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[AlexLee]

Hi, I am a very big problem. First of all I must say that my guitar skills are quite bad.

Whenever I try and play something. All the previous notes would still be ringing while I am playing other strings. How do I stop this irritating problem? I was told that I have to mute my strings. But how do I play something fast then mute then play fast then mute? How is that even possible?

And if I just play the parts muted, they sound like crap. And like that how to play open strings?

 

[ShredCow]

Looks like you need visual instruction.

Why don't you take a trip down to Penni, go into Luther, G77, Maestro... play around, strum around.. then casually pop the question to the players there?

I'm sure they will be more than glad to help a young musician improve.

FOC too!

 

[Kole]

Palm muting with your picking hand will get rid of this problem. As for speed, don't play fast until you can master that technique ( and not have strings still ringing ) at a slower speed.

Practice slowly while paying attention to your body's tension and premeditate where each one of your finger's next moves will be.

Hope this helps.

 

[fenderrules]

Practice slowly while paying attention to your body's tension and premeditate where each one of your finger's next moves will be.

yes i totally agree with this one. if im right, i read somewhere its developing your muscle memory. like you, but i only have a teeny problem with it. your hands make the moves, not your head. this will also require you to strengthen your alternative picking alot. in other words, you need practice.

paul gilbert has some videos on developing muscle memory on youtube. check them out.

try working maybe on a small riff off a scale or arpeggio. a small chunk. then add more notes and see which to mute which not to mute. usually it will be the 6th, 5th and 4th to mute. i tried muting G it didnt sound that nice.

heres an excercise i made up myself for a warmup..its a part of the f# minor scale

D--4---------4-------------------2-4-6----------------------------------------
A--4---------4------------2-4-5--------2-4-5---------------------------------
E--2---------2-----2-4-5----------------------2-4-5--------------------------
P.M P.M

usually in this i prefer palm muting all of them. but for practice you can try unmuting the A or D string parts, then you can mute the 4 and 5 as you go back up and strum a F#5. or maybe a vibrato or 2, up to you.

hope i have helped in you in a way..

 

[MikePhilippov]

I agree with Kole. The only thing I would add is that I recommend you get a teacher as soon as possible who will help you fix your problem faster than you could yourself.

Good luck.

Mike.

 

[ZackUidl]

I agree with Kole. He definatally knows what he is talking about with this.

 

[ShredCow]

Palm muting with your picking hand will get rid of this problem.

Actually, this only solves half the problem.

For example, when you are running a scale, from lo E string to hi E string, your fretting hand will be muting all the strings as long as the strings are under your fretting hand.

So when you play your scale, and get to the A string, your fretting hand can't mute the Low E string. When you get to the D string, your fretting hand cannot mute the Low E and A strings.

Thats when you bring your picking hand in, to mute those strings.

 

[ZackUidl]

I use my thumb to do 95% of muting. It just works best for me.

 

[TheBreed]

practice 8hrs everyday......practice!!!!!

 

[SpaTanS]

:lol: BREED !!! your avatar looks cute !!! 8 hours a day ??? woohoo ... that's extreme ... :lol:

ok, i'm no expert but it's true that most expert softies here have mention, mute it with your left hand's thumb for low strings (E,A,D) and mute it with your right palm for higher strings (G,B,E)

it takes quite abit of practices to do it ... go slow at your own pace which means u r able to SEE and FEEL what both your right and left hands r doing ... u know the saying ... right brains work for left hand, left brains work for right hand ? :lol: yeah ... so practices do make perfect ... and it's the beginning of a very long journey to coordination of both hands, alternate picking, string skipping, sweeping, shredding, blah blah blah ... :lol:

i'm still working my brains ... practice practice practice ...

 

[hydrogencynide]

u have to combine muting with ur fretting hand and picking hand....

for me... using shredcows example of scaling up the frets, i palm mute the lower strings as i go up... when i come down, i will use the fretting hands to mute instead...

anyway.... theres a dumb solution to this though... if u are just like soloing, u might want to try and tie a sock around the first fret... comfirm quiet