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12-10-2012, 07:14 PM
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How to do Harmonics on Silent Night?
I love Tonedr and his rendition of Silent Night that he posted on the forum. The only thing I can't seem to get is the harmonics at the end of the song. I am new to this and not sure how to do this. Here is the video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAoxG3EqUyA Can someone post a video how this is done? It starts at bar 60 to the end. It is the last 5 bars of the song. I would be grateful to our forum members if someone could show me as I would love to learn how to play this for the holidays. Thanks! 
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12-10-2012, 07:18 PM
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Dale (tonedr) is a regular here in the forum. Why not private message him and ask? He's a really nice guy...
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12-10-2012, 10:24 PM
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Here is a good video of how to do harmonics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&h...&v=Iz_g68NvGeU
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12-12-2012, 05:02 AM
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In case the OP hasn't asked tonedr (or even if he has), here's those ending chords.
All frets are counted from the nut, not the capo, which is on fret 2; so "2" means an open string, and <14> is the octave harmonic of that string. The other harmonics are artificial ones, octaves of fretted notes (12 frets up). So, eg, "<7>" means fretted at 7, harmonic node over fret 19. Plain numbers are fretted notes. Code:
Bm11 |---------------------7--9-----9--7---------------- |---------------7----------------------7--------7-- |---------7----------------<7>---------------7----- |-6/7-------------<7>--------------<7>------------- |-----------<7>--------------------------<7>------- |-----<7>------------------------------------------ . E9(13) |-------------------7--9-----9--7------------------ |-------------7------------------------7--------7-- |-------7----------------<7>-----------------7----- |-6-------------<6>---------------<6>-------------- |---------<7>----------------------------<7>------- |---<7>-------------------------------------------- . A(add9) |-----------------------5----------<5>---- |--------------------5----------<5>------- |<14>-------2-----6----------<6>---------- |--------------9----------<9>------------- |--------7-------------------------------- |-----5----------------------------------- (Obviously the idea is to allow each note to ring as long as possible, so you need to hold the barre, or partial barre, throughout.) NB: he doesn't get the 7th fret artificial harmonic on 5th string to work each time. A couple of times you hear the main note (low E); I'm not sure if that's intentional, but I'm assuming not, as it breaks the pattern. (He also fluffs the high 9th fret C# once. Hey, no criticism intended  )The last chord is a tricky stretch (IMO), but OK with a bit of practice. Index plays 6th only to begin with, to leave 3rd string open, then goes into a full barre after the 9th fret note. 7th fret is played with ring; middle goes to 6th on string 3. You can of course play this without a capo (in G), but you'd need to subtract 2 from all the tab figures. And that A(add9) - or rather G(add9) - would be a bigger stretch... BTW, that Tommy Emmanuel video is very good at showing the "artificial" harmonic technique, and he's quite right that there's nothing "artificial" or "false" about them: they're the same as "natural" harmonics, as sounds and notes; just the technique is different. The word "artificial" refers to the fact one has to "construct" them in a more complex way, with the picking hand alone. Last edited by JonPR; 12-12-2012 at 05:18 AM.
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