[JessThrasher]

Anyone here have your own signature technique that sets you apart from the rest? If so, what is it?

[eddiez152]

I like shredding finger pickin style

[agent0064life]

I play with my tongue

[Dewy]

Pick squeals or aka pick harmonics. I just call it "pinching" the note. Billy Gibbons used it very noticably in "LaGrange" and Zakk Wylde over uses them often (but I love it).

I also use a lot of "lower" 5ths on my "Power chords" to make for a fuller sound. Example C power chord would be root at 3rd fret A string, with the 5th (G) at 5th fret of the D string. To that I add a High C (5th fret, G string) and a Lower 5th (G) at 3rd fret E string. Adds a nice fat guitar sound to a one guitar band.

Most of "My" sound comes from my self teaching and unorthodox approach to playing the guitar. i.e. Big hands allow me thumb over notes my peers can't reproduce... fat fingers easily holding down multiple strings.

And the fact that after years of my pick rotating in my hand I eventually come to prefer the two "short ends" of the pick, rather than the long end intended for striking the strings. Easier to "pinch" the notes that way... and two out of three chances of the pick rotating into a comfortable position, rather than rotating out of the only position I use.

[namiguShin]

Originally Posted by Dewy

...I also use a lot of "lower" 5ths on my "Power chords" to make for a fuller sound. Example C power chord would be root at 3rd fret A string, with the 5th (G) at 5th fret of the D string. To that I add a High C (5th fret, G string) and a Lower 5th (G) at 3rd fret E string...

How do you fret this? I.e. how do you fret 3rd fret? If I bar it with index finger, I overdo it and 1st string rings, or I don't do it well and 2nd string is muted...

Just wondering, if you bar it then I know the answer... PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!

All best

[Dewy]

Fat first finger bars third fret for the lower GC combo on E&A strings, Third and fourth fingers get the "higher" GC combo at the 5th fret D&G string. Notice its just the "top" of the "A Form" C major Kirk showed us in his Caged lesson.



CAGED lesson

I also use the top half of the "D Form" to make higher sounding power chords sound fuller.

[namiguShin]

Sorry... I have obviously misunderstood something in your previous post... Now I know what you meant... You're actually playing an inversion of a power chord... Cool!

[Dewy]

Yeah, trust me... if I can do it, anyone can. No amazing feats of guitar prowess here... just tune them and bend them...

[JessThrasher]

Originally Posted by Dewy

Pick squeals or aka pick harmonics. I just call it "pinching" the note. Billy Gibbons used it very noticably in "LaGrange" and Zakk Wylde over uses them often (but I love it).

I also use a lot of "lower" 5ths on my "Power chords" to make for a fuller sound. Example C power chord would be root at 3rd fret A string, with the 5th (G) at 5th fret of the D string. To that I add a High C (5th fret, G string) and a Lower 5th (G) at 3rd fret E string. Adds a nice fat guitar sound to a one guitar band.

Most of "My" sound comes from my self teaching and unorthodox approach to playing the guitar. i.e. Big hands allow me thumb over notes my peers can't reproduce... fat fingers easily holding down multiple strings.

And the fact that after years of my pick rotating in my hand I eventually come to prefer the two "short ends" of the pick, rather than the long end intended for striking the strings. Easier to "pinch" the notes that way... and two out of three chances of the pick rotating into a comfortable position, rather than rotating out of the only position I use.

Dimebag darrel, Herman Li, and Joe Satriani use pick squeals too.

[PurplePeopleEaters]

Originally Posted by hermanli_ibanezshredder

Dimebag darrel, Herman Li, and Joe Satriani use pick squeals too.

A majority of metal musicians will use pinch harmonics every once in a while and they're especially popular with bending the string or using the whammy bar.