I was looking at this month's Flatpicker Magazine and then looked at the cover and realized that it was Acoustic Guitar Magazine, but it has a flatpicker for and editor now, and it is now all articles on How to Flatpick Good. I do make some effort to keep up with the times, so I have gone out and purchased a flatpick, although the sales girl said I looked "kind of old" to be buying one. I have run into a couple of problems. On page 91, flatpicker Richard Johnson explains that short scale guitars have "more fundamental overtones." This has me stumped. Can any flatpicker explain what a fundamental overtone is?. The other problem is that flatpicking uses two symbols, one of which looks like a "V" and the other looks something like a table. The magazine explains that the table means stroke down and the V means stroke up, but its the old problem on the guitar, if you stroke down physically (towards your leg), you are stroking up musically (towards the high strings), and if you stroke down musically (towards the low strings) you are stroking up physically (towards your chin), so I am stumped again, and I am afraid that I might be playing these tunes upside down. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.