Warehouse question

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Warehouse question

Unread post by uhgotnegum » Wed Jan 08, 2003 9:53 pm

anyone have some pointers on how to mute the strings for warehouse during the intro and verse? Ok, so that's my question...This site is the best!

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Unread post by gravesRR7 » Wed Jan 08, 2003 11:12 pm

i've been playing this song quite a bit recently, and you will see that as time goes on, you'll find many ways to mute the strings. the way i do it is to just rest finger 4 on the strings for the first few notes, then, when you hit the 7 on the G i press on the string with 1 and mute B and E with 1, and for the other strings, i actually use my thumb. it seemw wierd at first, but if you watch dave play it, i think thats actually the way he does it. what it does for you is make you able to strike the strings very hard in order to get a sharp hard sound, but without the ringing of the other strings. try it out
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Unread post by MattyTrane » Wed Jan 08, 2003 11:50 pm

Just kinda curve your finger so it only sounds the low E string.

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Unread post by gravedigger » Wed Jan 08, 2003 11:52 pm

gravesRR7 wrote:i've been playing this song quite a bit recently, and you will see that as time goes on, you'll find many ways to mute the strings. the way i do it is to just rest finger 4 on the strings for the first few notes, then, when you hit the 7 on the G i press on the string with 1 and mute B and E with 1, and for the other strings, i actually use my thumb. it seemw wierd at first, but if you watch dave play it, i think thats actually the way he does it. what it does for you is make you able to strike the strings very hard in order to get a sharp hard sound, but without the ringing of the other strings. try it out
I've also been playing this a lot lately, and I also mute the B and E with the 1 when its on G-7. but I mute the D with my 2 finger and I mute the A and E with my 3 finger. It looks like a C-chord formation. and to me, that's what it looks like he's doing. so it looks like hammers the 7-9-11-x-x-x than goes to the x-x-x-7-x-x using fingers: 3-3-2-1-1-1. or at least that's the way I do it. It takes a quite a bit of practice to get the touch for muting like Dave.

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Unread post by uhgotnegum » Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:08 pm

I give that a try...Thanks for the help

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Unread post by gravedigger » Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:28 pm

uhgotnegum wrote:I give that a try...Thanks for the help

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Re: Warehouse question

Unread post by fraggle » Fri Jan 10, 2003 3:03 pm

uhgotnegum wrote:anyone have some pointers on how to mute the strings for warehouse during the intro and verse? Ok, so that's my question...This site is the best!

Cody
The way I figured out muting Dave style is just STRUM. Its gonna sound like absolute shit at first, but you will get it figured out, and it will sound right. Make sense?

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