Equal 16th bursts, honest silence, and why the noise gate cannot save a sloppy rest.
Djent is a word for a mute. The guitar plays a short burst of identical 16ths and then nothing. The nothing has to be as clean as the burst or the bounce dies.
The 0-0-0-0 cell
1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a X x x x - - - - X x x x - - - -
Both hands mute
On the rest, the picking-hand palm stays down and the fretting hand lies across the strings. Two gates. A single gate leaks. Then — and only then — a noise gate on the amp is legal.
- Start at 100 BPM. Speed is not the skill.
- Record. Zoom in. If burst four is quieter than burst one, your hand is tiring — shrink the motion.
- Once four-note bursts are even, write in 5s and 3s against the same 4/4 click.