Dave's accurate Muting

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Dave's accurate Muting

Unread post by GO HYUNG » Sat May 15, 2004 1:58 am

I believe someone had already been posted this type of thread before, but I'm just so curious about how dave mute the strings.
It just looks like he's strumming at least 4 strings but hits on the only one note, ya know? for the example, Crash into Me, What would you say, Ants Marching...

Just like everyone does, I wanna play like Dave :D

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Unread post by nugsta25 » Sat May 15, 2004 2:07 am

dave has the ability to mute any string he wants at any time hewants. he is god. iam zeus.
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Unread post by MWR » Sat May 15, 2004 2:33 am

He's good.

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Unread post by dmfollower » Sat May 15, 2004 4:38 am

i've been playin dave for years and he's still teachin' me something new everyday. Like nugsta25 said, "he is god. iam zeus."
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Unread post by mikee » Sat May 15, 2004 8:59 am

I think I'm better than dave, seriously. But he's still an awesome muterererereerrrer.
























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Unread post by Ranting Thespian » Sat May 15, 2004 10:35 pm

he doesn't mute as much as these boards suggest. When he mutes, most of the time it's just the finger he is fretting just lays over the other few strings to mute. He really doesn't palm mute, and he normaly doesn't strum the whole guitar, just around the certain part he is fretting.
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Unread post by Beauford33 » Sat May 15, 2004 10:39 pm

he is like a soldier, you know what I mean. Those strings are his friends, ya know? And the guitar is like 'nam. Now, he needs to get his buds.He can only get acertain amount everytime, so he skips a few. However, he cant just go straight in, he has to take an angle. So he comes from the side, you know, where the ladies like it. He puts his finger on his friends and gets a certain one. Next thing you know, he is gone. He is like......sneaky, ya know?
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Unread post by Ranting Thespian » Sat May 15, 2004 11:06 pm

Beauford33 wrote:he is like a soldier, you know what I mean. Those strings are his friends, ya know? And the guitar is like 'nam. Now, he needs to get his buds.He can only get acertain amount everytime, so he skips a few. However, he cant just go straight in, he has to take an angle. So he comes from the side, you know, where the ladies like it. He puts his finger on his friends and gets a certain one. Next thing you know, he is gone. He is like......sneaky, ya know?
lmao, nice way of putting it , loved it :-D
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Unread post by Beauford33 » Sat May 15, 2004 11:13 pm

well, I do try
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Unread post by mikee » Sun May 16, 2004 10:49 am

Beauford33 wrote:well, I do try
too hard :lol:
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Unread post by lyrics101 » Tue May 18, 2004 9:55 pm

Dave's an incredible songwriter, lyrically and instrumentally, but his stuff isn't as hard to play as it's made out to be on this board. You'll figure the muting out, no worries.
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Unread post by Davy28 » Tue May 18, 2004 10:32 pm

watch his hands very carefully on concert videos.
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Unread post by trippin6strings » Tue May 18, 2004 11:25 pm

too much hydroponic ... madness

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Unread post by Davy28 » Tue May 18, 2004 11:31 pm

what are you talking about?
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Unread post by TOMAMI » Fri May 21, 2004 4:57 pm

Fact: Dave Mathhews Mutes (Some tunes are harder to mute in than others) Example: Grey Street and So damn lucky are easier than Warehouse and Ants marching. Fact: Dave Mathhews Does Play guitar like a tour of duty in Nam. Example: the finger stretches in crash are like humping it through the bush day in day out but your feet infected but you don't dare stop because charlie is closing in.

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