Up and down palm mute.

[Ricky_Himself]

I'm not a beginner or anything, but I've always palm muted by doing downstrokes. I've noticed that if you do up and down strokes you can obviously palm mute ALOT faster. How do all you guys palm mute, and what is your technique for up and down stroke palm muting because my pick always gets "caught" so to speak in my strings..

[C.O.A.]

when i palm mute using alternative picking, i kind of angle the pick in towards my picking hand. this helps with the pick getting stuck in the strings and i can pick faster like that. when you angle the pick, it will sort of "glide" over the strings. when you start to get the hang of it, you can start to gallop and that opens up another door to creating riffs.

[punkrocker-182]

When You Hold Your Hand Farther Away From The Bridge You Get A Chunkyer Juciey Sound.

[LewsTherin]

What I did when I started learning U/D palm muting is I started on just one string, and worked on it till I got it clean. Then, I moved on to two strings, and worked on that till I got it snag-free, then I went up to three strings (which Im actually still working on).

Worked pretty well for me. And like ILikeIbanez said, try holding your pick at a slight angle so it moves over the string more smoothly.

[big val]

Worked pretty well for me. And like ILikeIbanez said, try holding your pick at a slight angle so it moves over the string more smoothly.

That works for me too, and building it up a string at a time is good too. Also, as well as building up the strings, start off slow and build up speed too.

[WindowLedge]

When You Hold Your Hand Farther Away From The Bridge You Get A Chunkyer Juciey Sound.

pwn'd by the caps filter

Practice at low tempos and work up, like everyone else said.

[Bob555]

I hold the pick so that it seems like I'm trying to cut the string with the pick, so I string almost completely perpendicular to the string. That way you won't get it caught because of the rounded edges

[Mattypoo27]

thats how i do it too

[StormX]

when i palm mute using alternative picking, i kind of angle the pick in towards my picking hand. this helps with the pick getting stuck in the strings and i can pick faster like that. when you angle the pick, it will sort of "glide" over the strings. when you start to get the hang of it, you can start to gallop and that opens up another door to creating riffs.
Understanding the English language FTW!

It's alternate, not alternative.

[Kurrpt]

dude, his post was still 1000 times better then yours :lol:

[nailed to the x]

try to use a thin pick for better alternate picking.

[LewsTherin]

Understanding the English language FTW!

It's alternate, not alternative.



ommfgz, sum1 lyk, made uh mitake! o noes!

[ingraman]

Actually it's faster to use a hard pick for alternate picking. Thin picks are great for strumming though.

[Vitriolic Rage]

I tend to downpick most of the time, whilst palm muting, unless I'm tremolo picking something.

[Epicurus]

Hmm I dunno what my technique is. It's good though apparently.

[StormX]

ommfgz, sum1 lyk, made uh mitake! o noes!

That wasn't a mistake, that was just his stupidity, I've seen him post and call it alternative picking before.