High String Muting

[overdriven]

heavily muted top strings=pinky finger /knuckle near bridge saddle
top B and E = left hand fingers
all the rest=right hand side of palm

misssing the volume knob=practise mate

I asked my teacher about that and he said never to mute your top strings, even on fast parts. Don't you think it changes the tone? I did it and I must admit the floyd makes it much easier to mute without deadening, and I thought the tone I got might have sounded closer to the recording I was hearing. But I don't know... is it recommended to do this, because there is a hell of a lot fast of stuff I would do this for just to make it sound that bit cleaner.

[hawkerbc2]

I have the same problem but to be honest I think it is mainly caused by trying to plat too fast without the proper technique and practice building up at slower tempo.

On the lower strings a bit of palm muting and distortion can make you think you're progressing really well with alternate picking, economy/travis picking, sweep etc..... but hit the higher strings and suddenly the tiny flaws in your technique are there for everyone to hear!

Will have to check out this muting with the fret hand technique to clear up my sloppy playing, any chance of the powertab please?

[shredmonster]

I have the same problem but to be honest I think it is mainly caused by trying to plat too fast without the proper technique and practice building up at slower tempo.

Yep. Thats exactly it. Its a bitch to play cleanly especially when using a lot of distortion. Takes a lot of practice especially when sliding up or down with scalar runs. Were not talking just one year of practice here. All this stuff on guitar takes quite a few years - speed, vibrato, everything.

Two things come to mind: Developing proper finger strength to hit the notes cleanly and the angle of your fingers when you hit the notes - which depends on the direction your run or pattern or arp is going. For example, sometimes you hit the notes sort of perpendicular with your fingertips. Other times you hit the note at an upward or downward angle and even pull or push it a very small amount to control it.

The other thing you have to do is to learn how to mute the string above or below with the same finger you are playing the current string with.

Just keep practicing.

[jjw]

I have the same problem but to be honest I think it is mainly caused by trying to plat too fast without the proper technique and practice building up at slower tempo.

On the lower strings a bit of palm muting and distortion can make you think you're progressing really well with alternate picking, economy/travis picking, sweep etc..... but hit the higher strings and suddenly the tiny flaws in your technique are there for everyone to hear!

Will have to check out this muting with the fret hand technique to clear up my sloppy playing, any chance of the powertab please?

shoot me an email at [email protected] and i will send you that powertabbed exercise.its a good one to learn as it sounds great and you have to do lots of left hand freting muting to keep that B string under control

i usualy mute those top strings with the fret hand only-i only normaly mute those top 3 strings with my right hand pinky if i wanted that palm muted percussive tone or that demon driver type arp sound