Learn Guitar Pinch Rhythm and Palm Muting Techniques
Welcome back to the Guitar Tricks Channel. We got here tips for the week and your lesson for the week right here. It should be for the metal or genre. I like to call it Pinch Rhythm which I kind of made up last week. I googled it and I didn’t see it any where so, I’m turning it right now I think. Anyway, here what it is, it’s a combination of the pinch harmonics throw on them with the rhythm playing.
You’re going to grab a pinch harmonic all the way but you can do a little twist with your thumb like we did in lesson 6 on Pinch Harmonics while you’re doing the rhythm that adds a little high and low harmonic to the rhythm so it sounds like this
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What I’ll do is I’ll play in an example of using it straight and an example of using it with the little twist, the little pinch rhythm. Here’s the straight.
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Now, if I add a little twist to it to grab a little bit of the pinch during the rhythm it sounds like this.
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It’s a subtle change but it sounds cool. It’s almost like if you turn a walk pedal on but you leave the pedal down kind of opens up that little traveling sound, pretty cool stuff. It also ties in with our lesson which we’re going to do on palm muting.
Palm muting is really handy. It’s used in metal, country, pop, blues, funk and what I’m going to focus on here is the metal sound which is probably one of the most popular uses. We’re going to take this part of your hand, rest it right over your bridge with the strings come across and play as you normally would.
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After you go too far forward, it’s going to be muted out like that, and move too far backward and again two open. So what I’m going to do is slide back and forth until you find the right spot. I'm mostly using the low E, the A and the D strings with power chords.
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Now you can combine these with lifting your hand up off the bridge and putting it back down like this.
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That’s really cool effect and that’s kind of enticing to the riff pause playing at the opening of the lesson.
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Good stuff, palm muting, it happens in country, metal, rock, blues, and funk. Here’s an example, you might here them blues or rock like this.
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Or if you’re playing acoustic guitar, you can actually use palm muting, kind of up in the middle between the pick ups with acoustic guitar will be able to sound all.
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Kind of use it as a muting technique, also if you’re doing some kind of funky just picking single notes, you could use palm muting like this.
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Pretty cooler tool, you can use it all around and don’t forget, you can come on over to the forum at Guitar Tricks and post a request if you want to hear something or on the YouTube channel, just leave us a comment. You can Twitter us, we’re twitterable now. Also on MySpace, send me a message or comment and we’ll try to get a lesson out Taylor made for you. That’s right, palm muting. It doesn’t mean you have to be quiet.
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