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Most players don't bother to worry about which harmonic they're getting (and in turn what note they're actually playing). They just "pinch and pray" - they fret the left hand note, use the pinch harmonic picking motion, and hope to get lucky and land on a harmonic pivot point. In my experience, this is about a 50/50 shot, at best. 50% of the time you will not hit a good pivot point, leaving yourself with a muted thud instead of an epic squeal.
Honestly, truly mastering pinch harmonics for the entire fretboard is very time-consuming. Instead, my advice is to get accustomed to finding the 5th and 6th order harmonics for frets 2-5. This is where they are most usually incorporated. As you get higher up the fretboard, pinch harmonics become tend to be used less. At the same time the pivot points tend to all fall into a smaller and smaller length of string over the bridge pickup; so you are more rarelikely to "get lucky". The most common point of failure is a bad picking hand technique. Either there's not enough or too much thumb pressure, or the timing is off with the thumb contact being removed before the string is picked. Sometimes, the thumb touches too "wide" of an area on the string, extending too far from the pivot point and muting the string.
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