Guitar harmonics - semi impro

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I have been working very intensely for a number of years on trying to become fluent in the use of playing harmonics with both hands. This is a semi improvised attempt to show what its about, using some other techniques such as tapping, picking and fretting together with the right hand and some use of my elbow to mute or dampen strings.
Not many people know that, with drop D tuning, it is possible to sustain every set of four adjacent notes in the key of D from D 12th fret harmonic to an A an octave and a fifth over it. I am still not entirely fluent in this as it is necessary to alternate which hands, which strings and which overtones are used to allow all to sustain at once. This is the biggest technical learning task of my years as a guitarist and something I hope one day to bring to a state of the art. I dont mean that to sound pompous; you can have no idea how much time I practice and how arduous and a tedious process that can be when the most progress you can make is from trying to concentrate on what you can't play... its the kind of life-theft that I can only excuse because of lock down!