Dead notes are produced by string muting technique. String muting is one of the most useful techniques which you can use to develop a good groove. Bass guitar can be a very percussive instrument and string muting creates a percussive sound that can add a new dimension to your playing and bass lines.

Let's learn a new technique - palm muting utilizing dead notes. It will allow us to construct more interesting bass lines.

Lesson based on this amazing supergroup formed by very talented musicians, including Jack White.

New series covering Hardcore Punk rocker bands from many different cities.

Rythm and lead in the style of Dead Letter Circus.

Get some percussion tricks under your belt

Using common notes between two chords belonging to different scales to allow a smooth passing between them when improvising in the blues and dorian modes.

There are two kinds of approximation and they are both chromatic, the approach above and the approach below the note that is considered the melody.

My thought process when targeting the "right notes" in a fusion context.