Editing Palm mute (section)

== Notation ==
[[File:Backbeat chop.png|thumb|right|350px|The [[Ska stroke]] {{audio|Skank on Em64.mid|Play}}: palm muted downbeat downstrokes and staccato [[Beat (music)#Downbeat_and_upbeat|upbeat]] [[strum|upstrokes]]<ref name="Snyder">Snyder, Jerry (1999). ''Jerry Snyder's Guitar School'', p.28. {{ISBN|0-7390-0260-0}}.</ref>]]
[[File:Skank quarter note harmonic rhythm sounds as.png|thumb|right|350px|Though notated with quarter notes, the Ska stroke sounds like sixteenth notes due to muting or dampening.<ref name="Snyder"/>]]
In guitar [[tablature]], palm mutes are rendered with a "P.M." or "PM", and a dashed or dotted line for the duration of the phrase to be muted. If the pitches of the muted notes are discernible, the fret numbers are given accordingly, otherwise they are represented with an X in lieu of a tab number. (If an X appears in lieu of a tab number but there is no P.M. directive, this means to mute the string using the fretting hand, not the picking hand.)

     P.M.------------|
 e |------------------|
 B |--8-------8-------|
 G |--7-------7-------|
 D |--6-------6-------|
 A |--7-------7-------|
 E |----0-0-0---0-0-0-|