What are harmonics when it comes to a guitar?

[Bubble99]

I’m reading about a guitar and they are making reference to vibrating string like a a guitar string of single note vibrating produces other notes above itself called harmonic. Not sure what is harmonics or how that works.


When you pluck a guitar string you get a mixture of the different harmonics or overtone that makes the sound? Each of these notes like a guitar string vibrating (harmonics) is a ‘natural state’ of the vibrating string.

well a vibrating string (e.g. a guitar string). It has “natural states” which we call the harmonics. Only certain “states” (modes) of vibration are possible:

I’m not sure what is harmonics or overtones. And the information is really advanced.

 

[BrianBaughn]

You might need the equivalent of a physics degree to really understand what's happening. Also, the string is one thing…and the body to which it's attached is another.

 

[mikzn]

Here is a video that covers guitar harmonics

 

[BrianBaughn]

Not sure that's what he's talking about.

 

[Bubble99]

You might need the equivalent of a physics degree to really understand what's happening. Also, the string is one thing…and the body to which it's attached is another.

Yea I will have look at the video tonight. I think what the problem is I need basic of how guitar works and how music is produced and how that tied into harmonics.

Just looking up harmonics not understanding how a guitar works and how music is produced is going to make it much harder for me to understand harmonics.

 

[Huntn]

Not sure that's what he's talking about.

Two minutes into that video he is showing how to produce different kinds of sounds which would be harmonics as I understand it.

Btw, I am a failed guitar player who spent about a year, later in life using self help and online courses to try to learn to play electric guitar. I played, but I never achieved what I was shooting for and gave up. At the time I traveled for a living and had an uneven schedule making guitar lessons with a person not practical. If you are learning guitar, it’s possible you’ll be a self taught success, but I think if you can afford it, that lessons with a real person could have benefitted me greatly. 😷