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Anyone good with harmonics?

Jaxler said:
it would be better if you dont need to hold one fret down and put your finger over a different fret to play it.

I assume you don't know artificial (tapped) harmonics then? To get a tapped harmonic for any note, just fret the note and tap the string 12 frets higher. To get a C, press the 3rd fret on the A string and tap the 15th fret, or to go up an octave, 5th fret on the G string and tap the 17th.
 
The chart on the far left shows a dot for each of the playable harmonics. Those dots are color coded and correspond to the notes on the other two charts. To find out which note a given harmonic will produce, you find out what color the harmonic is, using the first chart, then you find the note of the same color and the same string on one of the other two charts.