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Kristofer Dahl6th December 2007I have seen this little trick more and more in your playing Gabriel - it's adds such an aggressive tweak, thanks a lot for showing it to us! ![]()
silentkap6th December 2007wow great lesson
dango6th December 2007this is so cool. i like it very much. thank you.
spdalton6th December 2007... i think my face is melting from all the pinch harmonics.
great lesson!
botoxfox6th December 2007Cool
Ben N6th December 2007wow!!! what a cool lessons
love it!!!
The Uncreator6th December 2007Great lessons, with awesome riffs!
Juan M. Valero6th December 2007That's amazing my friend !!! love this harmonics !!!
que buena leccion Gabriel, genial, que equipo usas para la distorsion??
Luciana Segovia6th December 2007I love Zakk Wylde's playing!! Great! ![]()
Gabriel Leopardi6th December 2007Thanks for the comments! It's great that you like it!
Juan: Uso un cabezal valvular hecho en Argentina que es una imitacion de los messa boggie. Estan hechos con las mismas cosas pero son mucho más economicos. La marca es Vintage Electric. Ademas uso una caja Marshall.
(Traduction: I used Vintage Electric Tube Amp for this lesson)
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ZakkWylde6th December 2007Great lesson Gabriel, thanks a lot! The harmonics sound more wyldish the more heavy you use vibrato so squeal 'em all
Batista6th December 2007Great lesson, now I'm gonna start practicing artificial and pinched harmonics for real! They sound so cool in all type of music almost. This lesson was exactly what I needed at the moment =)
David Wallimann6th December 2007Very cool lesson man! Your tone is great! What amp do you use?
Gabriel Leopardi6th December 2007Thanks guys! I use "Vintage Electric" tube amp (Made in Argentina).
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Awesome lesson Gabriel and great sound. The extra close up view really helps to see the picking technique.
I still haven't a clue how to do pinch harmonics. I can do them a little bit, but it sounds absolutely nothing like the way your doing it.
I'm hopeless ![]()
shredmandan6th December 2007nice
Dejan Farkas6th December 2007Great lesson Gabriel, the artificial harmonics can really spice the things up ![]()
SLASH916th December 2007This is an awesome lesson.
Bali6th December 2007"La marca es Vintage Electric"
Que modelo usas?
Juan M. Valero6th December 2007It's really a good amp mate !!! sounds awesome, aqui tengo un amigo que se ha hecho el solo su imitacion de mesa, jeje ![]()
Gabriel Leopardi6th December 2007Buenisimo Juan!! decile a tu amigo que te arme uno para vos!
Bali: Uso el modelo New Twin con valvulas 6l6.
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Layzer6th December 2007Me encantan sus composiciones Gab!
Keep up the good work!
lefty016th December 2007Finally, a lesson that shows how do to this without fail. THANKS!!!
Davidian6th December 2007Is it just me or are the e and E string the hardest ones to makes artifical harmonics? It sounds nice on all string except those 2.
Unleash-The-Shred6th December 2007Great job on this lesson Gabriel.
Nighthawk16th December 2007This lesson is awesome !Thanks for that Gabriel! Only now, I realise how many other guitarists, next to zakk wylde, make use of this technique. A great example is the famous riff in ain't talking about love by van halen !
But I do also have difficulties producing AH of the 2 lowest strings as Davidian posted! How come? The others work out so well...
Nick3256th December 2007awsome !!
skennington6th December 2007wow! if had closed my eyes, I probably would have thought that was Zakk!
Hisham Al-Sanea6th December 2007very well done Gabe
golfrocker6th December 2007I know it's a great lesson when I see two other instructors practicing it while I am. My guess is that they'll nail it before I do, but I'll see if I can give them a run for their money. Amazing sounds!!
Jerry Arcidiacono7th December 2007Great sound, I agree. ![]()
krudtaa7th December 2007This is really great Gabriel. Thanks for this super cool lesson!
mattacuk7th December 2007Gabriel is a real life Guitaro hero for you!
I love the detail that you put into this lesson Gabriel, and the new angles are fab.
Keep up the good work !![]()
Bogdan Radovic7th December 2007Wow great lesson on pinch harmonics! This adds a lot to heavy songs..
Gabriel Leopardi7th December 2007Thanks! I'm glad that you find helpfull this lesson. And yes Davidian, the harmonics in those strings are a bit more difficult but it's just more practice.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
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Maximus7th December 2007Another great lesson.
You are a metal machine. Good stuff.
Muris Varajic7th December 2007Awesome Gabriel!!!!! ![]()
Playing this gets addictive!
Great lesson, really useful.
Lurgen8th December 2007Gabriel comes through yet again. I have got to say, it's great that you take the time to shoot the lesson from so many angles. It really does make a big difference. I've never been able to pinch harmonics so now I'll sit down for a few hours and work through this lesson of yours and see if that changes.
Lurgen8th December 2007Holy cow, I actually did it. Repeatedly. The E strings are both damn near impossible for me just now, but the other strings are all do-able. A is pretty tough, I'm only getting it right about half the time and my AHs don't sound anywhere near as good as Gabriel's, but I'm happy!
I found that it makes a big difference where abouts on the string you actually pick. On my Strat, set to the neck pickup, I noticed that the sweet spot for the A and D strings was just above the middle pickup. The G and B were right over the middle pickup. There must be some way to estimate where abouts on the string the note lands.
I also noticed that there are more than one place on each string where you get a good harmonic, but that each of the spots results in a different note. So an AH on the D string up above the middle pickup results in higher pitch note than just above the bridge pickup.
Anybody else notice this?
Gabriel Leopardi8th December 2007Very good analisys Lurgen! Many guitar players try to reach a scale note when they do the pinch harmonics. Zakk Wylde is only interested in getting strong harmonics and sounding very noisy.
at lights end: Yes. it's addictive. Even more if you have the gain in 10 and the treble in 7.
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RyanS.8th December 2007Very fun lesson Gabriel!! I love it but everyone on my block don't! LOL Thank you!
its th first time i have managed AH on the low string thanks Gabriel
Toni Suominen8th December 2007Great lesson Gabriel!
LwShieN8th December 2007Simple and yet cool ..Loving it Gabriel ![]()
whats pinch harmonics? :S
ok i know whats pinch hramonics is now i need
to know how im doing it ? :S
Lurgen9th December 2007OK, found another potentially useful detail about pinch harmonics out this morning - if you happen to be playing a Strat, don't use one of the in-between pickup selections. Set it to use just one pickup.
For ages, I was trying to do these with my Highway One, which I almost always leave set to neck+middle. Then yesterday when I found this tutorial I grabbed my 57 re-issue which doesn't have the in-between settings and suddenly I was up and running. Obviously, Gabriel can take 90% of the credit but the pickup selector makes a difference. I grabbed my Hwy1 this morning and couldn't get a single solid harmonic out for the life of me. Then I flipped back to the neck pickup and bam - there they were.
So neck pickup only guys, at least to get going.
Techie bit, ignore if you like: Once I worked out what was going on I realised that two pickups means you have to find a point on the string where both pickups get a harmonic at the same time, significantly reducing the number of places you can strike the string to get one. There has to be some way to calculate these points, but I'm stuffed if I can do the math.
Oh, and my wife, my cat and my neighbours are looking for you Gabriel... and they don't look happy.
Gabriel Leopardi9th December 2007
I'm not responsable! It's Zakk Wylde who made me do this lesson....
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Davidian9th December 2007Yeah well this is one of the most addictive lesson for me to ![]()
can i do harmonic pinch without amp cuz i dont have one :S
Gabriel Leopardi9th December 2007Yes. You can practice it. It would sound as a muted harmonic.
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sillyman10th December 2007im havin problems with the videos on 1,2 and 3 . they either won't load or they get erased once they have loaded.only happens on this lesson. must be all the harmonics
Gabriel Leopardi10th December 2007I've checked it and it works ok in my computer. Please try again and then tell me.
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Ivan Milenkovic10th December 2007Cool riffs Gab, and a solid sound on the LP. I like it very much. Keep on rockin ![]()
Overkiller11th December 2007Holy... This is great!! Sounds really like Zakk Wylde. Really like his style. Very unique. Awesome as always, Gabe. ![]()
buttmonk12th December 2007Again, another cool lesson dude. So u used a Vintage Electric amp with gain on 10 and treble on 7. Any other effects in the signal chain? What about for ur rock style lessons like Pentatonic Rock Cliches, same setup just different amp settings? You always have great tone and I am wondering where it comes from...![]()
Great stuff, reminds me of Van Halen too...
Just a note, people with single pick up guitars, try something with hum buckers: I dunno maybe it's just me, but my Gibson with hum buckers makes his lesson a lot easier. Could be I just need more practice =)
Gabriel Leopardi14th December 2007Hi buttmonk! That's right but in the pentatonic rock cliches I used my marshall mod 8080 with a similar setting.
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sillyman18th December 2007no my video 1 still doesn't work, is der any oda way to get that video cuz im assuming theres sum important stuff on the actual technique there
Gabriel Leopardi18th December 2007That's strange... I've just tried it again and it works perfect for me.
It should be your computer... but you can contact Kris to know if there is any tip to solve this problem.
Tomy Jeon21st December 2007This sounds awesome! I can't quite get the half-artificial harmonicky sound though...
holoshreder10th January 2008O.O HOLY GOD OF METAL WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT
that was frikin insane man!!
KICK ASS
hi gabriel
I got it
and now praticing .......
thx
udo
belgian mathusalem ![]()
Awesome Gabriel! This is a great lesson
Carlos Carrillo21st February 2008gaby:
great lesson..Excellent!
MUY LOCO!!
I didn't quite get it, can I hold string/fret down with left hand when picking it with right hand, or do I have to rest my finger on the fret, and push it down the same time I pick it / a little after..?
Hmm, looks like I got it now! Thanks alot for the lesson.
hi gabriel great lesson, but i've got a problem. i used to play with jazzpicks like jazz 2 or jazz 3 but i switched picks to like tortex 73 mm and theyre so big so i cant make pinched harmonics with'em no matter how hard i try:(
Casper20th May 2008sweet "Squeelies" gabriel. fun pattern to practice artificials on man
Canis22nd April 2009Oh yes! Nothing says power like a well placed pinch harmonic!
Gabriel Leopardi24th April 2009Thanks for the comments!
Alexiaden9311th June 2009Über heavy riffs, Gabriel ! You rock ! ![]()
oh cool! Never thought about using vibrato with pinch harmonics.
Sounds awesome! thanks a bunch mate








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