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Rick Collins

 

From:
Claremont , CA USA
Post  Posted 28 Dec 2001 1:32 pm    
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New Years resolution:
To practice harmonics the first fifteen minutes of every practice session,___no exception. The finger harmonics on 5,7,&12 (Rose City Chimes, etc.) come easy. But I anticipate palm harmonics, like a Navy F-14 pilot anticipates a night carrier landing. I begin thinking about the harmonics at the beginning of a song and think, "hear come those harmonics", right up until I have struggled through them.

Does one really have to be cross-eyed to play good palm harmonics? I can't look at the fret where the bar is positioned and the fret where I'm picking at the same time.

I am convenienced that those recordings that have seemingly perfect harmonics are done with a group of coordinated musicians striking different size triangles for each note;___kidding of course.

Actually the F-14 pilot snags a cable more regularly than I hit a good harmonic.

Anyone got any new ideas on practicing harmonics?

Rick

[This message was edited by Rick Collins on 28 December 2001 at 02:37 PM.]

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Pat Burns

 

From:
Branchville, N.J. USA
Post  Posted 28 Dec 2001 1:49 pm    
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...get your wife to put on a yellow shirt and stand in front of you with a couple light batons to guide you into the right fret position...then you won't need to see both of your hands at the same time...
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Rick Collins

 

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Claremont , CA USA
Post  Posted 28 Dec 2001 2:35 pm    
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...get your wife to put on a yellow shirt and stand in front of you with a couple light batons to guide you into the right fret position...then you won't need to see both of your hands at the same time...

She's agreed to this Pat; but she also wants to wear those big earmuffs like the flight deck crew wears.

Rick
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