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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg  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.
