Ghost Notes

Hi, I'm quite new to this forum, so I'll introduce myself.

I'm 13, student and I play the guitar. I love mainly metal music and J-Rock stuff, visual kei and that sort.

Well, I need help.

I've been playing Vermillion, Pt. 2 (Slipknot), not that I like them or anything, but my friend had the tabs, anyway, for one of the guitars, there are two bars with ghost notes (The rest of the song is repeating.)



And the problem is...

How do you play (0), for a ghost note?

Thanks for the help. :]

-SezoShawn

I remember having an argument once with another guitar player about ghost notes. We never agreed and I beleive both of us were right.

A ghost note in a tab can be either a note that is played softer than the other notes or it can also be an optional note. A note that it wouldn't matter if you played it or not.

You still find these two definitions all over the net. I'm curious has to where music schools stand on this.

Either way, if I saw a (0) in a tab, it would tell me that I could play the open string ( 0 not being a fret but rather the open string ) if I wanted to or not. It would also mean that I can play it but it must sound softer than the other notes that are note Ghosted.

Like I said, I've seen both definitions for ghost notes over the years.

Thanks for the advice, sounds pretty correct to me. Although, I'll stick to the one where it can either be played or not played because it is quite hard to play a ghost note softly over and over again.

-SezoShawn