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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 08/09/05
Posts: 8,360
06/17/2016 12:07 pm
Hey & welcome to GT!
Originally Posted by: fedomhow can I get those artificial harmonics on the low strings screaming in the style of zakk wilde or john petrucci?

Here are tutorials aimed at that technique, also called pinch harmonics.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1722
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1520

Gain on your amp obviously helps, but notice that most of it is physical technique. Practice slightly adjusting the amount of contact your thumb makes with the string after picking. I've noticed that a heavier, thicker pick is also better for this because it provides more precise control of when, where & how the pick strikes related to your thumb grazing the string afterward.

Hope this helps. Best of success with it!
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