Chords for Richard Gilewitz A 12-String Harmonics Lesson

Hi, this is Richard Gillowitz again here with D'Addario and Planet [Em] Waves and speaking of Planet Waves
I'd like to talk about this little cable here and my end pin jack
It's a [E] circuit breaker cable and the nice thing about this little [Gb] feature on here is it's a little button
And if you press that in it activates the [G] pickup and the guitar which I'm using [N] this LR bags M1
magnetic pickup right now and
What I do is I?
Pop that out [B] and when I do I can pull the plug [Bm] and I've got no problem with a
Pop that will make you a [E] permanent friend with the sound man, so what I'll do is.
I'll switch over to this
[G] 12 string guitar
_ [A] this happens to be a new breed love signature 12 [G] string they were kind enough to make for me and
so [Em] now I can take this [C] and pop that in the sound [A] hole turn [Eb] that on and
_ I'm good to go so
_ _ _ One thing I'd like to talk about on the 12 string is this particular
model that breed love made for me I've been
_ [Eb] preferring as I usually do on a 12 [E] string a
particular set of strings that the Dario has called the ej [Ab]
37s
And I helped them to design that and starting from the first string up.
[Bb] That's a 12 the low bass.
I believe goes through 53
_ But the particular trick about this is on my fifth [Eb] string octave
I have a 22 wound string
[Bb]
Then I believe my low sixth string octave is a 30 wound
[B] But if you're hitting the fourth string octave [Bb] and you hit a high sounding note like that
[F] That's exactly what I do not want when I'm [Eb] hitting my fifth string
I want more of a thump or a thunk there [Ab] because I think that's more the nature of the instrument
[Em] So when I had this guitar designed I was using a jumbo body
The same pickup this m1 pickup and then with this set of strings on [Bm] there
It's a little bit heavier gauge than maybe normally comes on a 12 string, but then I like to pitch the whole guitar down
One and a half steps sometimes I'll go down two full steps.
It can get a little [Bm] dark there, but in particular
I like to go down maybe one one and a [Eb] half steps
_ _ _ _ _ And that's more the nature of the instrument that I'm after more of a rhythmic kind of propulsive sound so
_ _ Interesting thing about
[N] This 12 string is when I play my [Gb] harmonics.
There's a certain way.
I like to try and bounce them
[Eb] _
Where and the way I equate that is when I play a note
The instant I strike it with a finger or a thumb I
Act as if I guess an analogy would be if I ignited the string like a hot stove
So the instant I touch it I want to release my finger
Obviously if I release my finger too soon
I get a note if I keep it down too long I get kind of a thud so
How you target the release time is crucial?
[Ebm] _ _
So just pretend as soon as you strike it you're igniting that hot stove
so [E] there's a tune a friend of mine go Scrivener wrote called minuet for the [Bm] back roads and
There's a great example of [G] how to use the [Eb] harmonics in there and just with some simple forward rolls and a couple of right-hand
Positions I'll show you how this works here, so if I'm going _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ [C] So I just thought I'd [Bb] take the tune to that point
[B] Because I wanted to point out that as that tune
progressed [Eb] with the harmonics
_ _ _ It starts off with my fingers in this second position [Bb] where [Ab] index middle and ring are on strings four three two
[B] and [Eb] I just do a
_ _ P I am I
_ _ _ _ Back and forth a few times so I have P.
I am I am I?
And every time I hit a note I
Release that I'm laying my finger flat to purposely create some mutes
So [E] that all these harmonics don't jangle [G] together, and it gives a [Abm] little bit of a [Eb] separation in between _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then when I go to my seventh fret I use [Bb] my index finger, and I want to target my low bass
so there I'll change five to six and
_ _ _ Back to my twelfth [Eb] fret and _ then when I shift my right hand down back into position one on strings three two one I _
_ _ Try and get my thumb to go five four three so that you
_ _ You'll notice when I come down with my thumb on the third note
I'm targeting that octave string the third string octave there to get kind of a ping a higher note _ _ _ _ _ _
And then I use middle and ring
_ _ This sound kind of like church bells on the second and first string there _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then I do the same thing at fret seven and then when I come back up on the third pass through _ _
_ The [B] first four notes are sixteenth notes is counted one he and _ _ _ _ _
Then a couple of pinches after that, but when I do the sixteenth notes you'll notice
I've got no choice, but [G] to lay my finger [D] flat
It's almost just too much to release it and bring it back down in that time frame
So I don't mind a little bit of a thud there
It also gives a little bit of a depth to the harmonics
[Gm] _ And it allows the second and first strings to chime out a little bit more so it's nice to almost
Accidentally [B] create that 3d effect because you're forced to thud it here on
Five four three then bring the chime out [E] and you can see how it builds
[Gb] Once again watch the angle of your [Bm] finger watch the timing of the release and see if you can use harmonics in the tune of your own
_ Good luck to you
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