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Nov 15 2007, 01:39 AM |
It more like technique,not effect in my opinion.
Point is to hit as many string as possible which means you have to be really good with left hand muting. Usually players rake over 3 or 4 strings,optional 5. Not sure about pitch/intonation,it should be the same. It MIGHT go just bit higher IF you hit string REALLY HARD but changing pitch isn't real purpose of raking. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 1 2009, 12:02 PM |
Yeah, muting is most important to get good racking.
You can stick to 2-3 strings racking if you wish but I would advise you to try with more strings and here are few tips. First of all, your tone must be dialed for raking. This mean not too much gain, it should be something between clean and overdriven tone, just listen to SRV's records and you'll no what it is, he never played on much gain and that is what helps a lot to avoid to noise when doing racking. Action of strings is also something you should have in mind, too low action will produce much more noise so I would go for some regular action or maybe higher, this depends on you. And now few words about muting. This is pretty much matter of feel and after a while your hand will remember sweet spot. I'm not sure if you use your thumb a lot but thumb comes very useful for muting when you do racking. Per example, you wanna play on G string with index finger. Index finger can mute D string by slightly touching it with the tip and also it can mute B and high E strings, so you have 4 strings raking right now. Now just apply thumb to low E and A and you have 6 strings racking! This is probably hard to do if you haven't used thumb before cause it's not fretting the strings, more like touching them enough to mute but not hard enough to make the sound of real note. I hope this helps a bit, let me know if you need more help. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 1 2009, 04:47 PM |
Ok I will work on the tone and maybe try out the thumb too. I did notice that my fingers were starting to naturally mute the strings without any "aiming" I was wondering why you had your thumb wrapped so far around the neck..... I was like "Does Muris really have that bad of left hand technique?" LOL Thanks again for the help. I will work on it some more next week. Tomorrow is SUPER BOWL!! Thumb is very useful and there's nothing wrong with using it, on contrary,it would be wrong avoiding it! -------------------- Youtube
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