Guitar Muting

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For more information from the source site of this video please visit: http://secretguitarteacher.com/youtub... • This is a sample lesson from the Secret Guitar Teacher website (see link above). • It is part of the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course so is not ideal for complete beginners, but anyone who has played guitar for a while and wants to get a nice professional sound to their playing should get something from this lesson. • Here's the abridged transcript: • As mentioned at the end of the last lesson, muting is one technique which, all on its own, once mastered, tends to really separate out amateur from professional-sounding guitar players. • You can easily hear a big difference, but it is less easy to see exactly how it's done. If you worked your way through one of our beginner courses you may remember a lesson very early on about how to make different sounds from a single note: • Clean sounds by making sure your finger pressed the string against the fretwire with just the right amount of force...buzzy sounds by relaxing the pressure on the string just enough to allow the string to rattle against the fretwire... and dead sounds which you create by relaxing the pressure a little more so that the string comes right off the fretwire, but remains in firm contact with the finger. • Controlling the creative use of this dead sound is what we are interested in, in this lesson. I'll use the G Em C D7 sequence to demonstrate this...Start by strumming it normally... then just start squeezing out a pattern like this • With these particular chords you are only ever holding down 2,3 or 4 strings -- never all six strings. So while your squeezing and relaxing action affects the strings you are in touch with, there are always open strings that just keep ringing. • Well I'm going to show you a couple of tricks we use to solve that problem. Firstly, with your right hand, try and focus your strumming mainly on the strings you are in charge of with your fretting hand...So on the G chord...focus your strumming on the bottom two strings • On the Em chord home in on the 5th and 4th strings.Same on the on the C chord hit the on the 5th and 4th strings.Then on the D7 find the top three string. • To improve on this, there is a slightly more difficult set of techniques you can use that actually involve muting out all six strings. What's a bit tricky about this is that the actual technique will vary with each shape you play. Let's look at a few examples. • • On the G chord I use what I call the wrap around technique...here it is in slow motion. Notice that the thumb is coming over the top of the fretboard to mute the sixth string. The fingers are just collapsing across the strings to take care of muting the remaining five strings. Hear how effective that is at cutting the sound off neatly? • Another little tip to throw in here is to use the four-finger versions of the C and the F chords. his gives you direct control over an extra string making the muting job a bit easier. • When it comes to the Em chord, the wrap around technique can be used...but there is an easier technique for chords like this...notice that all I am doing is using my two spare fingers the third and fourth fingers on my fretting hand as dampers optionally, I can use the thumb as well. This technique also works best with the D chord • So what you will find I think, is that for each chord shape you use there will be a particular combination of these three elements... the thumb coming over the top...the wrap around technique ...and the use of the spare fingers as dampers • It's important to say that you don't always have to use muting. Some songs are best served by playing a ringing guitar sound. The decision as to just how much of this technique to use is part of what makes your individual sound and style. • OK, so we are getting towards the end of the technical section of the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course. The final lesson in this half of the course will be on ornamentation -- so join me for that if you'd like some tips on how to add a bit of flourish to your playing... • See you then!

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