Guitar: Tips for Pinched Harmonics?
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Practice artificial harmonics on your steel-string acoustic guitar. If you can nail it there, you'll have no problem delivering on your electric.
guitarguru777
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Each guitar has a sweet spot where the harmonics will allways hit. When i look for guitars i try to find one with the sweet sopt where i pick. It takes a while for me to find guitars that work for me. I can hit them on any guitar, but its nice to not have to think about it and just PING THE SHIT OUT OF EM !!!!
Experiment around using the picking technique moving up and down the strings toeard the bridge then back toward the neck. Theres usually 3 or 4 spots that you can hit differnt tones. once you find the spot remember it practice picking normally then moving to the spot of the harmonic you want. Do that over and over and eventaully your hand will remember the distance from where you pick to where the harmonic is.
Heres a little MP3 of a technique i use. This is Alternate Picked Pinch Harmonics running through a scale. I can do this effortlessly on my guitar cause the sweet spot is right where i normally pick
I move around in a few differnt sweet spots so you can hear the different harmonics at the same note. The end of the MP3 is the aternate picked technique
http://www.amyjohouston.com/artificial.mp3
Experiment around using the picking technique moving up and down the strings toeard the bridge then back toward the neck. Theres usually 3 or 4 spots that you can hit differnt tones. once you find the spot remember it practice picking normally then moving to the spot of the harmonic you want. Do that over and over and eventaully your hand will remember the distance from where you pick to where the harmonic is.
Heres a little MP3 of a technique i use. This is Alternate Picked Pinch Harmonics running through a scale. I can do this effortlessly on my guitar cause the sweet spot is right where i normally pick
I move around in a few differnt sweet spots so you can hear the different harmonics at the same note. The end of the MP3 is the aternate picked technique
http://www.amyjohouston.com/artificial.mp3
Yngvai X
Dark Emperor
guitarguru777 said:
I'm more interested to know why your mp3 is hosted on an escort model's website...
the_satanic_rabbit
Return of Ganon
It's best to be able to learn the technique acousticly first, but if you need help plug into the amp, crank up the gain and the treble, be sure you're using the bridge pickup, and if you have a tone control make sure it is all the way up. It always seems easiest to me to get the harmonics to really ring out using the G string. Hell, that application may go beyond guitar playing...must experiment
For me, it works the same as the Satanic Rabbit, except it always works best for me with the E/D string (depending on tuning). Depending on the scale, I use the lowest note as long as its not the 1st fret. It VERY rarely works there for me.
guitarguru777
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Ha ha ha cause its hte webserver i run with the most bandwidth. She gets so many hits she has unlimited bandwidth. So i host MP3's there insted of killing the bandwidth on my own serverYngvai X said:I'm more interested to know why your mp3 is hosted on an escort model's website...
Thanks for the compliment on the technique. Im telling you man if you can learn to alternate pick those baystids you can hit them on ANY GUITAR even a crappy hondo....lol Da Fukn Guru
guitarguru777
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Vital Remains
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The physics behind the sound - the harmonic results from tapping the string on a node which is in direct relation to the string length (i.e., scale length and fretted note). The pitch produced is either an ovtave or an overtone. But, that's dumb talk.
It really takes a good bit of practice and familiarity with the guitar you're playing. Metal picks can help a lot, although according to John Sykes, "it's not really the me'al pick". But that's another story from a helluva night in Lubbock...
I think I recall an interview from Tony MacAlpine when talking about the pinches he does on Urban Days that he practiced nothing but pinch harmonics for hours before recording. Just so he'd be familiar with what pitches were where...
It really takes a good bit of practice and familiarity with the guitar you're playing. Metal picks can help a lot, although according to John Sykes, "it's not really the me'al pick". But that's another story from a helluva night in Lubbock...
I think I recall an interview from Tony MacAlpine when talking about the pinches he does on Urban Days that he practiced nothing but pinch harmonics for hours before recording. Just so he'd be familiar with what pitches were where...
