Do You Need a Metal Guitar to Play Pinch Harmonics? #shorts

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yessir. taking a deep dive into artificial harmonics... can you dig it

[thomassmith]

For the squeal, you need a hi gain amp. Then you’ll see a massive difference.

[dingusfuzzklonnkt]

Technique combined with an adequate amp for metal.

[Ottophil]

right hand position is the most important. Ill see people try to squeal over and over without moving the picking hand. Find those places where the pinch hits better, and muscle memorize them

[majortellandrus]

Your tone matters a lot with this technique. Many people have already got it down but don't realize it because they're using a low gain tone and the volume on their guitar is down at like a 3. High volume high gain is the key.

[bread]

You need a lot of gain for pinch harmonics to ring out

[periachi]

For Dimebag type squealing, you need a humbucker and a lot of gain. However you can do more ZZ top type pinchs without the gain.

[horizonplays]

Dude be like "let me grab 6 different guitars" gets 6 stratocasters

[stackerhvh]

Roy Buchanan riffs... nice. The extra push from the humbuckers definitely sounded clearer and more like the pinch harmonics were full notes. Neat comparison.

[blakeoms]

Hammer smashed face is the first thing to come to mind for a practice routine

[_Chops_]

My guitar teacher was always impressed that I could make pinch harmonics sound perfect when completely unplugged

[benmorris]

As someone else has already said, position of picking hand is important. Think of artificial/tapped harmonics. They will only sound at nodal points. You don't have frets to show where the harmonic is so you need to practise judging where those points are for each note

[SKJESUS-qkqy]

For big squeals lots of gain and maybe not a single coil will definitely get you closer. Something that people also don’t tell you is that each guitar and each pickup has a sweet spot for pinch harmonics, so if you’re not getting strong harmonics you can adjust where your pick attacks the string. Different places on the string will also give you different versions of pinch harmonics so there’s a lot to fool around with when it comes to nuance and the ideal sound you’re looking for

[HeatherBarks]

from my experience, it's a mixture of having a good metal amp that can actually dish out the high squeals, and having the right positioning on your strumming hand. there's sweet spots for different pitches of pinch harmonics and you need to be able to get them down if you wanna get good :]

[CarelessWinner]

Pinch harmonics sound at a low volume and high frequencies. So if you add more gain, meds or treble they'll ring out more. Also, humbucking pickups will help eliminate some unwanted sounds so that the notes stand out more. But none of that matters if you don't have the technique or don't play the right notes. A huge part of it is right hand placement in relation to the fretted note. Think of it like playing regular harmonics but moving the nut while doing so. Start off by playing an open string with your picking hand pinching on the 12th fret and this should give you an octave above the open note. Move your picking hand to the 5th or 24th and the note will be 2 octaves above the open string. The 7th and and 19th fret will a 5th (1 octave up) above. Now when you start fretting notes you need to move the picking hand up the same number of frets. E.g. if you fret a note on the 5th fret, you can pinch either the 10th, 12th, 17th, 24th or 29th. If you fret the 12th you can pinch the 17th, 19th, 24th, 31st or 36th. Obviously the frets don't go that high, you just have to figure out where they'd be.

I hope this explanation helps anyone who took the time to read it.

[xXxThelegendxXx]

“Only to be kinda good at it” *nails it every time*

[taibasarovadil]

my dumbass read the title as "do you need a guitar to play pinch harmonics"

[jondo]

Also totally works on an acoustic guitar!

[bigbo]

It’s about amp settings and technique; a good artificial harmonic doesn’t use a pinch, it’s grazing the string with the edge of your thumb. Also more mids and gain will help accentuate a harmonic.

[brianaxb]

You need to get yourself a squire contemporary strat. Has a floyd rose, sound and feels amazing. Squire did their thing on it.

[goner.]

More gain because that makes more frequencies pop out and the harmonic rings easier.