I've been playing guitar since last December, and I'm having sooooo much trouble with palm muting... I just can't seem to figure out how to do it. Everyone keeps saying "Ohhh it's so easy!" and i'm just like "uh.. then show me." and no one can show me really how to do it like i would like for them to.... Can you kind of tell me how? I've tried and tried and tried some more. I just end up doing it so no sound comes from it... it's really frustrating. ((Btw, I'm a 14 year old girl))
2007-06-13 15:35:47 · 4 answers · asked by roxy81492 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
try this...hold the pick with your thumb and index finger, of course...
hold it to where only a little bit of plastic is actually picking the strings...enough to strike, but trust me, CHOKE THAT PICK
step 2: while holding the pick in this fashion, hold your other 3 fingers like you are doing a "karate chop", and lay your pinky and the side of your hand as close to the bridge as possible
*** and keep it there!!!*** if your hand is right where the bridge meets the strings, or just a little out there, it doesn't matter how heavy your hand is laying on those strings
step 3: practice galloping your low string, in 3's and 4's, and downpicking like a metal loving punk as fast as you can
you'll get it...and email me with any questions, please
I'd love to help spread my knowledge
2007-06-13 15:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Leech 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the best ways is rest the heel of your palm. i.e. the crease right after the wrist and the fleshy part of your palm on the top (low E) string. If you have heavy hands, less, small hands a bit more perhaps, but we're talking not very hard at all. Its a sensitivity thing. Once you learn to rest it there, pick using yr. wrist, not yr. elbow, remember to play relaxed, and ease or apply pressure by tone. How you back it off and put it on is by exerting pressure down onto the strings or by backing off. You barely have to put any work into it at all; this takes no strength whatsoever. Also, the distances we're talking here as far how far down you're going to be pushing down is measured in 1000ths of an inch, so you just have to develop the skill by doint it 'til ya get it right, and you'll know it by the sound.
2007-06-13 23:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by Prop Forward 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all in the motion, Don't hold the strings down with your palm. Just give it a quick slap to get your sound. It'll give the note a jerk before it cuts out.
2007-06-13 22:38:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just slightly press down on the strings so you wont get a sound but instead you get a flat noise.
2007-06-13 22:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋