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- From: leff@sco.COM (Bill Leff)
- Subject: Re: Artificial harmonics
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:11:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.111143.9050@sco.com>
- References: <1993Jan23.232327.19103@cs.tulane.edu> <1993Jan25.225203.5547@news.unomaha.edu> <1993Jan26.052922.28334@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan26.052922.28334@leland.Stanford.EDU> termite@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Paik) writes:
- >I hold the pick between my thumb and middle finger leaving my index finger
- >free. I then put my index finger down where the harmonic will ring and pck
- >with my thumb and middle finger. I usually only do the 2nd harmonic with
- >this technique because it gets too hard otherwise.
- >
- >The trick is to play a line with your left hand and instead of picking
- >regularly you hit the 2nd harmonic. Here's an example:
- >
- >Left hand Right hand index finger
- >2nd fret 14th fret
- >5th fret 17th fret
- >7th fret 19th fret
- >
- >OK, did I confuse everyone? Does anyone else out there do this?
-
- This is a classical guitar technique (minus pick of course). I would
- think most of us use it. I also use the Billy Gibbon's style "squeeze"
- as well as a technique that uses the thumb and index or third
- finger, with the thumb slightly resting on the string in front of
- of the picking finger. The location is the standard picking place
- (over the soundhole, between the pickups etc). It works well for
- creating artificial harmonics (maybe someone mentioned this already)
-
- Check out Tuck Andress (of Tuck and Patty) for great harmonics.
-
- -leff
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