Kristofer Dahl14th March 2008Wow Trond this is a killer one - catchy and...pitchy!
kyldeee14th March 2008Man I love your lessons, they are awesome and this is just great...
Awesome riffs and those harmonics made my head explode Awesome mate, thanks 
Freebird14th March 2008That wasreally enjoyable
Great work Trond I like your lessons a lot!
Dejan Farkas14th March 2008Sounds great, well done
- Freebird14th March 2008
That was really enjoyable
Great work Trond I like your lessons a lot! 
Mark.14th March 2008Great!!
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Nick Kellie14th March 2008very nice stuff Trond! great sound too! what gear are you using ?
SensE14th March 2008Very Inspiring! Great Stuff, buddy~
Danilo Capezzuto14th March 2008Wow Trond, great!!
Toni Suominen14th March 2008Great lesson Trond!
Marcus Lavendell14th March 2008Awesome!!
Muris Varajic14th March 2008Heavy and high!
Trond Vold14th March 2008Thanks all
Nick: For the sound, i plug the jmp-1 preamp right into my cheap soundblaster x-fi soundcard.
Bogdan Radovic14th March 2008I really love how you incorporated these harmonics into the melody! Great job!
Pi3814th March 2008Excellent technique on those Pinch Harmonics. It's really hard to get them that clean.
- Pi3814th March 2008
Is it important to palm mute?
Tuubsu14th March 2008Once again cool! Pinches are one of my favourite techiques also!
Jakub Luptovec14th March 2008Pantera - Flooooooooooooooood.... so similar.... love this:)
Nemanja Filipovic14th March 2008wow...Trond..so good:)
Gabriel Leopardi14th March 2008Excelent composition! Good job Trond!
Bulletproof14th March 2008Very well done...love it!!
SLASH9114th March 2008This is too cool. Great job.
at lights end14th March 2008awesome! i love pinch harmonics.
Unleash-The-Shred14th March 2008Awesome job on this one. Sounds great.
Marcus Siepen14th March 2008Great lesson Trond
Dashooter14th March 2008Can you explain how your pinches so damn loud? Mine are so soft compared to yours. Are you using an insane amount of compression or something? I already use a lot of distortion and bridge pickup.
- Pi3814th March 2008
My pinches are pretty weak in comparison, too.
Ivan Milenkovic14th March 2008Great control man, great lesson
Pablo Vazquez14th March 2008Great lesson man!!! Good work!
- Maximus14th March 2008
Well done Trond.
Stevie-Ray-Vaughn14th March 2008I love how big your guitar tone is
What do you use to get that tone? 
Carlos Carrillo14th March 2008great lesson!!!!
fantastic Trond!!!- stratman3314th March 2008
awesome, i love it!
glowshadow14th March 2008nice work ,great lesson!
i still got some trouble getting clean pinch harmonic sound.. especially on the lower strings..hope I figure it out soon cause it sounds so cool when u get it right
dunno what I'm doing wrong
Hisham Al-Sanea14th March 2008very welldone Trond...nice pinch
visi0n14th March 2008yeahh great!
Outlaw211214th March 2008Sweet lesson... since getting my new guitar with emg 81/85 pickups i've become addicted to pinch harmonics, this lesson is just in time.
- Trond Vold14th March 2008
Thanks for the comments, glad you all like it
Dashooter: I'm not using a compressor on this. The active EMG pickups does help though, but this should be playable on most pups. The trick is to keep the other strings completely muted. 
David Wallimann14th March 2008Excellent lesson there! I love your video quality too!
Gerardo Siere16th March 2008Great composition, great video quality.
Joe Kataldo16th March 2008Brutal rffing and cool harmonics
Alejandro Pinero16th March 2008Good lesson man and great sound!!
Juan M. Valero17th March 2008love this lesson !!! I love this harmonics
- whammysam19th March 2008
Woosh this is fab!! Sounds like you're either torturing you're guitar or maybe pulling a pig's tail! I'd love to play like this.
- bigcondublin22nd March 2008
this lesson is brilliant.never knew my guitar could squeal like that! thanks
- marcello27th March 2008
Great lesson... did anyone have problems with the guitar pro tab? It does not seem correct to me...
- Trond Vold27th March 2008
Problems with the GP file?
- marcello2nd April 2008
yeap. first part looks of the GP file looks fine, but then it shows zeros and no notes. I am using TuxGuitar 1.0 and that might be the problem. Interesting that it is the first time I seem this type of problem using GP. if you want a screenshot let me know. Anyway, tab works fine for me.
Jopie11th April 2008Nice lesson this lesson will help me to put a few pinch harmonics into a solo
- KWEST23rd April 2008
Dang, wish my pinches were that loud, or was there a cat off camera somewhere?
Matt_0013th May 2008Great lesson Trond, I am having a blast with this one thanks so much...!!
- Trond Vold13th May 2008
Great
I had a blast making it too 
PassionPlay26th June 2008Great lesson.
Is it really possible to do this on all guitars?
My guitar is a cheap one, and i find it REALLY difficult to make that pinch harmonic- tobb314th December 2008
hey I love this one
but I cant find any basic harmonics lessons. I know how to do one but I can nearly hear them. sry for me bad eng 
I hope u understand 
sdicker228th January 2009Where can I learn pinch harmonics. I don't know how to use them or how to even do them?
thefireball11th March 2010This one's a killer! It's hard to hit those pinches everytime! But it's fun, nevertheless!
- thefireball13th March 2010
It's so cool to have such control over pinch harmonics! They squeal at my command! I have never played a song with so many pinches, so when i get this down, i can pinch the strings til they scream "OW!"
Christophe17th March 2010Wow, this is brilliant, I love PH as much as you Trond I think ! Wonderful melodies
- thefireball21st March 2010
I think I'm getting the pinches down, but having trouble with the arpeggios.
- thefireball28th July 2010
You make this look so effortless.
Daniel Realpe23rd September 2010very useful!
- arpejoes14th December 2010
Nice lesson and very tasty!
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Hi all :) Pinch Harmonics is one of my favourite little techniques to do on the guitar, and by adding just a few pinches here and there, you can really spice up any old boring riff or solo.
With this lesson, i wont go into the very basics of pinch harmonics. This lesson is more about how you can easily use (or over-use as i have done in this vid:) pinch harmonics in your melodies or riffs.
If you have just mastered pinch harmonics, hopefully you will pick up an idea or two on how to further use them. Like bending, vibrating or sliding the pinches.
BPM: 150 (With a half-time feel)
Tuning: E standard
I have included 4 backingtracks and a guitarpro file.
Hopefully this will inspire more pinch usage for some of you :)
Enjoy! :)
-- Trond
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