String muting, and wrist pains.

Wrist pains and Muting

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[sbryant328]

Recently, I realized my electric playing produced a lot of noise from other strings meaning the non-fretted strings. I just started working on it this week and I am already seeing improvement but you are absolutely correct in that we all need to find our own way of doing it. Going slowly is key. Great video man!!!

[feltgrape]

Yep! A cool thing to try to do is to pick any single note on 1 string and strum all the strings but only let that note ring out, try it with all strings.

It gets a cool percussive sound.

I listen to lots of Dispatch and State Radio so the reggae influence percussiveness came into my guitar playing. Also bands like Protest The Hero, Tool, Dream Theater, and Dillinger Escape Plan really got me into cool rhythms and shred, so I think muting is a huge factor in rhythm and lead playing.

[ilutzio]

Awesome lesson mate! You're very skilled. Thanks for the tips on Muting, it was exactly what i was looking for.

How do you mute effectively when you're soloing?

I've heard and seen lessons where they tell me to palm mute bass strings, and left-hand mute non-plying treble strings. But i can't just seem to get the knack down, it just seems to restrain me, all that muting. =)

Any ideas?

[feltgrape]

Ummmm.

The thing is you really have to get your own ways of doing it. But that is the basic idea behind it. I never actually thought of muting, I just learned some reggae guitar and it improved a lot.

With soloing its harder, but if its a problem then you have to play slow and see what is ringing out and fix it problem by problem.

There isn't really one easy solution, every situation calls for different muting. I've been playing 4 years so its natural by now.

[wickidchildbaby]

your chair looks like a smiley face ;D!

thanksxx

[saxplayer00]

hey man. that was a really good lesson, but i was wondering how to mute just ONE string. Like say your playing the A and G strings at the same time, but you dont want to let the D string ring out. how do you do that?

[TheDUDE101GOOD]

very helpful thnx

[garr205]

empty that bin!

[executionair]

perfect lesson , i was playing with my wrist backwards for 4 days now , hurt so much...

[SoldierOfBreath]

Good lesson. Just do me and humanity a favour and don't become a surgeon without reading up

[raventears69]

you just mute almost all of the strings and only pick the string you want to play

[feltgrape]

You have to kind of lay your index finger more flat so that it blocks that string(assuming its an octave shape). Just think of any way you could do it, whatever happens to be easiest and works, do it. 8)

[Sparten14145]

hahahah lol

[seperra]

I have the same problem...