10th fret (I just remember them as the major ...
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WHY do harmonics happen?
The answers to the question 'How do harmonics work?' were most interesting.
OK, that's the HOW it happens. But WHY does it happen ? What is the physics here ? Why doesn't a guitar string vibrate ...
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Is it possible to create the illusion of a sub-harmonic?
The way I understand it, a normal plucked tone consists of a great many overtones in addition to the base tone. A pinched harmonic, however, shifts the base tone higher into the overtone series by ...
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Playing Andy Timmons' Electric Gypsy on Electric Guitar
I've seen a few videos of Andy Timmons playing that and others playing it as well and they utilize some tapping harmonics of some sort which I cannot replicate.
Is that tapping harmonics? How is it ...
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How to do “metal” harmonics (pinch etc)
I've always struggled with this, tried watching Youtube tutorials, but can't get it to work.
Should you hold the pick in any particular way? I've always held my picks with three fingers, for ...
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What is a harmonic note and how do you play it?
While I was browsing here I came across an interesting question so I decided to see what the answer was and well, I had some difficulties understanding it. I'll quote a short part of the answer.
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Playing Tricky Harmonics
A piece I'm working on learning requires some of the more difficult harmonics (namely, fourth- and third-fret harmonics). Are there any tricks for playing these tricky harmonics?
For example, I know ...
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What are the actual notes of each natural harmonic?
So I know that if you play a natural harmonic at the 12th fret, this is just the same note as fretting the 12th is. Also, when I play my electric guitar and listen to lots of metal music in ...
