Muted stroke and Staccato

First 4 bars with normal strumming
Second 4 bars with muted stroke and staccato

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• muted
• stroke
• staccato
• acoustic
• guitar
• strumming

[dvtpgm]

What do you do with chords that have open strings? For instance, you can't possibly just lift up your fingers for the E chord, since there are open strings.

[gohwuiping]

@dvtpgm Good question. t is much straight forward to do this with barre chords. There is few ways to go about it with open chords. 1) Ignore it The strings you press on and lifted up will still be muted, Just let the open strings ring 2) Focus your muted strum Strum only on those strings which you press. 3) Muted with your left hand By arching it down during the muted stroke 4) Don't do open chords Change your E open to an E chord that is not open (I should most likely do a left hand video)

[mikosiko90]

I think it is G D E C

[dvtpgm]

@gohwuiping Yes you should do a video which features your left hand lol.... it will help so much really

[gohwuiping]

@AznSpartanz Lift up your left hand

[AznSpartanz]

@gohwuiping how do you play it like that.. cutting off after every stroke

[gohwuiping]

@gohwuiping I am basically playing the same thing on my strumming hand for both 4 bars. The trick on the difference is on the chord hand. (which I should place my camera on). I lift up the left hand every few stroke in order to get the staccato effect.

[gohwuiping]

@AznSpartanz What do you mean how?

[AznSpartanz]

how?!?!!?

[gohwuiping]

Staccato simply means short sound. Which means you lift up your left hand immediately after every few strum, in order to get a short sound.