Are they same or different?? If different how to do them separately??
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Are they same or different?? If different how to do them separately??
isnt the former an undesirable product of something not right on the fretboard, and the latter a technique to be honed ?
ie - you dont 'do' a dead note, but you can 'do' palm-muting - which is, to gently lay the palm of your picking hand on the strings very very close to the bridge, while you pick/strum, not so hard as to completely silence the strings
A palm muted note still has some indication of the note - it's just muted.
A dead note can be a rhythmic device that has no note at all, but can be used to keep time.
Dead note use in the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceiyvKwpRRo
Palm muting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUcMTRR9meQ
I thought dead notes were the Al Di Meola thing where the note is muted by the finger that just fretted it.
I think that ^Quote:
Originally Posted by fretmeister
as most of my time on guitar these days is taken up with ska/reggae/funk type rhythm playing there are parts I play where there are more dead notes per bar than notes. Anything that is palm muted I would still expect to make out as a note.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_mute
Thus, dead notes can be played in combination with palm muting! :)
I'd associate Al Di Meola with what he calls "mutola", or palm muting on alternate-picked lines.
back in 92 when I was studying with a pretty awesome guitar teacher - he showed how it was done on a finger by finger basis - pretty much blew my mind!Quote:
Originally Posted by DLM
so whats dead note then...iv never heard of that before..:confused:
to me a dead note is left hand muting and makes a "click" sound, so you rest your left hand across the strings without fretting anything and strike the string, whereas palm muting is a right hand technique that produces a muted note.
I think some of the other guys are talking about when you sund a note normally and then release the pressure on your picking hand to cut the note short. Note sure what that's called though.
is this it....i done this a while back by releasing the finger pressure after the note was sounded...Quote:
Originally Posted by thereformant
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10909049