basically im newish to bass and need to know the correct way to play dead notes

i am more into playing rock style bass so i mainly use a pick

i need it to learn a specific song

thanks

With a pick, mute the string with your fleshy bit at the pinky side of your hand.

The closer to the bridge your muting (fleshy bit of your hand) is, the more note will sound.

You can also just attempt to play harmonics in a non-harmonic producing area of the string, if you know what I mean. Much deadness will occur.

Season to taste.

it depends what you mean..

jadesmar's advice is correct for playing muted/damped notes.. i.e. you'll hear the pitch but the sound decays a lot quicker than normal because your hand is absorbing the energy of the string

the other kind of 'dead' notes are ones where all you hear is a percussive click... and for those you pick as normal but you lift your fingers so the string is off the fingerboard but your finger is on the string... so you're effectively plucking a string that's damped by your left hand

will record you a snippet of each when I get home

cheers for the replys

well at first i was using the way that cowsgomoo explained by just leaving my finger on the sting but with it off the fret

i have tried the way that jadesmar has explained as ell i cant decied which to use

i think 1 jademar said comes more narually to me

cheers for the replys

well at first i was using the way that cowsgomoo explained by just leaving my finger on the sting but with it off the fret

i have tried the way that jadesmar has explained as ell i cant decied which to use

i think 1 jademar said comes more narually to me

they sound a lot different to each other, so it's handy to be able to use both or a combination of the two

this is muted with the left hand
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cows/deadnotes.mp3

and this is the right hand:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cows/mutednotes.mp3

...this is muted with the left hand
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cows/deadnotes.mp3

and this is the right hand:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cows/mutednotes.mp3That is some clean, tight playin', Man!

Joe