A Couple Questions?

How do I do a "pinch harmonic"?


and what exactly is a trill, and how would I do one?

If I remember correctly, you hold the pick with the tip of it VERY close to your fingers. Then, you pick a note, and your thumb should immediately touch the string causing a pinched harmonic.

I may be wrong, but I'm going by a fuzzy memory.

look on youtube, theres probly lots of tuts... actually i know there is, cuz thats how i learned =p

Skold is pretty much right. You can just play a note... After a little experimentation, the B (7th fret) of the low E string is a good choice. Play the note, then tap the string with your pick or finger. Doing this softly and quickly enough will give you a much higher pitched sound. That should give you the idea of what it does, and for actual playing technique do what Skold said.

k, a pinch harmonic is basicly picking the string, the imediatly hitting it with ur thumb, lightly tap it. leave almost no pick showing, ao tht if u look at it at eye level, ur thumb covers it, but if u turn it up the u can see the pick. the play. a trill is just hammering off and pulling on 2 or more notes fast.

When I do it, its when I pick a note and my skin hits the string with the pick.
It's so fun to do but it DOES take a bit of practice.

its tons of fun also somthing to try if u dont got whammy, take one hnd and push down on the body of the guitar, and push up on the neck, the harmonic gets lower its awsome, like a whammy, detunes everything.

I always play pinch harmonics in fast solos by mistake but the end result is pretty cool.

@Ironman: a TRILL is two, three or more notes played right after the other
nevermind me just watch


I love playing those pentatonic trills just like SRV.

i think this could be considered a trill lol, look at this guys vids, he OWNS



if i could play like tht....i could...make music lol.

What I got out of "trill" was:

It's like a serious of hammer ons and pull offs, really fast, sometimes a bit slower,

Like:

A: 7p5h7p5h7p5h7h8p5h7h8p5h7h8p5 etc.

wow those vids are nice!

i seem to get the idea of all these techniques. thanks to everybody

now i just need to practice I guess. I still feel ages behind everyone else here. and all those videos do is discourage me hahaha.

Dont get discouraged those guitar players are intermediate-advanced. I could tell you that wasnt too hard and it doesent have a lot of trills. Guitarboy described it well when he wrote the tab.



The beggining of Thunderstruck is the longest trill I've heard.

hm I like any solo my Iron Maiden for trilling particularly Dave's form Number of The Beast

@GB

wow. "It's like a serious of hammer ons".

lol ye tht guy is freakin amazing, thunderstruck isnt a true trill, its hammering on then pulling off to the open and doing tht, it dowesnt sound like a trill, but it is/

i can play Thunderstruck, just not very fast. I've never knew that was a trill though.

it's not a trill, it's a constanat tremolo picking tecnique. If you want to look up trills Black Sabbath is a good song with trills in the main riff.

No, trilling is hammering on and pulling off. Thunderstruck would indeed be one example. DarkRiff, Tremolo picking is just picking rapidly.

@DArkRiff could you give me an example of a Sabbath song with em?

trilling? like in every solo? iron man? theres tons of trills, hard to find a song w/o 1.

i think i get the idea of a trill now thanks everyone.

Did you guys ever see this guy?

sweet arpegios, lol i love this guy, ccurses every other word...hes the perfect rapper. aand hes a rangers fan, porb from ny.

hahhaaha i hate kirk hammett too.

There's always a reason why these guys aren't famous.

Also, his vibrato isn't that good. :P

LOL @ THE PRANK CALLING HAHAHHAHHAHA

That was fuckin' funny.
"If you don't like it... FUCK off! John Petrucci's over that way!"

how do u do a good vibrato?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUZ7K5SXxQ

idk how to embed =p

@Dark Riff I wasnt 100% sure that the intro to Thunderstruck was a trill but in one video (the Donnington one) he plays without picking the strings so that made me believe it was a trill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MM0CK6PAwo

look at 0:15
If thats not a trill then I have learned something new.

Edit: I have learned something new: its not picking nor trilling its just plain old hammer on and pull of.
I actually saw it again and it looks like he never picks a note for like a while.

So it is a trill? I'm confused.

i thought tremolo is alternate speed picking while changing notes.

thunderstuck is pure hammerons and pulls, its acctually a finger excersize tht was on the b and e string. it sounded better on just the b, i do it both ways, just to help hammer ons and pull offs, no picking.

Thunderstuck isnt a trill
its just a long legato line

a trill is a series of rapid hammerons and pulloff between 2 notes

Yeah, you're right. Thunderstruck is just legato.