Are dead note and palm muting same??

[prmtherocker]

Are they same or different?? If different how to do them separately??

[bertie]

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

[fretmeister]

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

[frankus]

I thought dead notes were the Al Di Meola thing where the note is muted by the finger that just fretted it.

[erictheweary]

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.

I think that ^

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.

[DLM]

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.

[frankus]

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!

[erictheweary]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_note

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_mute

Thus, dead notes can be played with palm muting!

yes, but palm muting doesn't make a dead note! That is, dead or palmed depends upon how much pressure you use and then there are other ways to make a dead note ( fretting hand damping in partic).

If you look at the notion section in that wiki entry on palm muting it still gives note values eg E F F# G etc ( albeit in tab form) to the palm muted notes - dead notes don't have a value in this way, they are just marked as x.