Hi bass players i hope you guys are alright , and welcome to this video where i am going to talk about a very important matter
and it is muting the strings
on the bass as in any sitrngs instrument we must put a lot of attention th what we ar eplaying but the same level of attention must be put to what we are not playing
wath i mean with this is that when we are playing bass lines of phrases that involve more than 2 strings
most of the times the strings taht we yous play keep vibrating
and this vibrations give us unwanted sounds or in other words it give us a dirty sound
so here is where the muting strings techniques come to place
the technique that i am going to tech you where i started to use it
it was by self learning because when i got in front of this issue this one was the fastest and easiest way for me to deal with it
some time in the future i wll known that this technique is called floating thumb
i want to explain this technique to you because in future videos i will present to you fingering exercises and arpeggios
so by kowing this technique you will be able to play these exercises with a clean sound
something that i have seen in some video tutorials that re made for begginers is that when they are going to teach the plucking technique
is that they say that the way to do it is to put the thumb on the neck pick up as an anchor point
and from there start to plucking the strings
the true is that this way works most of the times but as i said before when we are going to play bass lines of phrases that involve more than 2 strings
is where the vibrating strings problem comes in, for example
here we can hear the residual vibrations that stay after we play the strings
so in order to aoid this we must use a muting strings technique, the one that i use as i said before is the floating thumb technique
and the way to apply it is to put or thumb over the strings that we want to mute
and as we play we move the thumb through the strings to allow the strings to sound and to be muted again
there are many muting strings techniques
John Patitucci, one of my favorite bass players, use this one, what he does is to place his pinky finger over the E string and the ring finger over the A string
and with this other 2 fingers he pluck the strings , and with the other finger he release and mute the strings as he move through them
as i said before this floating thumb technique i started using it by self learning so when i come to kwon the patitucci´s muting technique i have already master the floating thumb technique so i stay with it,
so the patitucci{s technique i had never practice or use it but i mention it to you guys because if you want you can search for his tutorials and practice it
it is good that you guys know that there is more than one way to mute the strings
to practice the floating thumb technique is very simple
what we are going to do is to play every string 4 times
and we are going to move playing string by string 4 times way up and way down
in this way
this simple exercises will help us with familiarize ourselves with motion of the thumb through the strings
one we are familiarized with it we can play any exercise, phrase or song using this technique until it becomes automatic
something to take note is that the muting strings technique are more focus on the lower strings
for example if we see the Patitucci's technique he focus in muting the strings E and A using his pinky and ring fingers
so in the same way with the floating thumb technique we are going to focus on muting the lower strings
beause in the case of the D string muting when we play the G string our index and middle finger will rest over the D string muting it
this technique can be apply in the same way on a 5 string bass and a 6 string bass
in the case of the 6 strings bass like the one i got here
with our thumb we are going to mute all the lower strings and as we play we simply move the thumb though the strings just as before
in the case of the higher strings wich are G and C we have the same situation that with D and G on the 4 and 5 strings basses
where the plucking of the strings wil rest over the string that is right before it wich mute the string
so in this case we must focus on muting this 4 strings with our thumb
so once again let us hear a phrase play with thumb over the neck pickup technique
and now using the floating thumb technique
as we can hear with the floating thumb technique we have a clean sound
well friends this have been all for the moment i thank you a lot for watching the video and i hope that it has been useful to you
if it was i ask the favor to give a like, share it and subscribe to my channel
in the next video i will started a series of videos where in every video i will teach to you one or more fingering exercises
once again thank you a lot and see you next time
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