Muting upper strings when downslanting

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#1

Greets! Here Mario from Spain. I’m working on my downward pickslanting and pentatonic stuff, but I’ve a particular problem: cleaning

When I’m lowering string (i.e. 6th-5th-4th…), I usually use my right hand thumb to progressively mute the last string that has sounded. This habit has made me an upward pickslanter.

My problem is that with downward pickslanting, I can’t find the way to mute upper strings with my thumb when I’m going from bass to treble. I can’t use my thumb for this if I have the hand slanted in the opposite way! (down slanted).

I’d appreciate your help in this matter, thanks in advance.

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#2

Check out this video on muting by uncle ben:

In short, it’s the job of palm when using DWPS to mute the bass strings.

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#3

Yep, it will take a little while to “unlearn” what you’ve been doing all these years with the thumb.
I personally seem to use the front side of the thumb as mentioned at 6:02 in the video, rather than the palm. And for me it seems the natural choice since I’ve added a little edge picking slant to my picking stance so the fleshy part is right there already.

#4

Hey there! Sorry, I’ve been off for Christmas.
Thanks for your replys, great video. I’m working on it!
Happy new year!