how do i get this sound (natural harmonic in Heresy)

[guitar_demon]

on the pantera album cowboys from hell number four heresy the intro firr has a kinda metallic type sound to it someone told me he is not fretting it exactly on the frets but almost on them is this true?

[PantericA]

yo dude. exactly. it's called harmonics. place your finger over the fret, touching the string but not the fretboard. the song your talking about starts with a 5th fret harmonic on the low E string. hope this helped.

[guitar_demon]

oh well i do know what harmonis are but they just did no tsound like them to me hmm well thanks for the info any way

[CtHuLhU DaWn]

Low E-555-444-333-222-222--333-444--555 Natural Harmonics

[º¿º]

is that kinda like a finger mute? it doesnt sound like a metallic sound it sounds more like a palm mute but its on 1 string....am i doing it wrong??

[guitar_demon]

i cant get the harmonic on the second fret were should i place my finge more twords the middle?

[mrweijia]

metallic sound huh, try picking more towards the bridge, where the strings are tighter. i dont know if it'll work on an electric, but on acoustic, the sound becomes mroe metallic/twangy

[Midnight]

it's just a harmonic.. it doesn't matter where you pick or where your finger is in the fret.. almost every fret has a harmonic to some extent. just remember dimebag's using a different setup than you so it's going to sound different.

[ADE]

U must find the exactly place to put your finger over the string in 2a fret, the armonic is near the aehm... iron... not over

[ADE]

and if u have any problem, try to pick the string with more strengh, when u understand the exactly way to do it, begin to pick the string with less strengh