Palm Muting?

LukinFan

So what's the secret behind this? Why can't I get it? Either it's too muted or sounds like crap when I do it. Please help!

ldatspj

Best way is to practice it switching between open chords and finding the right balance !! Not too hard not too soft!!! Like driving a standard car if u drive one!! And practice practice

LukinFan

ldatspj wrote:

Best way is to practice it switching between open chords and finding the right balance !! Not too hard not too soft!!! Like driving a standard car if u drive one!! And practice practice

Thank you - yeah, for some reason, I can't get that perfect in-between sound. I'll keep practicing!

DriftingByTheStorm

LukinFan wrote:

ldatspj wrote:

Best way is to practice it switching between open chords and finding the right balance !! Not too hard not too soft!!! Like driving a standard car if u drive one!! And practice practice

Thank you - yeah, for some reason, I can't get that perfect in-between sound. I'll keep practicing!

work on RITFW,
thats a REAL good one for palm muting.
you can pretty much PM the entire verse through the whole song and make it sound pree-cool.
try PMing the e chord, but then letting up a bit on the mute for the D and C.

or whatevs.

yah. practice.

LukinFan

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

ldatspj wrote:

Best way is to practice it switching between open chords and finding the right balance !! Not too hard not too soft!!! Like driving a standard car if u drive one!! And practice practice

Thank you - yeah, for some reason, I can't get that perfect in-between sound. I'll keep practicing!

work on RITFW,
thats a REAL good one for palm muting.
you can pretty much PM the entire verse through the whole song and make it sound pree-cool.
try PMing the e chord, but then letting up a bit on the mute for the D and C.

or whatevs.

yah. practice.

Thanks man, I was working on Wishlist. Tried it in the past and it beyond frustrated me. Been working on it some more lately and it sounds a little better, just not great.

mfc2006

just keep at it, Roger!

gimmesometruth27

watch james hetfield. he has one of the greatest right hands in music. watching him in old live footage was how i figured it out because i could not be bothered with paying for lessons when i was a broke ass college kid.

aside from that, just practice and keep at it.. you will have that "ah- HA!!" moment soon enough.

LukinFan

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all of the advice.

I was playing around with it last night and if I rest the side of my hand up against the saddle, it sounds pretty decent at times. Is this too far back to put my hand?

gimmesometruth27

LukinFan wrote:

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all of the advice.

I was playing around with it last night and if I rest the side of my hand up against the saddle, it sounds pretty decent at times. Is this too far back to put my hand?

no not too far back. i put mine just in front of the saddle. just be sure that the meaty part of the pinky side of your hand is what is doing the muting.

LukinFan

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all of the advice.

I was playing around with it last night and if I rest the side of my hand up against the saddle, it sounds pretty decent at times. Is this too far back to put my hand?

no not too far back. i put mine just in front of the saddle. just be sure that the meaty part of the pinky side of your hand is what is doing the muting.

cool - thank you

rollings

Is palm muting where you shut the strings up?

what the @%#@#*% is a saddle?

gimmesometruth27

here is as basic as it gets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIzB1KiJw0

LukinFan

rollings wrote:

Is palm muting where you shut the strings up?

what the @%#@#*% is a saddle?

the verses in Wishlist is palm muting

saddle:

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en ... =129&ty=69

LukinFan

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

here is as basic as it gets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIzB1KiJw0

sweet! thank you!

rollings

never knew it was called "palm muting".
or that it was a technique to "practice" or anything.

In order to achieve that sound, I would think its somewhat intrinsic that your hand "knows" it has to do something in order to stop the ringing vibration and sound of the strings, and/or to get that
choppy staccato effect. No?

LukinFan

rollings wrote:

never knew it was called "palm muting".
or that it was a technique to "practice" or anything.

In order to achieve that sound, I would think its somewhat intrinsic that your hand "knows" it has to do something in order to stop the ringing vibration and sound of the strings, and/or to get that
choppy staccato effect. No?

as far as I know, yeah

rollings

LukinFan wrote:

rollings wrote:

never knew it was called "palm muting".
or that it was a technique to "practice" or anything.

In order to achieve that sound, I would think its somewhat intrinsic that your hand "knows" it has to do something in order to stop the ringing vibration and sound of the strings, and/or to get that
choppy staccato effect. No?

as far as I know, yeah

I was playing today and noticed for the first time how much muting I do with the left hand.

am I cheating?

does it matter?

LukinFan

rollings wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

rollings wrote:

never knew it was called "palm muting".
or that it was a technique to "practice" or anything.

In order to achieve that sound, I would think its somewhat intrinsic that your hand "knows" it has to do something in order to stop the ringing vibration and sound of the strings, and/or to get that
choppy staccato effect. No?

as far as I know, yeah

I was playing today and noticed for the first time how much muting I do with the left hand.

am I cheating?

does it matter?

mute with the left hand? Your strumming hand?

DewieCox

rollings wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

rollings wrote:

never knew it was called "palm muting".
or that it was a technique to "practice" or anything.

In order to achieve that sound, I would think its somewhat intrinsic that your hand "knows" it has to do something in order to stop the ringing vibration and sound of the strings, and/or to get that
choppy staccato effect. No?

as far as I know, yeah

I was playing today and noticed for the first time how much muting I do with the left hand.

am I cheating?

does it matter?

There are certain instances where I feel like that's the appropriate guitar move, but it's kind of a different thing from palm muting.

rollings

LukinFan wrote:

rollings wrote:

I was playing today and noticed for the first time how much muting I do with the left hand.

am I cheating?

does it matter?

mute with the left hand? Your strumming hand?

No. the left hand is usually the non-strumming hand. the hand that presses down the strings.

rollings

DewieCox wrote:

rollings wrote:

I was playing today and noticed for the first time how much muting I do with the left hand.

am I cheating?

does it matter?

There are certain instances where I feel like that's the appropriate guitar move, but it's kind of a different thing from palm muting.

it's different,
but how?