It's very easy to get a lot of unwanted noise when bending strings on the guitar. You must be able to mute out adjacent strings to the one you're bending.
Some things that can help is to always use your picking hand to mute out all strings lower than the one you're bending. That means if you're bending the G string, your hand should be aiming to mute the E, A, and D strings. If you're bending the high E string then you'll be trying to mute out the E, A, D, G, and B strings. Having at least one finger on the fret hand muting the adjacent strings helps too. Let's take your index finger for example, and you're bending the B string. Your index finger needs to be barely touching the G string AND the high E string. These ideas will make a lot more sense after you watch this video:
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The palm mute is a heavily used technique in metal and rock music. It creates a heavy, chuggy, chunky bass like tone to add some extra oomph to the sound of your music.
To make a palm muted sound, you will gently rest the side of your pick hand against the strings right where they connect into the bridge.
Then, just pick like you normally would. Only now, the side of your hand is resting on your guitar strings.
It's important to not move your hand too far to the right. If you do, you will risk removing your hand from the strings and not getting any palm mute sound.
Moving your hand too far to the left will result in a less bassy sound, create a tin like sound, and you can actually change the pitch of the note you are trying to mute. If you use a left handed guitar, just reverse the right and left directions just mentioned. You can mute all the strings, but to my ear muting the lower strings (E, A, D) sound best. Of course, if you have a 7, 8, or 9 string guitar, the strings below the E string are also well suited for good sounding palm mutes. Watch the following video to see the palm mute being used:
Looking for more control over your picking when you play guitar? Here are 6 exercises to help with just that!
For the first four, make sure you use strict alternate picking to get the most out of these. Everything should be picked down, up, down, up, etc.
These next two exercises use paraddidle picking. The picking pattern goes down, up, down, down, up, down, up, up, repeat.
For more in depth explanation of these exercises please watch this video:
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