Originally posted by Dejan Sajinovic
...I´ve heard that you can get different tone depending on how you hit ´em but I ain´t got a clue how to do it.

It's where you pick the string. Say you hit the Artifical harmonic in between your two pickups, you'll get one type of artificial harmonic sound. Then if you hit the artificial harmonic above one of the pickups, you'll get a different tone.

I'll try a diagram. --- string, [---] pick up, X is where you hit the harmonic.

Here's a diagram, hopefully you can make sense of it.

Say you play a harmonic like this.
e:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
b:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
g:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
d:---[-----]-----X------[-----]-----|
a:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
e:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|

That would be one tone of a pitch.

Say you play the harmonic like this.
e:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
b:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
g:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
d:---[--X--]------------[-----]-----|
a:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|
e:---[-----]------------[-----]-----|

That would be a different sound. Hopefully that makes sense, but what I'm saying is you can get a different tone of pitch from where you pick the A.H on the string. You just have to find the right spot to get the sound you want. Have fun. Others may have different techniques to achieve this but this way works very well.

P.S. The best sounds are in between the two pickups, just move it around and you'll find different pitches with those harmonics.

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 03-31-2003 at 05:14 PM]