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!

[barney.]

so whats dead note then...iv never heard of that before..

[thereformant]

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.

[barney.]

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...
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10909049