Artificial harmonics

fluffballpower · #1 12-13-2005, 07:17 AM

Hi, i just wondering if anyone can help me recreate this particular harmonics lick.
It starts at around 0.26 and seems to have a slide harmonic?!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...q=crazy+guitar

I can see what shes doing but i just dont get it! I cant get anything to sound......

Rgt_Lover · #2 12-13-2005, 09:20 AM

Dunno looks/sounds kind of pinched to me.

Looks like she is playing a note with pinched harmonics, but moving the pick along the string to different positions thus obtaining the desired notes. But at the same time as playing the notes she is "flicking" the tremolo bar to scoop the notes quickly. Very Vai-esque.

So yeh try find the note. Experiment over the string to find the right pitches. Get the tremolo bar flick right. There you go. Sorry couldn't help more with specifics.

pawel · #3 12-13-2005, 11:19 AM

She's not holding the bar as she's doing it. Assuming the video is not "guitar-synced", and it doesn't seem like it is, I would say she's doing pinch harmonics at different points on the string (as rgt lover said) to obtain different notes, and is possibly bending/sliding with her left hand.

Awakened Sleeper · #4 12-13-2005, 11:30 AM

Hey guys, I don't want to state the obvious but doesn't it just seem to be a few VERY short pick-scrapes? I've heard that technique on a few other tunes. Maybe I'm wrong?

sugizo_esp · #5 12-13-2005, 11:35 AM

i agree with #4

have u try pick scrape on the string that is being bended?

fluffballpower · #6 12-13-2005, 11:50 AM

you're right, I think it probably is just pick scraps, sounds pretty cool though.......

pawel · #7 12-13-2005, 11:50 AM

On further watching, I concluded that you could be right.

Wamlor · #8 12-14-2005, 08:05 AM

Looks like pick scrapes to me.

Rgt_Lover · #9 12-14-2005, 08:07 AM

I was not really paying attention; it does appear to be pick scrapes.

Were did I get tremolo bar from x.x

kelmaur · #10 12-15-2005, 07:09 AM

i will bet you 500 dollars that i dont have right now that she hit the harmonic with her ring on her picking hand...tha is what it looked like to me

kelmaur · #11 12-15-2005, 07:09 AM

grazed the string with her ring..huh...that rhymes....lmao

kelmaur · #12 12-15-2005, 07:19 AM

watch her hand (picking hand) when she does the harmonic and the ring on her third finger (ring finger)

spkenn5 · #13 12-15-2005, 09:09 AM

you mightve heard it in G3 denver =] steve did that wit his whammy bar!! it was awesome lol

Mystical Potato · #14 12-15-2005, 01:01 PM

she's not touching the strings with the pick, I think shes lightly moving her hand across the strings to create harmonics in much the same way that I cant.