Any ideas for drills to get you effectively muting strings with the fretting hand? I'm just making them up as I go along but can't help feel I have to get the 2nd and 3rd fingers moving independently for muting.:confused:

Rocco Prestia os one of the masters of left-hand muting and ghost notes - you might want to pick up a copy of his video.

Thanks jazzdog, starting to become a big issue for me nowadays with slap. I dunno why this isnt a bigger issue in instruction. Seems to be critical to me...

I'm having the same problem....

Rocco Prestia os one of the masters of left-hand muting and ghost notes - you might want to pick up a copy of his video.

You might be confused with muted notes (clicks) and the utility technique of left hand muting, used to eliminate unwanted noises and sympathetic vibration. It's usually used in conjunction with right handed muting.

The exercise I use with my students to help them create a "total" muting technique is having them play this pattern.

-------6-------
-----5---5-----
---6-------6---
-5-----------5- etc....

The idea here is that the thumb of the right hand (floating or anchored) mutes the strings you just played when you're ascending, and then the lower joints of the fingers of the left hand rest lightly on the string you have just played and mute them when you're descending. This sort of thing will really clean up your technique if you practice it slowly, making sure that the ONLY thing you hear is the note that you just plucked.

You might be confused with muted notes (clicks) and the utility technique of left hand muting, used to eliminate unwanted noises and sympathetic vibration. It's usually used in conjunction with right handed muting.



Yeah thanks, that's what I am talking about. But if you are slapping, say you play and open E followed by an D and the E octave I am trying to mute the E with the middle fingers and still play the D/E with the first and fourth. My thinking is to start getting the middle fingers working independently on muting... am I on the right track?

maybe the following article is useful

http://www.guitarists.net/lessons/view.php?id=32

Thanks illuminate, helpful...