Picking, Free Floating or planted wrist |
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Picking, Free Floating or planted wrist |
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Sep 5 2011, 07:47 AM |
Are you referring to palm muting? There's various types of muting you can do with both hands to eliminate unwanted noise and create a clean or more aggressive/chucky sound.
I suggest finding a position (where you can rotate the wrist and pick all strings with no or minimum movement up and down) and while holding the pick, straighten out the other fingers (mostly the pinkie) like a karate chop on the bridge, move it back or forward depending on your attack and then relax the hand to fold over, fingers can curl in a bit if more natural. Start off light pressure and feel how much is required (depending on playing style). The palm should be muting the top strings. If required the pinkie can extend to the lower strings. Also you can use the free fingers of the fretboard hand and/or under them (like the bottom of the index finger) to mute the strings below. You can slap the fingers/palm to quickly mute and then create hard rock / metal effects, etc. Get timing down and your got yourself controlled rhythm. Some even use the thumb over top, however I personally think this can develop bad habits on holding the neck to tight. Then it's a matter of pick attack angle, finding the right pressure and still playing muted as well as floating. This post has been edited by Chris Evans: Nov 17 2011, 04:03 PM -------------------- Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Sep 5 2011, 07:52 AM |
Your instructor is right, but things aren't black and white. You can and should float the hand in some situations, but it's also important to watch for the muting. Muting is being done with both hands, whenever you can. Usually there is some palm muting happening, depending what you play. If you use treble strings, some palm muting is always being applied on bass strings, along side with fretting hand technique.
By using muting with both hands you eliminate noise further, because sometimes with fretting hand you will get a harmonic. Introducing picking hand muting will help you clear out the tone. So just keep your muting tight and it will be OK. Hand should be on the strings muting them, but it should also be capable of moving away from the strings whenever it takes. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 5 2011, 10:40 AM |
Not really, the noise is happening on any type of guitar really, even acoustic. It's just that when playing electric guitar (specially when choosing a hi-gain lead tone on big volumes), the noise gets amplified along side everything else, so this is why it's more prominent.
EDIT: typos This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Sep 5 2011, 12:50 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 6 2011, 04:28 PM |
That to me sounds like a very basic hand position you need to avoid noise. I think almost any one puts their hand on the bridge to stop the other strings from ringing,
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