Sweeping With Tapping, muting strings |
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Sweeping With Tapping, muting strings |
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Feb 23 2009, 12:51 PM |
Thanks for input Artemus and one thing is certain,
your approach is correct as long as you get results from it and keep your playing clean and accurate As for me, when I sweep up on the neck I like to apply same muting techniques as if my picking hand was on the bridge which means regular muting with palm and of course left hand muting. Now,muting with the palm around 18th fret isn't really the same palm muting like palm muting on the bridge and it surely doesn't work in real time for playing muted power chords or stacatto arpeggios per example, if you apply muting on every note that you're playing string will touch the fretboard and you'll get nothing but more noise. It's actually more like "after effect" so you need to mute string after you're done playing on it, and it works mostly for lower strings just like palm muting on the bridge. You have to be very careful when doing it tho, it's just slight touch on the strings without any actual pressure. In Sweeping and Tapping lesson we start from A string on each shape/arpeggio. So you have to play A string without any palm muting and once you start sweeping on D,G strings etc you apply palm on A string, then D string etc, you mute those strings that you already played. Left hand finger moves are essential here as well, everything has to be done very precisely without moving fingers too heavily in order to avoid extra string ringing. All this maybe sounds scary atm but after enough practicing your hands will get the "feel" of what to do, like basic instincts or som. Let me know if I missed something. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 23 2009, 11:14 PM |
I was pretty disappointed because I thought all I had to do was add a few taps to master the technique, I guess not lol! I guess its back to slow practice >_< Maybe I should also used a closed fist for sweep tapping so my other fingers dont get in the way, I usually have my other three fingers anchored. Yeah, it isn't just about adding tapping. And you could try with closed fist as well, maybe that's not most important here but who knows, give it a shot. -------------------- Youtube
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