losthighway wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 5:19 pm
you can end a song with one at band practice and make the drummer smile.
This is Not Crap. This is King Shit
When my current band started playing, the bass player insisted I solo in a song. As an act of protest, I hammered out the squeakiest, squealiest, most incomprehensible bullshit solo. He went for it, so now I do "squealies" in about half of our songs.
NC for providing me with inspiration to solo, and the occasional "WHAT THE FUCK" from someone in the audience when I rip in.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:44 am
by chexmixbreath
Are those pinch harmonics during the chorus of “Breadcrumb Trail”? Or are they regular harmonics like during the verses but with distortion?
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:58 am
by MRoyce
In a metal-riff context they can be fun. Let there be squeelies:
That 80s hard-rock thing where every free space is filled with them is not cool.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:43 am
by Adam_I_III
Bob Mould has pulled off (ha!) some good ones. Godflesh?
I've never managed to incorporate them into anything useful, although they are obviously great fun. Even more fun with a locking to trem which is a bad sign usually
Pure :WF:
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:00 am
by kicker_of_elves
numberthirty wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:14 pm
The idea that a technique, by it's very nature, could be "Crap..."?
That is pretty squarely over in "Blockhead..." territory.
Might as well start a "Toggle Switch Flipping..." /"B-Bender..."/"Neck Bend..." C/NC
You seem nice.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:06 am
by penningtron
losthighway wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:07 pm
I was all on board for "no technique can just be crap".... and then I thought about slap bass.
nah.. slap bass in a Sly Stone and P-Funk context is already better than any of this cheese metal shit.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:09 am
by motorbike guy
A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:45 pm
Rarely tastefully applied, but when they're right they are fucking right, so NC.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:45 am
by first2letters
chexmixbreath wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:44 am
Are those pinch harmonics during the chorus of “Breadcrumb Trail”? Or are they regular harmonics like during the verses but with distortion?
Pretty sure all of Slint's harmonics are natural harmonics that sound the way they do thanks to a combination of distortion and deft finger placement. The ones on "Breadcrumb Trail" (in my dumb, limited experience) are technically pretty easy to play but really hard to get right.
chexmixbreath wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:44 am
Are those pinch harmonics during the chorus of “Breadcrumb Trail”? Or are they regular harmonics like during the verses but with distortion?
Pretty sure all of Slint's harmonics are natural harmonics that sound the way they do thanks to a combination of distortion and deft finger placement. The ones on "Breadcrumb Trail" (in my dumb, limited experience) are technically pretty easy to play but really hard to get right.
From the looks and sound of this play along?
I'd buy that it was what is in red.
Also sounds a lot like the natural harmonics/Boss Heavy Metal combo that turns up from time to time in Godflesh.
Re: C/NC: the pinch harmonic
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 2:21 pm
by Kniferide
How are you supposed to do a Hard-Rock High-Kick without a pinch harmonic?
