I've found a better way of doing one of Doyle's harmonics tricks. On Jazz in the Box during the harmonics section of the piece, he plays the 12th fret harmonics on the 4th, 3rd & 2nd string simutaneously as a G chord harmonics, then hammers on with the index finger at the first fret on the same strings and slides up to the 2nd fret creating the illusion that the G chord harmonics is being slided up a step to a A chord harmonics.
Doing it this way gave me very inconsistent results. I found that actually hammering on a hair before the nut (fingerboard side) and then sliding up to the 2nd fret works every time and I can get the harmonics to ring louder than how Doyle does it (although it might be his intention not to make it ring as loud). It's a neat trick.
--Gordon Lau
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