Kristofer Dahl26th January 2008Excellent coverage Joe
- this is a perfect excercise as nailing tight and slow palm muting can be quite tricky!
Pablo Vazquez26th January 2008Excellent work and very interesting lesson!!!
Toni Suominen26th January 2008This is a very important lesson, great work Joe!
Dejan Farkas26th January 2008Excellent lesson
Mark.26th January 2008Cool ! I really love this kind of rhythm
Muris Varajic26th January 2008Great riffing Joe!!
Bogdan Radovic26th January 2008Great rhythm lesson Joe !
Maximus26th January 2008Great lesson for developing solid technique.
David Wallimann26th January 2008Great one Joe, thanks!
shellshock191126th January 2008Sounds like an awesome intro for a Dream Theater or Symphony X 13-15 minute song.
Joe Kataldo26th January 2008Thanks Guys, well a little bit boring for a song :-) but this exercise is really a "seeders" practicing it in a way or another will inspire you...anyway going further I will introduce power chords, dyads, left hand muting, ecc. trying to make the exercise as musical as possible, so keep practicing because we have a lot to cover!
Thanks Again
Joe Kataldo
Hisham Al-Sanea26th January 2008nice riff joe ,good work
- Joe Kataldo26th January 2008
thanks!
Nick32527th January 2008cool
Fran27th January 2008Good rhythm and muting exercise
Smikey200627th January 2008cool stuff
The Uncreator27th January 2008Sounds great, sounds like a cool interlude for a massive epic song breakdown.
- Joe Kataldo28th January 2008
Thanks, with a bit of creativity can be transformed in a song...Thanks.
Ivan Milenkovic29th January 2008Great one Joe, I can see that you are really trying to cover all the aspects of rhythm playing in these series. Keep rockin' man
- Joe Kataldo12th February 2008
Thanks
Capt.Z19th February 2008Thanks for the lesson.
It really helped my palm muting- Capt.Z19th February 2008
by the way, when i learned the lesson, i realized
u played some parts that werent tabbed. 
Danilo Capezzuto22nd February 2008Great rhythm,good job Joe.
d.- Joe Kataldo22nd February 2008
Capt.Z Uhmmm are you sure? I was reading the part printed from GuitarPro while I was recording, the same file you can download
Any way let me know where and I'll check! 
Carlos Carrillo22nd February 2008joe!!!great lesson!!!very creative!!!thanks
- Capt.Z3rd March 2008
oops. sorry...
- Joe Kataldo7th March 2008
It's Ok
Nick Kellie11th March 2008very good advice and great lesson Joe!
Nighthawk126th April 2008What would be metal without Palm Muting???Great lesson...well explained thx
- Joe Kataldo8th May 2008
Thanks
- arpejoes9th March 2010
I loves the Name Called "Joe".
And Here is a Great lesson. It is very useful for Beginners to become master. - Joost4th January 2012
It took a lot of time for my wrist to adjust to the palmmuting but I finally got it down. Thanks!
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Hi everybody, in this second lesson of "I Got Rhythm Guitar" we will take a step back to the basic of Rock/Metal Rhythm Guitar, and we will start with a technique that every good guitar player should know: Palm Muting.
What this techniques does is cut-off the tail of one or more notes, resting slightly the palm of the hand on the bridge where the string cames out from the saddle, in a karate chop style.
Starting from this position, moving the hand toward the neck will give you a more percussive sound,
moving toward the bridge, will give you more sustain and less muting. Experiment whit little adjustment until you will find the right sound for you!
This Lessons Will Improve:
Palm Muting
Right Hand Stamina
Time Keeping
Palm Muting Primer
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I've tried to make the next exercise as musical as possible, but it's no more than a rhythmic reading, based on eight-note and sixteen-note, the most common in rock/metal riffing. In the next lesson we will move on something different: "Robben Ford Blues Style" then we will go back to "left hand muting"
Recommended Listening
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Palm Muting is so widely used that every good guitarist is a "Recommended Listing" anyway, Metallica, Dream Theater, Pantera etc. etc.
Pro Tips
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Angling a little bit the pick in combination with this technique will give you a huge muted hard rock sound.
Joe Kataldo
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