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CASEY CORMIER: We'll begin this segment by talking about harmonic tuning. Now, we've
already done some relative tuning using the 5th fret of the E string, 5th fret of the
A string, 5th fret of the D, 4th fret of the G to match B, and 5th fret of the D. While
we're going to be using harmonics on the 5th and 7th fret, harmonics being our fingers
barely touching right above the fret, not actually putting in any pressure on. And these
will sound as octaves-sometimes twice, sometimes 3 times as high as where they're actually
been played. The interesting part is we'll be able to tune with these and when we check
with our relative tuning, be able to tell if our guitar has good intonation or not.
After we've learned and become comfortable to some of these harmonics, we'll be able
to drop tuning. We'll be able to change the tuning of our guitar so, so far we have been
playing a standard tuning E, A, D, G, B, and E. Well, when we start doing open tunings,
we'll be able to play for example in drop-in open G tuning where we drop our E to a D,
our A has become a G, you have a D, G, B, and then we drop our high E to a D2. When
we strum this, it sounds like an open-an actual G chord that we play on standard tuning. We're
going to learn how to tune there and how to tune back with harmonics 'cause we also want
to you know-we rarely use open tuning but it is a fun thing to try out. Then we'll get
into some more techniques. Partial chords, power chords, alternate picking-just some
new techniques to make the things you've learned sound fresh and work in other genres. At the
end of this session, we'll be talking about restringing the guitar. Something-it is very
important for a guitarist to know how to do for themselves. Well, I'll demonstrate by
restringing one string on my guitar and explaining how the rest of the strings can be restrung
in a similar fashion.