While natural harmonics are relatively elementary for most guitar players, the real fun happens when you start experimenting with artificial harmonics. Natural harmonics occur, not surprisingly, naturally across the guitar neck due to specific distances between the headstock, bridge, and guitar neck. Artificial harmonics, however, happen when there is a manipulation caused by the flesh of your hands simultaneously activating strange, alien-sounding noises.

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