about palm muting and some other question

[Wjt]

You know when you on distortion and play solo right, like after fretting 6th string, you jump to 3rd string, but there is still ringing notes on 6th string even you had release your fretting finger one them, so there is not clean right? Which is no good? So how to I stop that, am i fretting in a wrong way or? Cause no matter now slowly i release or quickly release without doing a slight "pull off" there is still this problem leh. So how do I solve this? Palm muting? If palm muting how?

And the other question is,
what takes to be a good guitarist? Like play scales, is it more important to fret each note clearly or fret is properly without touching other string or playing fast?

Lets say guitarist a, play with extreme speed, can lots of background sound not clean very nosiy. guitarist b, play with fast speed, some background sound, guitarist c play with faster but slower than guitarist b, but totally clean, no background sound.

Btw, the noise im saying is not single coil noise, im using humbuckers, and tried my friend les paul, same results

 

[strats]

you can mute with your fretting hand or use your palm. and try to keep your fingers vertical. as for your cpoll, I'd go with C. playing fast but not cleanly is not good.

 

[Wjt]

how to palm mute correctly ar? is there any webb or video? Im using tom style of saddles, my hamer. thanks

 

[bin4christ]

i got the same prob so i tried to use the plam of my picking hand to mute the strings closer to me as i move down to the lighter strings but wen i ptried tt method plugged-in juz now it turned out tt it wasnt v. useful. so how man?

 

[strats]

that's where your fretting finger comes in. sorry man, this is a technique problem, kinda hard to rectify over the net.

 

[emg-rocks]

You know when you on distortion and play solo right, like after fretting 6th string, you jump to 3rd string, but there is still ringing notes on 6th string even you had release your fretting finger one them...

for me, if i have to do some string skipping such as when moving from the low E string to the B string, i will usually use my fretting hand thumb to kinda wrap around the guitar as i move my fingers to the B string. this will incidentally help to dampen the low E string and helps to mute out any unwanted ringing notes which may occur during the transition. of course using my pickin hand to lay across the string will help to double the effect of muting the unwanted notes too. hope this helps!

 

[tany]

try practising the pentatonic scales with different up and down string crossing patterns

 

[Rollercoaster]

Try raising your guitar action or you can try muting the ringing note with your fingers. As for question two, I would suggest you work towards being a guitarist who is good by your own standards, not by other people's opinions. Joe Satriani may be a good guitarist to other people, but BB King is a more emotive player to me. Every ear has a different opinion on what sounds good and what doesn't.

 

[bin4christ]

Try raising your guitar action .

but then the playability wud suck

 

[Rollercoaster]

Interestingly enough, a guitar's playability is decided by the hands of different sizes and shapes, to put it simply it's the personal preferences of every guitarist out there. A playability of a guitar is not justify by it's price. A PRS Santana, with it's price of a few thousands pounds is unsuitable for many people because of it's wide fretboard. Apparantly guys with big hands would find the guitar's playability great, while players with smaller hands would find it hard to play. My friend has a capo guitar with the action set real high(around 0.7mm) and he's able to play Yingwie Malmsteen stuff on that. To him, that guitar's playability is simply great! The solution I suggested may or may not work for Wjt, but that is jus one of the solutions outta a situation in which other solutions will exist.

 

[bin4christ]

ok...

but roller,the JS100 tt i use right,the action was default from swee lee..no1 has toyed with it but i find it too high n wen i attempt to play fast at the higher frets it seems tt i'm more likely to make tt ringing noise...

 

[Rollercoaster]

To put it in theory, if you're repeatly playing any four notes outta the chromatic scale on the same string high up the fretboard, um let it be very fast, when your pinky left the last note of the chromatic scale your first finger would already be on the first note in a split second, therefore muting the string. If you're talking about skipping strings here, I would recommend using the finger just before your last note (usually the third finger or pinky) before you skip string to mute the string as it means involving the least amount of movement and therefore saving time. I hope this helps you.

PS: I'm doing this without consciously thinking about it, I can't imagine anyone practiscing that, but good luck to you.