Palm Muting

Grandpagotgame · Post by **Grandpagotgame** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:37 pm

Does Dave slights palm mute during Loving Wings? That's what it sounds like to me, or is it just the way his guitar sounds?

Dheibs · Post by **Dheibs** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:52 pm

ya he does...watch the gorge DVD

DMBGuru · Post by **DMBGuru** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:29 am

Yes, if you can get the video of him playing on Jason Mraz's set, you can very easily tell that is palm muting pretty much the entire song.

little ants734 · Post by **little ants734** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:48 am

does he palm mute anything else, i know he does a little on satilite but anything else.. or does he just lift his fingers up for everything else?

DMBGuru · Post by **DMBGuru** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:44 pm

In the intro to Minarets old school style when it starts out really quiet he palm mutes.

mrjones · Post by **mrjones** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:56 pm

what is palm muting? ive had some friends describe but they dont describe it well enough

czech · Post by **czech** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:07 pm

hold your palm against the strings near the bridge with the strumming/picking hand.
Just think Metalica.

DMBGuru · Post by **DMBGuru** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:33 pm

It has to be very near the bridge, or you'll completely mute the sound out altogether. If you have it so that part of your palm is actually touching the bridge then you'll be able to maintain a sound, but a slightly muted sound, which is what you're shooting for.

DJR · Post by **DJR** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:48 pm

you'll hear it a lot more when dave does solo stuff - you hear it sometimes when he plays the stone solo

acusticdude · Post by **acusticdude** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:39 pm

I've noticed that he palm muted alot in the earlier days. I wish I could remember the show, I think it was in '92, it seems like he was palm muting every song. Personally I have always relied on palm muting as a crutch when I can't play something clean, but it is a cool sound anyway

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:08 pm

He palm mutes for LIOG. He still does the palm muting intro to Minarets, I got a recent one from 2 years ago with a long palm muting scat intro.

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:14 pm

little ants734 wrote:does he palm mute anything else, i know he does a little on satilite but anything else.. or does he just lift his fingers up for everything else?

He does on true reflections during the verse.

little ants734 · Post by **little ants734** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:07 am

i dont think he does a palm mute in LIOG, or at least in the version that i see, he just lifts his fingers up.. just like he does in ants marching

DMBGuru · Post by **DMBGuru** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:28 pm

little ants734 wrote:i dont think he does a palm mute in LIOG, or at least in the version that i see, he just lifts his fingers up.. just like he does in ants marching

You're right. It isn't palm muthing on LIOG from what I can hear.

justinandimcool · Post by **justinandimcool** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:50 pm

urrr I still can't figure out how to do it
How is it supposed to sound? Is it supposed to sound like "chica chica"? Cant you just do that by using your fretting hand? Or am I missing the whole point of palm muting?