Dave's accurate Muting

GO HYUNG · Post by **GO HYUNG** » Sat May 15, 2004 1:58 am

I believe someone had already been posted this type of thread before, but I'm just so curious about how dave mute the strings.
It just looks like he's strumming at least 4 strings but hits on the only one note, ya know? for the example, Crash into Me, What would you say, Ants Marching...

Just like everyone does, I wanna play like Dave

nugsta25 · Post by **nugsta25** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:07 am

dave has the ability to mute any string he wants at any time hewants. he is god. iam zeus.

MWR · Post by **MWR** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:33 am

He's good.

dmfollower · Post by **dmfollower** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:38 am

i've been playin dave for years and he's still teachin' me something new everyday. Like nugsta25 said, "he is god. iam zeus."
practice, practice, practice.....oh, practice helps too

mikee · Post by **mikee** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:59 am

I think I'm better than dave, seriously. But he's still an awesome muterererereerrrer.

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sat May 15, 2004 10:35 pm

he doesn't mute as much as these boards suggest. When he mutes, most of the time it's just the finger he is fretting just lays over the other few strings to mute. He really doesn't palm mute, and he normaly doesn't strum the whole guitar, just around the certain part he is fretting.

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sat May 15, 2004 10:39 pm

he is like a soldier, you know what I mean. Those strings are his friends, ya know? And the guitar is like 'nam. Now, he needs to get his buds.He can only get acertain amount everytime, so he skips a few. However, he cant just go straight in, he has to take an angle. So he comes from the side, you know, where the ladies like it. He puts his finger on his friends and gets a certain one. Next thing you know, he is gone. He is like......sneaky, ya know?

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sat May 15, 2004 11:06 pm

Beauford33 wrote:he is like a soldier, you know what I mean. Those strings are his friends, ya know? And the guitar is like 'nam. Now, he needs to get his buds.He can only get acertain amount everytime, so he skips a few. However, he cant just go straight in, he has to take an angle. So he comes from the side, you know, where the ladies like it. He puts his finger on his friends and gets a certain one. Next thing you know, he is gone. He is like......sneaky, ya know?

lmao, nice way of putting it , loved it

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Sat May 15, 2004 11:13 pm

well, I do try

mikee · Post by **mikee** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:49 am

Beauford33 wrote:well, I do try

too hard

lyrics101 · Post by **lyrics101** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:55 pm

Dave's an incredible songwriter, lyrically and instrumentally, but his stuff isn't as hard to play as it's made out to be on this board. You'll figure the muting out, no worries.

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:32 pm

watch his hands very carefully on concert videos.

trippin6strings · Post by **trippin6strings** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:25 pm

too much hydroponic ... madness

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:31 pm

what are you talking about?

TOMAMI · Post by **TOMAMI** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:57 pm

Fact: Dave Mathhews Mutes (Some tunes are harder to mute in than others) Example: Grey Street and So damn lucky are easier than Warehouse and Ants marching. Fact: Dave Mathhews Does Play guitar like a tour of duty in Nam. Example: the finger stretches in crash are like humping it through the bush day in day out but your feet infected but you don't dare stop because charlie is closing in.