Post your Most Kick-A$$ Harmonics!!!!

[JammerMatt]

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Oh, we can't forget CHRIS OLIVA, either!!

Oh my gosh, TO you're going to kick me out of the "hopelessly stuck in the 80's club :friday: " but.... remind me who Chris Oliva is.... :chairshot

 

[JammerMatt]

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Akira Takasaki. Well, ironically, "Rock and Roll Crazy Nights" is on heavy rotation at the Chase household right now. It's not me, however... it's my 2-1/2 year old son. I ebayed that CD after losing it to the sands of time, put it in the car and went for a drive to Starbucks with my son. That boy loves that song, and sings the chorus. And it's also the "Starbucks song". Now, he's taken to singing the song whilst strumming the ukulele.

Anyway, Akira has that strumming technique where he gets sort of a harmonic at the end of his power chords. I dig that sound... totally 80's hair metal.

Next recording might be me on rhythm, sonny boy on Vox for R&RCN.

 

[rocker_71]

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Heres one I did about 2 weeks ago chock full 'o some lynch like harmonics:
http://hair-metal.com/content/testgtr1.mp3

WolfGang --> Boss SD-1--> Splawn Quick Rod --> Marshall 4-12


Master of harmonics,, c'mon,, EVH baby. He wrote the book on it. Pinch, tap, natural, you name it.

He dude, that was freaking awesome.
That is how I want to play too man!

For that kind of playing I am practicing every day.
And have to for a long time, to sound a little like his...

 

[rocker_71]

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I made a humble piece myself for the contest. :22:

It is called 'Pinched one' and to be found on my soundclick:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/rockersolitarismusic.htm

BTW: I am still practicing those damn harmonics.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Oh my gosh, TO you're going to kick me out of the "hopelessly stuck in the 80's club :friday: " but.... remind me who Chris Oliva is.... :chairshot

Yep, you're on probation, my friend, and you will have to pay a fine of 3 Guinness and a shot of Bailey's Irish Creme.
Chris Oliva was the guitarist from SAVATAGE.

 

[JammerMatt]

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I made a humble piece myself for the contest. :22:

It is called 'Pinched one' and to be found on my soundclick:

Kick A$$, Rocker! Good to know the pinch is alive and well in the Low Countries.

 

[JammerMatt]

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Yep, you're on probation, my friend, and you will have to pay a fine of 3 Guinness and a shot of Bailey's Irish Creme.
Chris Oliva was the guitarist from SAVATAGE.

I'll gladly pay up sometime. I have yet to pick up that Savatage CD because I finally sat down and gave some serious listening time to Voodoo Highway and now I can't stop... so that's my lame excuse.

Can I do the shot first, and then the 3 Guinness? You know, Liquor before Beer and you're in the clear. Or is it Beer after Liquor... never been sicker... I can never remember.

 

[DirrtyCraig]

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Thanks for the compliments guys,, I hate to sound like **** when I say its a sloppy performance, but it was. I'm still screwing around with Cubase and let my chops go to hell in the process...

oh, Akira Tagasaki rules man, I love that guys playing. How about the solo in "Lost without you love",, oh My GOD!... that sh!t rocks.

 

[celticafro]

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Well, i dont' play metal myself, so i dont' got no clips for yas all.

But I can say that the dudes from Mastodon are my favorite Pinch Harmonicists! They use piches in a way that I hadn't heard before. Super-fast buttrock interrupted occasionally by these quick, creepy squeals and squwaks... SO RAD!!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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I'll gladly pay up sometime. I have yet to pick up that Savatage CD because I finally sat down and gave some serious listening time to Voodoo Highway and now I can't stop... so that's my lame excuse.

Can I do the shot first, and then the 3 Guinness? You know, Liquor before Beer and you're in the clear. Or is it Beer after Liquor... never been sicker... I can never remember.

After a few pints, I like a Bailey's as a finisher, for some reason. Must be the sweetness. Most of my friends are totally hammered after that, but I've built up a nice immunity to it.

 

[shreder75]

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ahh, I can't wait till we record a couple practices...then I can get some examples of my pinch harmonics on here...one of the few things I'm proud of..lol..

funny story, I wish I had a tape recorder going on friday at guitar center..was playing a tuned down EBMM axis through a peavy 5150 combo amp..talk about harmonics! I was laughing my ass off..nailing that zakk harmonic on the third fret was givin' me the giggles I tell ya =D

 

[JammerMatt]

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Someday I'll have a real amp, but in the meanwhile the Line6 does a pretty good job of giving you the squeaks and chirps. When I was younger, I thought that you needed tons of treble for the pinch harmonic. Now, I've found from messing around that I need more mid and bass, and I needed to lower the pickup to get a great pinch. These all seem contradictory the sound, but I've found it to work for me.

 

[shreder75]

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Someday I'll have a real amp, but in the meanwhile the Line6 does a pretty good job of giving you the squeaks and chirps. When I was younger, I thought that you needed tons of treble for the pinch harmonic. Now, I've found from messing around that I need more mid and bass, and I needed to lower the pickup to get a great pinch. These all seem contradictory the sound, but I've found it to work for me.

how's that flextone treating you? I'm always tweaking my vetta...

anywho, mids are a BIG key to harmonics....they're very touchy though....too few mids and you won't cut through..too many and you'll sound obnoxious/flubby....so I'm dealing with that problem all the time...

and right now I'm thinking of RAISING my pickups to get a better tone..especially in the low end....lol....it ain't easy bein' a guitar player ya know =)

 

[rocker_71]

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Kick A$$, Rocker! Good to know the pinch is alive and well in the Low Countries.

Really tanx man.

I know that compared to eg DirrtyCraig I play like a moron.
But I still learn and find it asskicking just to play some stuff.
I am really glad that someone appreciates what I play.

Greetz from the Low Countries,
Rocker_71

 

[JammerMatt]

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I must admit the Flextone has been real good to me. It's perfect for my situation. I live in a small house with two young children and a wife who doesn't go for all that loud rock and roll.

It is the Anti-Osbournes at my house. I have to do all my own yardwork.

So, the Flex does real good in this situation, I can get all kinds of useful tones. I think the direct-in recording is a real powerful feature of the flex. That last clip was straight in, and I thought that tonally, it sounded pretty okay considering that I didn't tweak the tone a bit. It doesn't come out all compressed and processed sounding like you hear some line-ins doing. I just plugged in and went for it. From what I hear, the Vetta is a much nicer big brother to the Flex, with much better modeling. Someday I'm gonna get that Silver Jubilee, but I don't think I'll ever part with my Flex as long as it's working. The recording feature is just too good.

 

[JammerMatt]

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Really tanx man.

I know that compared to eg DirrtyCraig I play like a moron.
But I still learn and find it asskicking just to play some stuff.
I am really glad that someone appreciates what I play.

Greetz from the Low Countries,
Rocker_71

Compared to Dirty Craig, alot of us sound like morons. But you know what? I'm much better looking than Dirty Craig, so life has a way of balancing itself out

But seriously, this thread ain't about how good you play, and I think it just takes balls to put anything out into cyberspace. You're not going to find anyone here bashing the other guy, unless you specifically ask for criticism (then you will get it). If it was easy, everyone would do it. I know so many people who say, "oh, I've always wanted to play," or "I started to play but gave it up, wish I'd never done that." It just takes alot of perserverence to play through the bad times, and try to improve.

So to make a long story longer... buck up little camper.. we'll take this mountain together. I've got a very long way to go, myself.

-Matt

 

[rocker_71]

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Nice spoken, Matt.

 

[JeffB]

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All of the guys in my sig pretty much are pinch harmonic freaks...

Mathias Jabs?

Jake?

Sykes?

Most mind blowing pinch harmonics are at the very end of Gary Moore's solo in "rockin' every night" off Corridors of Power....find it...listen...and weep....

I use a lot as well...but I don't have any clips..sorry

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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... buck up little camper.. we'll take this mountain together.

Buck up, little camper. We'll tackle that slope ... together.
Better off Dead. One of the best movies of all time, and ANOTHER reason why the 80's was the best decade in mankind's history.

 

[JammerMatt]

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Buck up, little camper. We'll tackle that slope ... together.
Better off Dead. One of the best movies of all time, and ANOTHER reason why the 80's was the best decade in mankind's history.

Right, you are Ken! Gol dang, TO, are you sure you weren't born in Astoria, Oregon on May 6, 1966? You must be my long lost twin, because nobody else in my family understands me. Or perhaps I was born in NYC, and your folks shipped me off to some underprivaledged west coast family... either way, it was a waste of a perfectly good white boy.

Either that, or you're my hand-twin.

**Tentacles... that would be tentacles**