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And when you’ve mastered those 2, try this one
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ive been playing for almost a year now, this is my axe
BudaFuka,
hahah thats so weird. those are the first 2 songs my teacher taught me, Smoke on the Water and Nothing Else Matters.
Yeah I’ve been playing for about a year now and I play with an
Ibanez RG120. I am having some serious difficulty doing “Pinch Harmonics”.
Anyone got tips???
For pinch harmonics help:
Use a higher guage pick. Pref. about 1.0mm. Make sure you hold the pick correctly and just practice practice practice. It took me a good time to get it down but now I do it flawlessly everytime.
Lots of gain will help you learn, but once you master you should be able to do it on acoustic guitars. Use your bridge pickup.
Easy songs to learn:
Truly madly deeply by Savage Garden (4 chords)
To be with you by Mr. Big (less than 8 chords)
Ryu’s theme song on SFII (very easy and helps picking)
Once you get the choked-up grip on your pick down and are hitting the string properly (with the pick and side of your thumb, and possibly some of your forefinger), the main challenge is finding the locations of the harmonic nodes. Technically, it’s an exact science, but it’s impractical to think of it that way as a guitar player. You’ll just have to look for the different areas on the string that produce harmonics, and check out the different tones they give.
The problematic element is that the node changes place on the string, depending on which note you’re fretting. Again, you can think of it as an exact science, since the node will always be the same proportional distance between the fretted note and the bridge, but it’s more practical to just work at it and develop a feel for it.
There’s also the less important issue of gear. If you’re good at them, you can get pinch harmonics to sound on a guitar that isn’t even plugged in, but it definitely helps to have a saturated tone dialed in and a pickup with decent output. It will help the harmonic to ring out and sustain.
Goodm0urning,
did you by chance take your name from the Megadeth song or am I just thinking wishfully?
It is from the Megadeth song.
I thought it was from when you turn the Tekken 1/2 cab on it says GOOD MORNING!
very informative post. :tup:
i manged to randomly pull off 2/100 harmonic pitches today 
i think i need practice. Also im looking to buy a stack to start playing
with my buddies on the weekend. What would be a decent stack for like
backyard shows and stuff.??
Price range?
IDK prob around 500$ or so. I really don’t know what they go for.
You aren’t going to find a worthwhile stack for that much money. The only half stacks in that price range are over sized practice amps like the Marshall MG which come with shoddily built cabs. IDK, what type of music you play, but if you’re after metal tones you can’t go wrong with a Peavey 5150 combo. It’s 50 watts, but it’s tube and plenty loud even for something like a backyard show.
So I’ve been GASing pretty hard recently for a Les Paul. I’m saving up right now and I should have enough for a used standard by December-ish. I’ve yet to find one that I actually like the feel of, but I think I’ll be able to find. Originally I was considering a PRS Custom 22, but when I finally got to play one, it was a bit of a letdown. It just wasn’t the kind of guitar I was after…
Yeah i love playing deathcore type of stuff. How much money should I be dropping for a decent not to fancy stack??? 700-800$???
A 5150 head will run you about $600 at least and then a decent 4x12 cab will be at least $400. You can find cabs for cheaper, but if you get a cheap cab your sound will suffer accordingly.
Another option is the Peavey Valveking head which can be found for between $300-400, but it might not have tone your after.
Yeah… $500 is tough.
My suggestion is to go with a less expensive 50-100 watt combo and to replace the speakers with Celestions. This will give you better than crap tone but not amazing.
Check this amp out:
I have a 30 watt version as a practice amp and it sounds pretty damn decent. If you replace the speakers in the amp in the link theres no doubt you will be getting compliments. 50 watts will be heard in band practice and small gigs, it also helps that it has 2 speakers.
My friend actually has that same amp and they love to start feeding back once you get to about 5 on volume.
And personally I think if you’re going to be spending that much money and plan on gigging you should go all tube.
And considering your budget you may want to give Bugera a look. They have several amps modeled after various peavey amps like the 5150, JSX, and XXX. There’s been some concern about their reliability because they’re pretty much just an offshoot of Behringer, but so far it seems like a lot of negative info is blown out of proportion. Something like this…
I have no problem with solid state amps as practice amps, but for gigging they just don’t cut it (with obvious exceptions like the Roland Jazz Chorous, and the Line 6 Vetta, etc).
i guess i’ll subscribe. i’ve been playing guitar since i was 14. i’m definitely not as good as i should be, but whatever.
as for gear, i have a Schecter C1, B. C. Rich Warlock, and my first guitar which was a crappy no name electric. i also have three crappy no name acoustics:rofl:. my amp is a JM150 (discontinued), and i pretty much only use BIG STUBBY picks (the dark purple ones).
i started out with Alternative Rock then made the conversion to Metal; though i’ll play pretty much anything. i’m not really a lead player, i’ve always appreciated rhythms and drum interaction over soloing. i’m way more right hand oriented over left hand. that started back when i was a noob when i first heard Creep by Radiohead. a group of friends and i were figuring it out and when we got to that part in the chorus when Thom sings “what the hell am i doin’ here… i don’t belong here…” [media=youtube]nxpblnsJEWM"[/media]nobody could play it right. they’d all strum it slowly as octaves. i play by ear so that messed me up. eventually i figured out when the sheet music said ‘tremelo’ wasn’t the effect but a cue ‘pick fast as hell,’ so i just practiced picking fast. it eventually became less sloppy and i got fast enough to play Fear Factory songs no problem (Dino is a beast). after i mastered my favorites on Fear Factory’s Obsolete album, i tried to get faster. at my peak speed, i could flam notes like a drummer. i’ve since lost all that speed though :lol: working out and getting older has wreaked havoc on my playing style (working out has messed it up more so. i never realized how much i use my biceps and triceps when i speed pick. :crosseyed:).
now my speed comes and goes. [media=youtube]NUjpW_mfg9c"[/media] was a song i could yawn through a few years ago, now it’s a chore. a chore that makes my arm cramp up 3/4ths through it (keep in mind, outside of the fast parts, everything is down picked.).
favorite metal tones:
Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah; my favorite guitarist hands down. [media=youtube]U5YEqmIIdj8"[/media]
Dino Cazares from Fear Factory’s Obsolete album; it’s like he found a way to make notes out of TV static :lol:
Devolved’s Calculated album. great guitar/drum interaction.
Metallica’s …And Justice For All album. all other Metallica albums are unlistenable to me [/blasphemy]
Devin Townsend/Ziltoid; [media=youtube]lVifUqwui7A"[/media] most bands live shit doesn’t sound this good and they’re just as digital as he is.
@MagnetGenocide on artificial harmonics: i’ll try to add to goodm0urning’s beast of a post. i can do them consistently, but it took a few weeks. how you hold the pick also affects your consistency when you’re first starting out. while picking an artificial harmonic, keep the edge of your thumb parallel to the strings, then lightly swipe the string after you pick it with the corner of your thumb. put your thumb 1mm before the tip of the pick to get great results.
Theory behind harmonics (i think):
1000s of harmonics make up a single note. when you do a ‘pinch harmonic’ all you’re doing is *muting *the dominant harmonic so the second dominant harmonic is audible at that position- which is why different areas to pinch will make different tones even if you don’t move your fretting hand.
^^^ I love Devy, SYL, and that fucking video. He is one of the most talented musicians of our time, and has a sense of humor to boot.
YOU’RE ALL GAY.
I have a friend who had an album that Devin actually produced, he said he’s actually that fucking insane in person, and that he smelled pretty bad. But he said he learned a lot from him and the experience was awesome.
I have to +1 all the Devin and SYL love in this thread.
I mentioned it before in the favorite band thread and I still stand by that nothing has yet to top the “holy shit this is metal…” feeling I got when I first heard City. I **really **want him to start touring again.
EDIT: I’m actually attempting to try and play ‘Deep Peace’ right now. There’s a tab for it, but it’s in standard and not open Cmajor so it’s easier to try and figure it out by ear than transcribe the whole thing…