dead note

Playing the same string that i'm about to hit. And then playing the note that i'm going to actually play. So with my plucking hand maybe i'll use my second finger to play the dead. Note.

A ghost note is a note which has little volume and it's easy to not hear it. It also can be so close to other notes that you may not hear it being there. A dead note is a note which is only percussive, not melodic. You can play one by muting a string on a guitar for example, and then plucking that string.

Dead notes are just notes that you mute with your fretting hand and marked as XXXX's on tabs. You just mute all the strings or a few that are next to each other and strum those strings.

Also known as “ghost notes,” they are used as an element of percussion rather than pitch when you're playing a bass line. Dead notes add rhythm to our playing and can dramatically impact the overall feel of a bass groove.

A dead note could be caused by a number of issues: saddle not seated in the bridge, nut slots not sized correctly for strings, bridge lifting, braces on the inside of the guitar coming unglued. Any of these issues can be remedied with a good set up or investigation by an experienced guitar technician.

The goal is to just lean on the string with enough force to mute (or deaden) it, but not enough to press it down and touch any of the frets. Once the string is muted, pluck it with your fretting hand. The resulting note should sound punchy, percussive and non-defined.

In popular music drumming, ghost notes are ones played "very softly between the 'main' notes," (off the beat on the sixteenth notes) most often on the snare drum in a drum kit.

What Are Ghost Notes in Music? Ghost notes are a form of music notation that represents rhythmic value but not pitch or timbre. Composers notate ghost notes in sheet music using an "x" symbol.

In music, notably in jazz, a ghost note (or a dead, muted, silenced or false note) is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played. In musical notation, this is represented by an "X" for a note head instead of an oval, or parentheses around the note head.

Dead spots occur on even the best of basses. They happen because all necks are flexible to some degree (even graphite ones). The wood that makes up the neck also has specific frequencies where it will vibrate to greater and lesser degrees in sympathy with the string and this is called 'harmonic resonance'.

So. See how my finger comes over it stops it from ringing.

A dead note could be caused by a number of issues: saddle not seated in the bridge, nut slots not sized correctly for strings, bridge lifting, braces on the inside of the guitar coming unglued. Any of these issues can be remedied with a good set up or investigation by an experienced guitar technician.