How to Play a Lead Guitar Pinch Harmonic

Video Transcript

"In this lick, a very, another common more old school type rock lick that's kind of resurfaced in new metal prominently, but also in some more popular rock is using the pinch harmonic or also called a artificial harmonic. A natural harmonic is simply going, where you're playing over the string, over the fret but not actually picking on the fret. You're picking over the metal part of the fret. The artificial harmonic is where and there's two different techniques I use to achieve this, like say I'm playing on B. You can take, what you do is you take your thumb and basically with the side of your thumb and on your picking hand and go. And what you're doing is creating a higher octave of the note and you're getting what's called a pinch harmonic because you're pinching your finger against the string, hence, so that's why they call it a pinch harmonic. And I'll be showing some examples of how that's used on different strings and with the different contexts of licks."