Description
Before we dive into all the fun musical examples, let's really put the technique of palm muting under the microscope and take a closer look at how it works.
As you probably already know the basic idea is to plant the right side of your RH on the strings back here by the bridge. It's generally too hard to cover all six strings, so it's most common to just mute the bass strings. But there can definitely also be times where it makes sense to palm mute the treble strings, although that is a little more rare.
If you get too far away from the bridge, you start to lose the pitch of the note and eventually you only have the attack. The closer you get to the bridge, the more pitch you'll get, and less muting. So you have to find the sweet spot for everything you play, cause it's different for every part and every player what sounds right. This is quite easy in itself, but the tricky thing about it is that it somewhat limits your right hand picking motion. You can only strum to the extend that you can rotate your fingers and the base of your wrist.
But this limitation is not that big of an issue since most of the parts that we typically want to palm mute are somewhat subdued anyway. And when they're not, there's a really cool workaround that I'll show you later on in this tutorial.
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