whats the difference between PALM MUTE and MUTING NOTES?

Question

i was reading a few guitar tabs and saw that the legend gave a symbol for palm muting(p.m.) and muting notes(x) . is there a difference. if so explain

Answer 1

There is no difference, since you are talking about guitar. If it was on a wood wind or something like that, there wouldn't be a palm mute, it would just be muting,
With guitar, palm muting is just putting your palm softly over the string, and basically that's the same thing as muting.

Answer 2

It's kind of ambiguos really , "Palm Muting" can mean both, and "Muting Notes" can mean both. There ARE 2 types of muting involved, Palm - where your picking hand fleshy part (side) muffles the strings beind the pick and in front of the bridge , and general muting which is a bit more difficult and comes with practice - the act of actually using fingers on the fret hand to muffle unused notes to prevent noise or strings from ringing out , as opposed to the other which is done for it's disired force effect. Cheers.

Answer 3

The mute signified by an X is done with your finger on that string but not pressed down to the fret. The palm mute is using your palm to mute one or more strings at a time.

Answer 4

as far as my experience goes, muting is where you put your finger lightly over a string to mute the sound, whereas palm muting is where you put your palm over the strings by the bridge and it gives a clicky effect. the harder you push, the clickyer it gets.