Pinch Harmonics (Poll)

[LLL]

How do you get your pinch harmonics?

Index finger for me.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

The inside of the thumb of course. Pick a note and immediately touch it with the thumb on the way down.

 

[jeremy]

yeah, i do the same. side of the thumb

 

[Securb]

Thumb

 

[Bogner]

Thumb primarily.

 

[Artie]

The inside of the thumb of course. Pick a note and immediately touch it with the thumb on the way down.

I do it a little different. I strike upwards with my thumb. First, my nail picks the string, then the skin hits it almost immediately afterward. Works great.

 

[NegativeEase]

How the lord intended. the thumb.

 

[PS412]

Mostly thumb and closer to the neck. I find that closer to the bridge my finger on the upstroke seem to work better for the squealy squealers.

 

[GuitarStv]

Thumb.

 

[SlyFoxx]

I just do it. Never really stopped to examine exactly how.

 

[dave74]

Thumb Tom

 

[Aceman]

Thumb

 

[NegativeEase]

Zac Wild does them by pressing his junk against the control plate on the backside of his Gibby. Facts

 

[Mincer]

Side of the thumb, but rarely do it. I do tend to get natural harmonics 5/7/12 frets from where my left hand is a lot, though.

 

[Demanic]

I just do it. Never really stopped to examine exactly how.

This.

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[Sirion]

Thumb. I wish I were able to do it on upstrokes with my index finger, so that I could do tremolo harmonics, but alas...

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

A cool trick is immediately pull up the bar for crazy squeal. I think Joe Satriani does it a lot live.

 

[dave74]

Zac Wild does them by pressing his junk against the control plate on the backside of his Gibby. Facts

And we see the kind of mutants that result from such vulgar acts!
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[Erlend_G]

nose :/

 

[GuitarStv]

I was playing around with this last night, and realized that it's actually pretty easy to do pinch harmonics with the index finger too . . . but where I use the meat of my thumb to pinch harmonic normally, I seem to always use the nail on my index finger. You just twist your wrist the right way and the harmonics pop right out.