

First, you can try single notes and slowly progress to chords and scales. There are a few ways to practice ghost notes spanning from beginner to more advanced. When you see an X sign instead of a number on guitar tabs or a circle in musical sheets, that means you have to play a dead note or, with its other name, a ghost note there. Ghost notes are indicated with an X sign on musical sheets and guitar tabs. Your thumb will do most of the job here, slapping the lower strings and creating those percussive ghost notes.

You can slap the strings with your picking hand to create a percussive sound. Using them in-between chords will give you a nice percussive sound to embellish the piece you are playing.Īnother way is to use the slap technique to create ghost notes. When you keep on strumming, you will get the funky muted percussive sounds, which are ghost notes. While strumming chords, flatten your fingers and decrease the pressure on the frets, lightly touching all strings. You can use the same technique while strumming chords, too. Keep lightly touching the string to mute it and pick it up to create a percussive sound which is a ghost note. You can lift the pressure without taking your fretting finger off the string. One way to use ghost notes while playing a single-note melody is to mute the strings with the fretting hand in-between specific notes. You can deploy this technique to your single-note playing as well as chord strumming.įirst, let’s go with the single-note technique. There are several ways to play ghost notes on a guitar.

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