--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:56 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:25 PM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> Yes, but played with each hand. And why do you call them > >>> "arfificial?" > >> > >> Because natural harmonics only occur at certain vibrational nodes > >> like the 5th 7th and 12th frets on open strings and therefore only > >> are capable of providing some notes. With artificial (or "pinched" > >> harmonics) you can produce any note you desire by fingering and then > >> doing a stroke and touching your harmonic with the left hand. > >> > > > > Except, as the video shows, this is right-hand touching AND > > plucking and the left hand is > > NOT fingering the string--it's doing a slur on a different string. > > And the sheet-music > > notation for that is "standard" since Tarrega first introduced it > > about 100 years ago, though > > he probably picked it up from some folk musician. > > Sorry, I haven't seen the video you're talking about, but technically > speaking (if I'm getting your description correct) that would not be > an artificial harmonic even though it is using the same technique.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZVS_70MbQ > > What was so amazing with Michael Hedges is that he played phrases > merely by hammering on and pulling off with the left hand and then, > at the same time, play some counterpoint entirely with the right hand > on the fingerboard. I understand. The technique has been around for a while. If you require a hammer-on withthe right hand, I don't have any examples handy, but the video above shows a duet between right and left hands with the right playing the harmonics on open strings. Eventually he started also doing this on a Harp > Guitar with sympathetic strings. More recently I've seen the Chapman > Stick evolve into the Warr Guitar which some players actually play > flat to the point where it looks like they are playing a keyboard. If > you've seen any the recent videos of King Crimson with Trey Gunn, > you've probably already seen this. > > There's a great video of Dweezil Zappa which used to be on YouTube of > the Dweez playing Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" while demonstrating > some effects software (IIRC at NAMM). Once you see him play it, it > actually looks easier than it sounds. There's also a video on YouTube > of Segovia playing his variations on a theme by Mozart where he does > some pretty wild pull-offs and hammer-ons. It's on my list of pieces > to learn. > If you can find it, get John Duarte's _The Guitarist's Hands_, which is a progressive series of exercises mostly for the left hand. I never went past level 5 out of about 12, and still had better technique than 99% of the guitarists out there. The highest levels include double string slurs with each finger working independently (e.g. quarter-note/thirds).
