https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:35:19 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378813 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:06:10 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378813 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378811 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:31:44 +0000
I've been practicing it a bit each day since. As with most things, I'll practice and practice and one day I'll get that touch and be able to feel it. Second nature after that. :D]]> Guitar Players Discussion rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378811 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378771 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:21:51 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378771 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378712 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:07:30 +0000 on this song, you also mute right handed simultaneously, and pick across the strings instead of down into them when you're muting.
if you just mute with one hand or the other, you don't get as percussive an attack.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378712 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378705 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:05:49 +0000
@jason brann: you mean you mute them between your fretted strings and the pickup where you're playing the rhythm? Doesn't that affect key or tune?]]> Guitar Players Discussion rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378705 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378702 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:15:50 +0000 when i mute, i generally use both hands unless one's doing something else.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378702 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378693 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:30:31 +0000 Listened to song
Looked at the chords Em7 and A
Thought about how to do it (waste of time)
Just started playing and tried to sound like the recording
Look down at hands and see what I was doing

I was using a combination of muting. Some palm muting but what I found worked with it was bad technique. Play the open chord, roll your wrist a little so the strings go from your finger tips (correct technique) to the pads of your fingers. This allows you to use those fingers to mute the open strings as well as the ones you were holding down while applying correct technique. Does that make any sense? Correct technique to play the chords, poor technique as a tool to mute the strings as well as the open ones next to them.]]> Guitar Players Discussion TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-378693 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-43396 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:05:14 +0000
Here's the original (I think) studio version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoA5cqDSasM

I've always played this using open chords. Standard issue Em7(0-2-2-0-3-0) and A(X-0-2-2-2-0). I mix up which strings I play, depending on what I want to hear at any point in time. sometimes full chords, sometimes not.

So, the question, in two parts, is this. How would you do the palm muting, and how would you suggest a less experienced player go about it? Yes, it may be the same. Here are some initlal options.

A: It's a right palm mute all the way. Learn how to palm mute while playing a faster rhythm and quit bothering everyone for once. :evil:

B: Drop guitar down 1/2 step or whole step and employ barre chords, leaving you with a potentially easier left hand mute. (well, left hand muting easier for me, anyhow.)

C: Play the Em7 and A at the 7th and 5th frets repectively, and use left hand muting.

D: Use left hand mute on standard tuning, but just strike the fretted strings.

I did try C and hated my tone or the voicing. Ugly stuff. It might have been just me?

Thanks for reading and considering the question(s).]]> Guitar Players Discussion rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/rhythm-muting/#post-43396