Stunt Guitar Part 2 - Wylde Palm Muting
I’ve recently been revisiting one of my long-time influences. A Mr Zakk Wylde. When I was 17 I joined my first regular gigging band and despite not having the long blonde hair, I wanted to be like this guy. Although at the time I didn’t have the chops to fully back up my, legs apart "Zakk stance" but I used too (and still do) think that the solo in "No more tears" is one of the best things since sliced bread. Therefore I have mixed a lesson on the basics of "Palm muting" around one of my favourite guitarists.
For the video and following tab I’ve detuned my guitar to "Dropped D" tuning. This basically means that you need to take a reference note from your D string (3rd) and then wind down the bottom E until it matches. I means you can play little bottom 3 note barre chords with just one finger.
You’ll need to experiment with the amount of pressure you use whilst muting the strings It is also helpful to attack the strings just that little bit harder with the pleck.
The following is a tab for the riff I mess about with at the end of the lesson.
E |----------------------|----------------------|
B |----------------------|----------------------|
G |----------------------|----------------------|
D |-----------------0----|----------------------|
A |--0----2----3---------|--3----2----0---------|
D |----------------------|-----------------3----|
E |----------------------|----------------------|
B |----------------------|----------------------|
G |----------------------|----------------------|
D |-------3----0---------|--0-------------------|
A |-----------------3----|-------0----0----0----|
D |--0-------------------|----------------------|
E |----------------------|----------------------|
B |----------------------|----------------------|
G |----------------------|----------------------|
D |-----------------0----|----------------------|
A |--0----2----3---------|--3----2----0---------|
D |----------------------|-----------------3----|
E |----------------------|----------------------|-------|
B |----------------------|----------------------|-------|
G |----------------------|----------------------|-------|
D |-------5----0----0----|--3----0----0----3----|--2----|
A |-------5----0----0----|--3----0----0----3----|--2----|
D |--0----5----0----0----|--3----0----0----3----|--2----|
Written by Alex on Tuesday 5th April 2005 at 1:41am and posted in Learn To Play, Lessons, Techniques
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