Glorious (Parachute Band) + Palm Muting

Anyone heard of the Parachute Band? They're from New Zealand, and some of their songs are pretty great. I think they might have some downloadable samples of their full songs on their website (do a search for it), under 'worship resources', or something like that.

Here's one song which is almost entirely based on a riff played on the lower strings of the electric. I included the chorus at the end for you to sample too.



Notice that the intro and chorus riffs are picked normally, while the verse requires palm muting - although the same effects and notes are used, the muting changes the sound quite abit. Here are some pictures to guide you along if you're not familiar with palm muting:

Not Palm Muting: the side of my hand is resting on the bridge here, and the strings aren't touched and muted. Some bridges might not allow you to do this though (i.e. if you touch the bridge, you touch the strings).

Palm Muting: the side of my hand gently rests on the strings near the bridge. By doing so, the vibration of the strings is slightly dampened.

Another view.

Tabs
Intro/Chorus:
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-2-2-2-4-6---------------------------------2---
-----------4-4-4-6-7--2-2-2-4-6--0-0-0-2h4---4-

Keep repeating the above, and play the following to enter into the verse:

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-2-2-2-4-6---------------------------------2-2-
-----------4-4-4-6-7--2-2-2-4-6--0-0-0-2h4---0-

Verse
Same as the above riff, but with palm mutes:
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-2-2-2-4-6---------------------------------2-2-
-----------4-4-4-6-7--2-2-2-4-6--0-0-0-2h4---0-

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-2-2-2-4-6---------------------------------2--
-----------4-4-4-6-7--2-2-2-4-6--0-0-0-2h4----

Prechorus:
G#m F# C#m E

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You spelt your url wrong on this video. haha.

user said...

Its actually spelt wrongly in ALOT of videos.. :S

tellu4wat said...

are the tabs correct? it sounds like u played the A string of the second fret twice only..Am i right? anyway thanks for the tabs!=D i just wanted to learn it the way you played it.

Unknown said...

hey what key is this in? because i really like this riff and i kinda wanna use it for our services.