[Brucehum]

How do I mute power chords?

I have just tried to play "Smoke on the Water" (yep, that classic every guitar player plays) and I am unable to get a 'clean' sound (strange to want a clean sound with power chords, what I mean is I get a lot of extra noises that shouldn't be there). I have no idea how to mute.

I've heard about palm muting and fret muting. How you do those? I

I have tried palm muting the chords:

o - mute 3 - mute 5 - mute o - mute 3-mute 6-mute 5-mute but don't manage to get it to sound right. I manage a 'righter' sound when I don't try to mute at all, but, it has some very high sounds around.

[Matty22]

Palm muting you rest the side of your hand against the strings near the bridge, lightly, muffling the strings

Muting with your fretting hand you strum the chord, then lightly lift of the strings..

When playing a power chord, in that 355xxx shape mute the higher pitch strings, with your pinky, if you play the chord using 3 fingers, or with your ring finger, if you play it with 2 fingers..

Theres a lot of practise in how heavy to mute, which mainly just comes from listenning to the original song

[allthumbs]

This one doesn't seem right o - mute 3-mute 6-mute 5-mute. That 6 should be a 5. Are you using heavy distortion for your power chords?