Technique ; String Control: Left Hand Muting (watch & learn)

[Elantric]

Technique ;  String Control: Left Hand Muting (watch & learn)

I find the Booker T and the MG's  first tune on video below is a complete course study in left hand fretting technique and its contribution to supplementing the rhythm section with added echoed beat pulses.


But check the close up shots of Steve Cropper on 1st song performed live

Particularly starting st the 3:00 minute mark, but you owe it to yourself start it from the top to get in the groove.





Steve Cropper with a white 1962 Fender Telecaster


(some of thsse videos he is using a factory fresh with original Chrome metal Bridge PU shield that covers the bridge, preventing any palm muting on top of the bridge.

[Hurricane]

Can't get too much of Booker T & The MG's .

Caught there act many times in the L.A. area in so. Cal. In Memphis a few times as well .

Some times they fronted a whole evening for several different acts  they we so versatile .

[krysh]

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Steve Cropper with a white 1962 Fender Telecaster (factory fresh with original Chrome metal Bridge PU shield that covers the bridge, preventing any palm muting on top of the bridge.

nope, he had taken it off, you can see it around min. 2

[Elantric]

And more essential String Muting techniques
Time to learn string mute control - a crucial playing technique if you ever play in loud live band.

http://www.wikihow.com/Palm-Mute


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wikiHow to Palm Mute
Two Methods:Using Your Strumming Hand to Dampen the SoundImproving Your SoundCommunity Q&A
Palm muting is a commonly used guitar-playing technique in which you use the side of your strumming hand to mute the notes being played. The purpose is to cut out extra string noise when you're playing or to stop the sound completely.[1] You can also use the technique to dampen the sound rather than mute it, depending on where you place your hand.[2]


Method
1
Using Your Strumming Hand to Dampen the Sound
Image titled Palm Mute Step 1
spaceplay / pause escstop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari)
↑↓volume mmute
←→seek  . seek to previous 12...6 seek to 10%, 20%, ...60%
to Palm Mute
1
Place the fleshy side of your palm lightly on the strings. Pretend your karate-chopping the strings. Don't actually hit them, but that shows you what part of your hand should be hitting the strings. It should be the outside of your palm.[3]
When you first put your hand down, it should be perpendicular to the strings, not laying flat against them.
Slide the hand back as close to the bridge as you can-- this makes it easier to learn.

Image titled Palm Mute Step 2
spaceplay / pause escstop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari)
↑↓volume mmute
←→seek  . seek to previous 12...6 seek to 10%, 20%, ...60%
to Palm Mute
2
Keeping your palm down on the strings, strum normally. Use your fingers and light wrist movement to strum while still keeping everything muted. You want to work on keeping the same weight on the strings as you strum, moving only up and down, not against the strings, as you pick.
It is often easiest to start by just picking one string. As you get used to keeping it palm muted, play a two-string chord, then a three, and onward.
Image titled Palm Mute Step 3
spaceplay / pause escstop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari)
↑↓volume mmute
←→seek  . seek to previous 12...6 seek to 10%, 20%, ...60%
to Palm Mute
3
Adjust the pressure of your palm to adjust your sound. A lot of palm muting is about the feel on the strings, since the actual skill is not very hard. The harder you press, the less you'll hear the note of the string and more you'll hear a dampened, percussive sound. If you are too light you'll just hear buzzing as the strings struggle to move. The perfect sound is a deadened, but still melodic, note that ends quickly after you strum it.[4]
With dampening, you should be able to hear the pitch when you pick the string. Try picking the strings one at time to make sure you can hear all the proper pitches rather than a dead plucking sound.[5]
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4
Experiment with hand position. You can change how much your hand dampens the sound by moving it back and forth on the strings. Moving closer to the fretboard dampens the sound more.[6]
However, as noted, you should keep your hand as close to the bridge as possible if you still want to hear pitch.
Image titled Palm Mute Step 5
5
Adjust your hands to sound certain notes. If you want the first string to sound, lift off that part of your hand. You can test to make sure it's sounding correctly by strumming it. Practice lifting off each string in order. Once you've mastered the technique, you can control which strings are dampened and which strings are not.[7]
You'll be lifting from your wrist, rather than from your fingers. You can curl your wrist up and down to open up or mute certain strings with some practice.

Method
2
Improving Your Sound
Image titled Palm Mute Step 6
1
Tune into the bridge pickups of your electric guitar. Since you're picking and muting near the bridge, these pickups will get the best, thickest sound for you.
For a more distorted, buzzy sound, use the neck pickups.
Image titled Palm Mute Step 7
2
Use humbucker pickups whenever possible. These pickups will grab a lot of that deep, chunky tone that you want when palm muting.
Image titled Palm Mute Step 8
3
Work on moving in and out of palm muting mid strum. Listen to old Green Day tracks, for example. They are simple chords and structures, but the ability to go quickly from palm muted to open strings allows him to texture and layer the guitar part uniquely.
Learn to start palm muting, then slowly raising your palm off. Become your guitars volume knob, switching fluidly.



must watch here
http://www.wikihow.com/Palm-Mute

[Elantric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Perkins

When Johnny Cash moved to Memphis after returning from Germany in 1954, Roy Cash, Johnny's older brother, introduced him to Grant, Kernodle and Perkins. The four began to get together in the evenings at Perkins's or Grant's home and play songs. It was during this time that they decided to form a band, with Grant acquiring a string bass, Kernodle a six-string steel guitar, and Luther Perkins buying a somewhat-abused Fender Esquire electric guitar from the O.K. Houck Piano Co. in Memphis.[5] The guitar had been modified by a previous owner, and the volume and tone controls did not work.

"Boom-chicka-boom" style[edit]
Since he could not control the volume of the single-pickup instrument, Perkins began the practice of muting the three bass strings (E, A and D) with the heel of his right hand, much in the style of Merle Travis, and scratching a rhythm pattern (as heard on Sun Records recordings prior to 1958). This pattern developed into a more defined, varying 1/8-8/5/8-8 picking (with random syncopation) on later Sun recordings and for the rest of Perkins' career.

In late 1954, when Cash got an audition with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records, he brought Perkins, Grant and Kernodle along to back him instrumentally. The experience made Kernodle nervous, and he ended up leaving before the session was over, with Perkins and Grant providing the instrumentation.[6]

Perkins, as a member of the Tennessee Two (later, the Tennessee Three, with the addition of drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland),[7] toured with Cash and appeared on most of his recordings. He was well known for his laconic, focused demeanor on stage. He was often the target of jokes by Cash, who would make comments such as "Luther's been dead for years, but he just doesn't know it".[8]