Quick Picks: How to Shred Russet Potatoes
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

How to Tune to Open G String: Guitar Harmonics

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: How to Play Guitar Harmonics

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

Summary: Learn how to tune open G string to play harmonics on electric guitar in this free guitar lesson video from our expert music instructor and rock and roll professional.

Views: 1,266 | Tags: technique, guitar, solo, flash, guitarlessons, van, halen, harmonics, guitarist, guitar techniques

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert

Casey Cormier Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for ten years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York Cit... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

How to Tune to Open G String: Guitar Harmonics

CASEY CORMIER: So, if you've been following along, you're already in drop D tuning, okay. So we have this sound where we play D major cord but we play all the notes on top, okay. Well, this is nice but we still have our regular cord shapes everything that were required to use but if we want to have completely open cord shapes. Well, we can drop other strings, for example, we're going to drop this A here to sound like a G by playing open G, and matching the 12th fret harmonic of A to that sound. Alright good. D, G, and B remained the same, okay. They're the same tuning cause you can find the D, G, and B in the composition of the G major cord. Think of this as the fact that we're making the composition of a D major. Now, we can use a relative tuning technique here to play the 3rd fret of the D string and drop the D down to that. But if we really are keen on harmonics, we can use the 5th fret harmonic if I now drop D and match open E to that. Now, we strum starting on the A string, we have an open G cord. [GUITAR PLAYING] Okay, so that's a G major cord. This is how it should sound.

Watch these related videos

Guitar Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

acoustic arpeggio arpeggios beginner blues board chords classical electric electric guitar finger frets guitar guitar hero guitarlessons guitars hero instruments inversion jazz key learn major minor music theory musical musical instruments musiclessons neck notes pick play playing riffs rock roll scales set sheet solo songs strings strum tab tabs technique techniques theory tuning up
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow