hello everyone and welcome to pmt college powered by professional music technology my name is lee
fuji i'm here today with musicteacher.com and in this video we're going to look at the technique
of palm muting palmuting is a great technique to add to your repertoire if you're learning any rock
punk metal or any other music where you need some cool muted textures all the tones you're
hearing in this video are coming from my sugar provocateur which is plugged
into the black star ht20 mark ii which you're hearing today running on the overdrive channel
and my voice today is being recorded with the road go clip on microphone so part muting is a
technique that's fairly easy to learn and you should be able to pick this up pretty quickly
it's a great way to add some different textures to your riffs be that chords
single notes whatever you want to do with it there's a bunch of cool things you can do and
i'll give you some exercises in this video as well so you can sit down and practice this technique
but first of all let's break the technique down so when you hear palm muting it sounds like this
so what you're hearing there is the sound of my guitar but it's fairly
muffled and muted if i play that without palm muting it's going to sound like this
so what i'm actually doing is at this point of the bridge right here where the strings come over the
saddles now this is dependent on the guitar you play because different bridges will look slightly
different but what i'm looking for is the point where the strings come over the bridge saddle
once i've worked out where my strings cross my bread shadow i then want to use the side of my
hand so right here even though this technique is called palm meeting i'm not actually using
the palm of my hand i'm using sort of like the side of the heel of my hand and what you want to
do with that is you want to place it exactly at the point where the strings cross that saddle so
if i play my open string now with my palm in place what you're going to hear is my open low e string
but it's going to sound muted but we're still going to hear the note
this is true if i do fretted notes as well
now you'll know when you're doing this wrong because if your palm
is too far forward it's going to sound like this
i'm sort of losing that note definition there you want to
get it exactly at the point where it comes over the saddle
if you're not muting enough you're just going to have the string ringing as normal
so getting in the right place is very important in order to get that chunky
palm muted sound so let's look at some quick exercises you guys can use to work on your
palm muting skills so the first one is pretty much what i just played there
i'm basically just playing an open low e and the third and second fret
and all i'm doing is just playing each note eight times but what i want to do is palm mute that
this is a great way to start getting your palm in the right place the second exercise
is then i'll do that same thing with a power chord so this is going to be really useful
if you're playing punk music or metal or rock anything that you need that chunky rhythm sound
so to do this we're going to do the same notes but with power chords
but my palm mute now is going to be across all three of the low strings so the e a and the d
and i'm going to be widening my pick stroke here so i'm going to be doing a much wider
more aggressive pick stroke you may find it slightly easier to down pick
this whole thing and play a little harder as well
the third exercise is going to be alternating between a chord that is not palm muted
and some single notes that are palm muted so i'm using the same chords again
but what i'm going to do this time is i'm going to play the chord then i'm going to do
six par muted root notes from that chord so the root note being the lowest note of the chords
so if we're thinking about this in terms of timing i'm playing the chord on the one
and then the single notes are starting from the two so it's one two and three and four and one
so the one beat is the chord that is accented that's the one you're playing without muting
now the main thing to note with this is as i'm playing the chord i'm moving my hand away from
the strings to enable it to ring and then i'm going back to that mute point for the single notes
now what you're going to see there is a slightly over dramatized movement of the
hand i'm intentionally moving it further away to emphasize the point that you do move your hand
for that technique you don't have to move your hand as far away from the guitar as i'm doing
it there and the fourth exercise i'm going to show you is going to be picking some single
notes out of some power chords so i'm going to be using these power chords here so i'm going to be
doing the seventh fret on the a string and the ninth fret on the d which is an e5 power chord
and i'm also going to be doing the fifth fret which is a d5 and the third which is a c5
so what i'm doing there is i'm playing each of those shapes with my left hand
but i'm picking the notes low high on the beat so it's low on the beat high on the off beat so
one and then repeating that on each beat so it's one and two and three and four and
i'm actually doing a down stroke on the beat and a nap stroke on the off beat as well
you can do all downs here if that's easier
again you can alternate that to suit whatever works best for you you can either do down picks
or alternate picking i like to do alternate then i'm moving down to the d5 chord on the second bar
then the c5 and the d5 you don't have to play it at this speed either you can play this much slower
that's a great exercise there for getting control over your picking hand when you're
palm meeting across different strings at the same time so there are four exercises
and a breakdown of the technique of palm muting for you guys to get stuck into
let me know down below in the comments how you got on with that and also let me know if there
are any other techniques or tips and tricks you want to see us break down in these videos
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