How to Palm Mute on an Electric Guitar
Listen how palm muting sounds with a distorted guitar:To perform palm mutes place the heel of the palm of your picking hand near the spot where the strings go into the bridge, you can slightly press against the strings to get sharper tone and decrease the sustain farther:
Now play your theme while keeping the palm of your hand in that position:
In printed guitar tabs palm muted notes are marked as P.M. characters over the lines representing the strings:
In plain text tabs palm mutes also can be marked as the "x" character that precedes a fret number:
1|----------------
2|----------------
3|----------------
4|----------------
5|--x5-x5-x5-x5---
6|----------------