stone muting

Duffman · Unread post by **Duffman** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:24 am

how do you guys play the stone? do you just pick the right string? or do you play it similar to warehouse where you mute the string you aren't playing. i play it picking the string, but i'm trying to play it like dave and do the whole strumming thing. i think doing the strumming helps with the timing of the song. so all you struming, learn me how.

i-am-me · Unread post by **i-am-me** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:41 am

well dude...its not like he's strumming like you would in a chord progression. he doesn't exactly picks. he just kinda hits in that general area. so you mute maybe 2 or 3 strings, and leave the other note. you don't have to mute EVERYTHING. just don't play em.

DMBFan63 · Unread post by **DMBFan63** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:02 am

I can play it both ways.. it's good to show it off either way:-p but seriously, if you can't get the muting down, just play it picking each string..

borocks · Unread post by **borocks** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:42 pm

I did a video of the stone some weeks ago. Do a search, the thread's called "here are the videos" or something like that

rochsuperstar · Unread post by **rochsuperstar** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:48 pm

I just figured out how to play that last week and i just pluck each string, seems to work pretty well for me..

Ranting Thespian · Unread post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:14 am

it's a kind of loose pick. You pick, but you normaly hit the outside strings, and you mute those by just resting your fingers in a way that they lay on or touch the suurounding strings.

johnnyd · Unread post by **johnnyd** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:19 pm

loose picking is the best way to describe it. Take a look at the Charlie Rose video. It's the kind of thing you can do if you don't think about it.
The harder you try to play like that the more you fuck it up. If that makes any sense.

the_drewster · Unread post by **the_drewster** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:36 pm

Hey, Ranty.

What hand am I muting with, the strumming hand?

rochsuperstar · Unread post by **rochsuperstar** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:41 pm

I don't know if this works for anyone else but it does for me.. Just strum up and down on the one string you need.. It may take a while but its good to know for when soloing and stuff.. just a thought...

Ranting Thespian · Unread post by **Ranting Thespian** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:14 pm

the_drewster wrote:Hey, Ranty.

What hand am I muting with, the strumming hand?

Um, I have no idea how you mute with a strumming hand. So, no, the fretting hand.

jngshin · Unread post by **jngshin** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:27 am

i just keep it loose. dont focus on either muting or individually picking.
keep fingers down so that even if you hit other strings, they are muted.

DT · Unread post by DT » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:30 am

Ranting Thespian wrote:
the_drewster wrote:Hey, Ranty.

What hand am I muting with, the strumming hand?
Um, I have no idea how you mute with a strumming hand. So, no, the fretting hand.

sometimes i pick while palm muting, but thats more of an electric thing.... not that that has any relevance to the stone

i just losely pick and the better i get at it the more of a strumming motion i get... its just practice and how smoothly you can pick and mute with your left

Thomas · Unread post by **Thomas** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:07 am

actually i found that if you palm mute it while you are strumming that it sounds a lot more like dave plays it. i got that from the video of him at kfog radio or something but if you listen, the strings he's picking don't exactly ring out, it seems like he is just BARELY touching the strings with the side of his strumming hand. try it

i think you'll really like the sound of it, but when i say barely i mean just BARELY.

DMBFan63 · Unread post by **DMBFan63** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:22 pm

The Dreaming Tree wrote:
Ranting Thespian wrote:
the_drewster wrote:Hey, Ranty.

What hand am I muting with, the strumming hand?
Um, I have no idea how you mute with a strumming hand. So, no, the fretting hand.
sometimes i pick while palm muting, but thats more of an electric thing.... not that that has any relevance to the stone

i just losely pick and the better i get at it the more of a strumming motion i get... its just practice and how smoothly you can pick and mute with your left

Is that you in that pic on your avatar dreaming tree?

DT · Unread post by DT » Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:15 pm

yea thats from my trip to vail from a few weeks ago.... its a screen capture from a video my friend took in the back bowls

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