Palm mutes are important as they give more expression to both your chords and solos. To do a palm mute, place your palm near the point where it meets the bridge and strum/pluck. Try it out several times to find your 'sweet spot' - it depends on the size of your palm, the type of bridge, etc.
This video demonstrates several practical applications of palm mutes. You can use it to make the groove stronger by muting the bass notes of chords, or build up to a climax. You can also use it to give more expression to your soloing. Read here for more, including some close-up pictures on positioning your palm.
2 comments:
When palm-muting, can you 'up strum'? or is palm muting for picking and power chords?
Having real problems with this...
Thanks
Yep, cuz sum palm muting, involves alternate picking, its kinda hard, but its cool... a lot of it is practice. At first i always think about it, I do it easily now no matter how hard i try to do a bad palm mute. PRACTICE all I can say.
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