Can someone identify and tell me how to create this high pitched squealing sound at the beginning and throughout the song?
ah, the famous pitch harmonic.
Zak Wylde is the master.
there are several ways to do this.
get the Zak Wydle whammy pedal to start.
turn evrything way up.
choke up on the pick and hit the string with the pick and part of the finger at the same time.
tweleve frets up from where you play a note lighting touch the string. you'll get an overtone.
the high volume should make that squeal.
or get the Zak Wilde whammy pedal.
I think.
Definitely pinched. As Dogbite said, brush the string lightly with the flesh of your picking hand immediately after picking the string with the pick. Use a floyd-rose or similar to go crazy while it lasts. :D
Dogbite
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. Zakk is an amatuer compared to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Billy is the master of the "whistle note". Listen to the solo starting around 2:30.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ANU8migRic
This is what this type of harmonic sounds like with much less distortion. To get this effect choke up on the pick with just the very tip showing. You can do it with either a downstroke or upstroke, but you let your thumb brush the string after you pick it on a downstroke, or your index finger with an upstroke. It takes practice and timing to really pull the whistle notes out. It also helps to give the strings a little vibrato or wiggle with your fretting hand.
Billy Gibbons doesn't need a distortion pedal like Zakk. :wink:
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
Wes. you are right!
I bow to the real master Gibbons.
dogbite
I was just kidding. But it is hard to beat LaGrange as an example of these harmonics.
Now check this out, let's hear what some shredders sound like playing LaGrange live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_nYeEj9BU
Now, let's check out the real deal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yCKoqRXC4
Ha Ha Ha, those shredders don't sound so hot, do they?? They better go back to their distortion and compression pedals. They ain't got no business tryin' to play the Blues. 8)
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
Both Gibbons and Wylde use the technique extensively in their playing - and both sounds very different, but both are totally cool! I'll take 'em both!
Gibbons plays them more subtly than Zak. Zak is pyrotechnic. Gibbons squeezes them out in just the right places.
I have gotten Gibbons' sound by choking way up on the pick so it barley shows. then when I hit the string the flat side of my fnger nail hits the string just after the pick does; then that harmonic comes out.
