Ok, so I was playing something with dead notes, not the kind you make only with the fretting hand, but the ones where you pluck with your plucking hand while the left hand is muting the string.
I was just wondering about the benefits of using different strings to do this. I can think of 3 strategies:
1. Play the dead note on the string you last played a real note on.
2. Play the dead note on the string you're going to play a real note on next.
3. Play the dead note on the string that gives the sound that is most appropriate for the part of the song you're currently playing.
In my opinion #3 would usually mean on the E or B strings, since dead notes on bass usually aren't hearable with drums and they are usually louder on the low strings.
Of course you could just do this:
4. Just do the "fretting hand hitting the strings onto the frets but not in such a way as to make a note sound" method of getting a dead note. (I don't know if there's an official name for this - left hand dead notes?)
I guess another alternative is:
5. Screw it. Don't play them.
So my questions are:
-Do you do 1, 2, or 3?
-How do you decide between plucking hand dead notes (1, 2, and 3) versus fretting hand dead notes (4)?
-Do you ever alternate between plucking hand dead notes and fretting hand dead notes, either to add variety or get more dead note speed?
-All of these questions but for slap/pop method
-Again, when using slap/pop, do you slap or pop the dead notes, or alternate, or do what fits the song?
-Are there any other useful ways of getting dead notes?
I remember hearing some dead notes on a funk song that I couldn't figure out how to recreate at all! Maybe it was b/c of effects?
Yeah.
