31 lines
1.8 KiB
SQL
31 lines
1.8 KiB
SQL
Michel de Jong
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pinch harmonics exercise 1
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I've had a lot of questions about pinch harmonics lately and decided to post a few PH exercises, this is the first one. In a nut shell, the basics of playing pinch harmonics are:
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1) Find a convenient way for you to touch the string lightly with your picking hand at the same time that you pick the note. How this is done best depends on the way you hold the pick. Most players hold the pick between the thumb and the side of the index finger (like f.e. Satriani does), then pinch harmonics are probably played most easily by touching the string with the side of the thumb on a downstroke. I have a rather unconventional way to hold the pick, using a three-finger grip with the thumb, index and second finger (like Steve Morse does). Moreover, I prefer playing upstrokes rather than downstrokes and use the nail of my second finger or the nail of the third finger (which is close to the strings with my way of playing anyway) to produce the pinch harmonics.
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2) Touch the string in the right spot. I've talked plenty about that in "the secrets of..."
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In this "trick", I play a little melody line in E harmonic minor and I "pinch" each note such that it rings with the fourth harmonic (i.e. 2 octaves higher). To do this, find the spot where you get the 4th harmonic of the first note (somewhere near the middle pick-up on a strat-type guitar) and move your right hand towards the neck and back while picking the notes, the distances you have to move the right hand are small and it takes some experimenting to do it, but it's not hard.
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Key =
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E|---------------------------------|
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B|-------7-8-7-8-10-10^(1)r-10-8---|
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G|-9-8-9-------------------------9-|
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D|---------------------------------|
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A|---------------------------------|
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E|---------------------------------|
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