Lately ive been getting into some andy mckee and antoine dufour stuff which often involves a lot of harmonics. The problem im having is that i can't get my 5th fret harmonics to ring out as loud as the rest. There's also a technique antoine uses in "Ashes in the Sea" where he hits the 12 fret with his index finger an gets the harmonics to sound that way, which i cant do either. Is it the guitar that makes the difference? Or maybe some longer fingernails/fake nails would help? Any advice would be great


Heres a link to the video of ashes in the sea. The harmonic part im talking about is at about 0:57 and some other places too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcanWkRbnwQ