Pinch Harmonic Alternative Picking

[paddybodenham]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh... please please help me!

I'm playing a piece where you need really fast pinch harmonic picking. I can do pinch harmonics fine when I'm attacking on the downstroke, but cant do it at ALL on the upstroke.

Is it possible? How do you do it???

Thanks

[jarviss]

just really "choke up" on that pick so that
the index finger acts like the thumb on the other
side of the pick when you up-pick?

*jarviss runs and gets guitar to check it out*

[paddybodenham]

So it's the index finger? I was trying to do it with my ring finger!

Can you do that then? What type of music do you play?

[Skull Dragon]

yikes! the ring finger? I would hate to see the way you hold that pick!

Cant you just do 2 quick downstrokes?

[lalimacefolle]

the famous bassist has a technique where he picks the strings while his ring finger touches it... Moving his fingers along the strings changes the pitch of the harmonic... I guess that you could transpose this technique to the guitar pretty easily.

[paddybodenham]

Hmmmmmmm. Single strokes would be a little hard, the piece isreally quite quick..