Pinch harmonics

ACfixer · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

FINALLY I figured out this pinched harmonic thing! I could do them before but not consistent, I finally figured out the attack angle to nail them like they were nuthin'. Now I'm making a terrible rackett doing it on every fret for no good reason at all just because I can. It's like a 200lb weight has been taken from my neck. Feels SO good just to know I CAN if I want to. I'm doing these double-stop-pinch-bend atrocious sounding things, doing it with barre chords, whammy bar squeeeeeeling crash and burns.... Ahhhhhhhh feels soooooooooo sweet! Just like somebody at FenderTalk told me (Robby maybe), I figuree it out when I wasn't even trying... pathetic! Now I can practice something useful hehehe

jamesron41 · Lion Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 945 Location: Waco,TX

That's great dude! That's how I learned, it just came to me one day.

matdvd · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 5:04 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

Is a pinch harmonic when you try to conceal a bunch of gas, but it only really raises the pitch and sounds a whole lot funnier?

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Michael D · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

Matt, how can you have GAS already when your MIMstrat hasn't even arrived?

matdvd · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 12:39 am Post subject: Pinch harmonics

You wanna talk about GAS? Trying knowing that your MIM is one its way....Wow!

I'm like a kid on Christmas eve not being able to go to bed and sleep!

ACfixer · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 4:05 am Post subject: Pinch harmonics

Pinch harmonics make a very similar squeal to the gas concealment technique Matt, and now I have learned the art of both. The former will sometimes happen accidentaly when you are playing a riff, the latter will sometimes happen when you are trying to pinch a loaf. The trick of course lies in learning to control each until the proper time

matdvd · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 5:22 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

LoL!

The best part about being a guy is that women will NEVER know how funny fart statements and jokes are to us. Ya just don't hear too many women saying, "pinch a loaf..."

ACfixer · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 6:31 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

Farts & boogers are always funny, but I gotta tell you that fat guy eating earwax and dead skin from his nose is about as repulsive as anything I have ever heard of. I still can't stop laughing about it.

matdvd · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 3:48 am Post subject: Pinch harmonics

Now that WAS funny!

And as you said, you laugh, all the while trying to control the gag reflex. Totally discusting! hehehe

guitarman616 · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject: Pinch harmonics

hey do you or anyone else on here know what kind of guitar zakk wylde is using while hes on stage at the live and loud concert? at first i thought it was a les paul...then i thought it was a PRS...but then i looked at it better and thehead stock looks like a dean.. hope you guys know what im talking about.. let me know you guys ...~mike~

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SAguitar · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:33 am Post subject:

As far as I know, Zakk Wylde is a straight ahead Les Paul kinda guy.

And Hey AC, the really great tone comes from using both pinch techniques simultaneously, and getting them to come out in harmony!

XtremeGodChaser · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:39 am Post subject:

Hey Guyz plz tell me more bout pinch Harmonics would love to learn them...! Plz tell me the techniques to it and stuff like dat...!

SAguitar · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject:

The easiest way is to use a thick, fairly stiff pick and choke up on it until only the point is protruding form your grip on it. Then when you attack the string be sure that the skin from your finger or thumbs strikes it as well as the pick. It will (should) produce a false harmonic that can really add a new flavor to your style. This technique seems to work best with a little overdrive and reverb, of course. Analyze Billy Gibbon's early work for lots of this kind of noise! Good luck!

ACfixer · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:43 pm Post subject:

Exactly Stan. It works great with a little whammy bar, bends, and vibrato too once you learn it.

I also find that an angled pick attack (down and away...) helps alot. Try it over or near each of the pickups. It will seem like the most impossible thing in the world to do until you do it. Then you'll wonder what the big deal was Smile

jeff_osu · Tiger Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 838 Location: Oklahoma

Zakk Wylde's setup includes:

Gibson Les Paul Bullseye or Stormin' Norman (both with '81 bridge and '85 neck pickups)

Wall of Doom: 8 Marshall JCM800 100-Watt limited-edition heads with 4 marshall 1960tv 4x12 cabs and 4 marshall custom 1960b 4x12 cabs w/200 watt 12-inch electro-voice speakers

he also has a boss ce-t chorus ensemble, boss sd-1 super overdrive, dunlob jd-45, and dunlop jh-1 jimi hendrix wah

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