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Pinch Hermonics!!!!

BondigityFoShiz	Date: April 10, 2005 @ 7:44 PM i use my index finger over the pick up and hold my pick between my thumb and middle finger. then i pick and remove the finger off the pick up at the same time. this way is getting kinda boring to do it works but i would rather find an easier way any ideas?
zedsalt	Date: April 11, 2005 @ 12:10 PM I'll qualify this by pointing out that I have NO formal training in guitar playing, but the method that came to me naturally is picking in front of the harmonic I want, hitting it with the middle joints of my fingers. I don't know if I would've started doing that if I wasn't playing instruments are so "alive" harmonically (mainly a '72 Guild S100 Deluxe and an Ovation Ultra). It just feels like a more natural path to unnatural harmonics; my picking hand is just following my fretting hand around. I don't have to even look at the guitar to do it, and I'm one of those players who usually keep their eyes focused somewhere near the neck to be able to take quick glances at the fretboard.
Resiliance	Date: April 11, 2005 @ 12:18 PM Hit it, and then just flick it quickly with your thumb to sound the harmonic
japarti	Date: April 25, 2005 @ 5:11 AM find a good natural harmonic say the twelfth fret make sure your thumb is slightly petruding from the tip of the pick so that your thumb hits that string almost straight after the pick. strike the string, u should hear a shrill sound if u have done it right it took me a while too get the hang of it keep practicing u'll get it
Thomcoombes	Date: May 8, 2005 @ 9:08 PM I think it sounds great when you hit a harmonic, and you can bend the string at the top of the head or neck. I tried to do it in a song I recorded called 'These Thoughts". Anyway, I think it's cool. Thom
Traf	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 9:26 AM I had my harmonica pinched once... Never got it back..
EvilPicnic	Date: May 20, 2005 @ 5:26 AM I use my pinky. I can do it with my thumb too, but I seem to have much more control with the pinky, and can even do two pinch harmonics at once, using my pinky across the node points of both strings. I think it's just personal preference. Playing fast it's easier to use the thumb, and it desn't look as cool playing with your pinky sticking out...
gerard100	Date: June 13, 2005 @ 11:12 PM hit the string with the tip of your nail a split second before the plectrum