This special palm mutes?

[Timmmm]

Hi,
i heard this kind of palm mutes quite often now (whitechapel), but i always thought, that this is their guitarsound, now i think it´s probably, just not playing power chords as palm mutes, but another chord instead.
Here is a perfect example:
please go on the myspace site of the band oblige and listen to the song "run and you ..." (first song)
then at 0:36 they play a riff with some "normal" palm mutes and at 0:42 they switch over to these other palm mutes which i mean.
(listen , and do not skip to the passages, cuz the shitty myspace player gets the time false then)

Now how is that done?


Thanks

 

[JonWormwood]

It's the dissonant chord + triplets

 

[GarethSE]

They're just half-baked diminished chords.

If you were to play a diminished chord in standard tuning it would be something like:
d|-7--
a|-6--
e|-5--

If you were to play that same chord in drop d it would look something like:
d|-7--
a|-6--
d|-7--

Now shift that down to the first fret...:
d|-0--
a|-0--
d|-1--

When most bands do this it tends to sound like they're only using the bottom two strings, so it would probably look something like this in context:
d|-------------------------------------|
a|-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000--|
d|-111-111-111-111-000-000-000-000--|

Hope that's helped.

 

[Metaltastic]

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