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- From: mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Harmonics
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:19:01 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <1jq01aINN8e0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> indigo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Adam Schneider) writes:
- >
- [original post re: harmonics removed]
- >
- >The problem, of course, is that you can't
- >match a harmonic on your G string to one on your B string,
- [and the rest of Adam's post shamelessly hacked into oblivion]
-
- Oh yeah you can! Here's the harmonics that should be the same on the G and
- B strings: 4th fret G 5th fret B (and 7th fret E), they're all Es.
- Much easier to hear on an electric, but I even tune my acoustic this way.
-
- ZZ Topp's guitarist is fantastic at "false" or "artificial" harmonics.
- It's kinda tricky to do with the "choke up on the pick" technique (as he
- does). Dick around with it and it'll just jump out at you when you get
- it just right. Then head for Carnegie Hall (practise, practise, practise!).
-
- As an also-ran technique: tapping your fret board at nice harmonic values
- of a fretted note (e.g. +12 frets, +5 frets, etc.) is a cool Eddie VH
- style technique. Intro to Jamie's Cryin, for ex.
- I told of this in the bass newsgroup, it works just as well on basses.
- I have trouble withe the false harmonic technique that involves plucking
- and stopping with different digits of the right hand.
- All of the above-mentioned techniques are a lot easier to learn with
- pictures to go along. Lemme know if any (all?) of this is unclear.
-
- Michael Breen
- singing and philozophizing
- (enharmonically)
-