muting

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Mon May 12, 2003 2:23 pm

Hey, I've been playing for about a year now and can play most of dave's songs fairly well, but the muting has always plagued me. The songs still sound pretty good, but I usually just leave pauses instead of the strummed mutes and its always pissed me off. Anyone have any recommendations on how to fix this. Thanks.

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Mon May 12, 2003 2:35 pm

I guess maybe I good place to start would be could someone explain to me exactly whats going on with ants. I've watched videos, but I just can't really tell all of what hes doing with the left hand.

duluoz · Post by **duluoz** » Mon May 12, 2003 5:11 pm

When I play Ants, I usually have my left wrist kind of resting on the bridge in order facilitate a liitle palm muting kind of thing. Try to keep your left hand moving to get those "chika-chika" noises when you mute. This does take a deal of practice, but you'll be able to do it. Hope that helps man

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Mon May 12, 2003 5:52 pm

Thanks, when you guys are playing this do u play the slide parts after the chords using up and down strumming while muting the other strings?

saleen · Post by **saleen** » Mon May 12, 2003 6:07 pm

nirvana - smells like teen spirit

easy chords, good song to get the chucka chucka mute with left hand down

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Tue May 13, 2003 4:18 pm

Thanks for the response, I'm making some solid progress. Quick question, are the chords strums in the verse down strums or up strums.

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Tue May 13, 2003 4:47 pm

They are downstrums....dont get fool'd by the storytellers video if that's what you're basing it on because the audio/video synch is slightly off in ants.

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Tue May 13, 2003 4:52 pm

That was it exactly, I was watching the storytellers video and its like right in between up and down so I was like well it could go either way, thanks for the help.

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Tue May 13, 2003 4:56 pm

No problem

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:16 pm

last question because i almost have it down, in the verse in the slide part after the chord strum do u play that all down strums or quck down up strums?

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:31 pm

Yeah I just noticed I play a little upstrum there just as im getting to either the d or g....so yeah quick up and down..

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:53 pm

ok yea that makes sense about the d and g chords, and your saying quick up and down strums for the 4/5, 4, 4/5, 4. etc and 4/5, 5, 4/5, 5/7 parts after the chords?

TwoSteppingMonkey · Post by **TwoSteppingMonkey** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:17 am

seminole, im me at fsuwharf, we need to talk asap. thx
Bo

Trippin Hillbilly · Post by **Trippin Hillbilly** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:27 am

fsuseminole09 wrote:ok yea that makes sense about the d and g chords, and your saying quick up and down strums for the 4/5, 4, 4/5, 4. etc and 4/5, 5, 4/5, 5/7 parts after the chords?

I play downstrums on the slides and quick up and downstrums on the D and G.
Hope that helps.

fsuseminole09 · Post by **fsuseminole09** » Wed May 14, 2003 2:05 pm

Yea thanks for all your help, thats how I was playing it i just wanted to make sure I wasnt wrong. I just about have the song down