Hey guys,
I have been working on muting the adjacent higher string with the tips of my left-hand fingers, during soloing. I have seen players like John Petrucci and Michael Angelo Batio use this technique. But the problem I’m facing is that I am finding it hard to do bends and vibrato in that finger position. Also, I find this finger position is very hard to maintain higher up the frets (above 15th fret).
Any tips on how to overcome this? Also, I’d love to know whether Syn uses this technique. Because I don’t hear any string noise from his playing and his fingers always stay curved (the fingers are usually kind of flat for the technique I mentioned).
The reason I want to try this is that with my right-hand palm muting, I either mute the note (let’s say on the B string) before I pick the next note (on the e string) or I mute it late so there is some string noise. The former is easy to make out if I play slow, but I am not sure if it would get drowned out when I play fast as the time between playing both the notes is small (although the lack of smooth transition from one note to the next is apparent). In the latter case, eventually, my palm does mute it. But for a small duration of time, there’s a string noise.
Sorry for the long post. I wanted you guys to know all the angles of the issue.
Thanks!
I have been working on muting the adjacent higher string with the tips of my left-hand fingers, during soloing. I have seen players like John Petrucci and Michael Angelo Batio use this technique. But the problem I’m facing is that I am finding it hard to do bends and vibrato in that finger position. Also, I find this finger position is very hard to maintain higher up the frets (above 15th fret).
Any tips on how to overcome this? Also, I’d love to know whether Syn uses this technique. Because I don’t hear any string noise from his playing and his fingers always stay curved (the fingers are usually kind of flat for the technique I mentioned).
The reason I want to try this is that with my right-hand palm muting, I either mute the note (let’s say on the B string) before I pick the next note (on the e string) or I mute it late so there is some string noise. The former is easy to make out if I play slow, but I am not sure if it would get drowned out when I play fast as the time between playing both the notes is small (although the lack of smooth transition from one note to the next is apparent). In the latter case, eventually, my palm does mute it. But for a small duration of time, there’s a string noise.
Sorry for the long post. I wanted you guys to know all the angles of the issue.
Thanks!
