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How to make that sound
I am not quite 2 months in – and finding this very challenging. Friday’s “Paint Roller” exercise has something I have seen Tony do before, but I cannot figure out what he is doing on the “muted” (my word) strums. The tab just shows all “X”, and I don’t know what he is doing to make the sound he does. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi David, he is muting either with his palm or in the case of the Dm chord he is muting with his index fingers across all strings as he strums. Tony has some fantastic dynamic control, he is getting the wood sound out of his guitar without totally dampening the ring. Maple guitars especially make a very cool sound when this technique is successfully employed. All guitars do it in varying degrees.
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I said index finger mistakenly. It is his pinky doing the muting. apologies for the confusion.
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Thanks!
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I originally learned palm muting so that is what I used for the challenge. On the down-strum, just before striking the strings I lay the meaty part of my palm and outside edge of my hand on the strings, which deadens them during the down-strum. It’s takes practice to get both the timing and the correct amount of pressure, but it’s not too challenging.
I tried Tony’s technique of using my finger, but found it very challenging.
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Thanks very much!
David
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