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How to mute sympathetic vibration
I just learned about this when plucking my way through boogie woogie. Yes, just getting started. Heard and felt the low E when fretting D second fret. Found out about sympathetic vibration. Makes sense, but what do I do about it, especially at my stage of the game? Or just not worry about it yet. Thanks for any advice.
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sometimes the effect is desired and sometimes not. You get to decide how you want it to sound.
There are several ways to mute strings depending on where you find your fingers and which strings to mute. All of the ways are addressed here in our daily challenges. One of those techniques is palm muting, another is to dampen a string with your fretting fingers by letting your finger leak off of the string it is fretting to touch the string you want to dampen. It can also be done by briefly touching the string with the flat pick. This can be used to great effect. It creates a chirping sound.
Enjoy the sound and play with it. see if you like it or if it starts to bug you. It is only bad if you don’t want it there and can’t figure out how to get rid of it. ; )
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Hi @dblusk808gmail-com , one last thought: rarely is a sympathetic tone offensive. One strings energy causes the other to vibrate as it is ready to go at the sound wave frequency encountered. In a word, it wants to join in. The occasional offensive tone is caused when two tones are close but not aligned and it causes a wah wah sound that is hard to endure once you hear it. This is not usually found on guitars but it was worth a mention. The wah wah vibe principle opens the door to a whole world of possibility.
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Thanks for the reply!
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