Warehouse question

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

how many of you here can play it...and of those who can how do you mute the strings while playing it

[smedley]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

[DMBFan63]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

[smedley]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

yeah, i do have quite long fingers/thumb, haha

[DMBFan63]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

yeah, i do have quite long fingers/thumb, haha

that just doesn't make any sense to me..if you could, please post some sort of picture showing how you do that..it doesn't seem practical at all to use your thumb to mute the bottom strings

[smedley]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

yeah, i do have quite long fingers/thumb, haha

that just doesn't make any sense to me..if you could, please post some sort of picture showing how you do that..it doesn't seem practical at all to use your thumb to mute the bottom strings

we're talking about the E A D G strings, right? and sorry, i dont have any kind of camera to take a picture of.

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

haha....ok, i'll.....try that...

[DMBFan63]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

yeah, i do have quite long fingers/thumb, haha

that just doesn't make any sense to me..if you could, please post some sort of picture showing how you do that..it doesn't seem practical at all to use your thumb to mute the bottom strings

we're talking about the E A D G strings, right? and sorry, i dont have any kind of camera to take a picture of.

They're the lower pitched strings, but not the bottom strings. I get what you mean now

[smedley]

yeah, i meant bottom strings as in if you were looking at a tab, sorry. and yes, that would be impossible to cover the high strings with my thumb

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

for me it's pretty much my index finger covering all the strings when i'm doing the "rising" part (7 to 9 to 11), then when I'm coming back down i rest my index over the top strings while my thumb covers the bottom ones. it's kinda hard to explain.

your thumb covers the bottom strings!?

yeah, i do have quite long fingers/thumb, haha

that just doesn't make any sense to me..if you could, please post some sort of picture showing how you do that..it doesn't seem practical at all to use your thumb to mute the bottom strings

we're talking about the E A D G strings, right? and sorry, i dont have any kind of camera to take a picture of.

They're the lower pitched strings, but not the bottom strings. I get what you mean now

oooooohhhhhhh, i get it now...i just pictured you with a thumb long enough to mute ALL the strings...

[STLflmmkr]

i dont play it the same way as on the site but it sounds good. i dont strum i play each string on its own. 7 down up 9 down up 11 down up etc. the key to make it sound right is speed. i know that that might not help if you want to play the way it is on the site but either way one of the keys is speed

[littlefriend]

i dont play it the same way as on the site but it sounds good. i dont strum i play each string on its own. 7 down up 9 down up 11 down up etc. the key to make it sound right is speed. i know that that might not help if you want to play the way it is on the site but either way one of the keys is speed

I hear that, but that purcussive muting gives Warehouse it's personality.

Relentless practice is how you get those mutes. Start S-L-O-W-L-Y. Set the chord up and strum each chord individually until it sounds right. Now strum that same chord, that same way, fifty times. Then move on to the next. Then put them together. Rinse, repeat.

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

cheers guys

[Sciaracastro]

i mute everything w/ my index finger (in this song).Period.