Pinch Harmonics

What's up y'all? I just hit a milestone here in the past day or so. I've finally figured out how to make my guitar squeal at will, I can't believe how long I struggled with the concept of pinch harmonics. I also noticed that I could get two different types of "squeals" off of the same note and string depending on where I picked the note. Are there more than just two? Also, where are good places to put in the harmonics in terms of a run? I like pinching a note on the high E string, then hitting it again normally to start off a run. Any other ideas?

There are a lot of different pitches you can get, more than two, you just have to move your pick around and see where they are.
And your other question, when I do a run or something, I'll put them in randomly, but I very rarely start one off with a harmonic, but its up to you, it depends what your tastes are I guess.

Crumbs! I've replied to so many of this kind of harmonics thread that I've pre-written a reply, it's everything I know about harmonics. Url below.

The answer is that with practice you can play pretty big arpeggios even on single strings using pinch harmonics. Whatsmore there are some pretty simple ways to learn their positions etc. It's all below:

http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/trick.php?trick_id=5647

Just so I don't look smarter than I am no I don't know what all the notes are but they're great fun to piss around with!

If you want something to mess around with, try transposing normal harmonics. Pinch harmonics are cool and all, but you can't really control their note value. I mean, you can, but I've just gotten bored with them after a while. So, try finding harmonics that are low on the neck, and then transpose them in your chords.

For example, if you're playing something on the low E, you can create a harmonic by lightly touching the third fret and striking the E string as you would to normally play it. So then, if you play a chord somewhere on that string, stretch your pinky and hit the note three frets above the base note. You can control your harmonic's note value this way, and you can also bend or wiggle it without having to use a whammy bar if your guitar doesn't have a tremelo system.

Just something to try . . .

3 frets above = 2 octaves + major third. Useful interval.
Power to you but quite honestly I find pinch harmonics a lot easier.

I find I can conroll what pitch my pinch harmonics are. It just takes a little experimentation to see where the pitches are on the strings relative to where your fretting them.

Yes, pinch harmonics do rock. I remember how long it took me to figure out how to do them, and once i finally figured it out, it seemed strange that it could take so long to figure out such a simple trick. As to where to perform them, May sound strange, but i like hitting the 12th fret g, i think it sounds pretty cool.