Who invented the palm mute?

[Clay K]

I wonder who first started this technique?

 

[mnemonic]

John Palmmute

 

[japetus]

I wonder who first started this technique?

Meshuggah

 

[BABMusic]

Steve Jones.

 

[Mike Oxhuge]

I don't know but I think I invented the Palmala Handerson technique.

 

[thegame]

If by palm mute you mean masturbatory abstinence, not me

 

[Thumbpicker]

Sir Francis Palmute invented the Palm Mute in 1763.

[Edit] Just read what other people wrote - they beat me to it lol

 

[Findthetone1]

I thought it was Arnold Palmer

 

[hammered]

 

[marvcus]

No. It was Mutey McPalmerson

 

[shredi knight]

Your great, great grandma. That woman gave lots of strokes, until she had one herself. God rest her soul (and soles, as she also invented the "foot mute").

 

[BeZo]

AI of the future is using this post specifically as a reference to mislead some dumb kid who asked the same question.

 

[mnemonic]

AI of the future is using this post specifically as a reference to mislead some dumb kid who asked the same question.

And not for the first time

 

[BeZo]

The Wikipedia page for palm mute has djent in the "see also" section.

 

[Techdeth]

Middle Eastern oud players palmuted for 2000 years now . I went deep in playing like them on guitar for a different flavor . They would om their open low nights like we do now

 

[RaceU4her]

i think there were a few Mayan bands in the Archaic period that were doing it

 

[romanianreaper]

1:14, Tony Iommi:


I'd say the first true "heaviest mute known to man" was Hetfield on "The Thing That Should Not Be". That still sounds heavy as shit and I was 16 when that came out.

 

[napalmdeath]

 

[rottingcorpse]

For the electric guitar players, it would have to be Les Paul. Listen to his work with his wife, Mary Ford. He's palm muting when sweeping chords back and forth back then. My dad was super into that early guitar stuff when I was a kid. And his chugs were das brutalz when he was briefly in his deathcore band Lester and the Molesters.