So this lesson is all about the picking and explains the different possibilities and how and when to play them. It's a really important part of playing blues rhythm.
View the full lesson at 12 Bar Shuffle Picking Techniques | JustinGuitar
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Hi, in this lesson, what exactly is happening when Justin demonstrates the shuffle rythmn using the ‘big mute’? I understand that he is using the fretting hand to mute the upper strings but is he also muting using the strumming hand at all? When he demonstrates the technique at a slower tempo it sounds like he is letting the chord ring out with each down strum but when he speeds up it sounds very tight, as if he is muting all the strings for the up strum? Is this the case or is it just that at faster tempos the effect is such?
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I’m curious about this, too. Can you give a time stamp for the relevant part of the video? (I don’t want to watch through the whole thing.) Thanks.
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In short, no. That is 1st finger fretting hand.
This is the version where all strings are played (for a root 6 chord) both down and up with the thinnest strings being muted.
The strumming hand is busy moving down and up in bigger arcs compared to the more limited movement of the all-down first version in the lesson. It isn’t doing the muting. That all comes from the curve of the 1st finger as it reaches up and across the thin strings to land on the root note.
For a chunka-chunka with root on string 5, the 1st finger also mutes string 6 with its tip.
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Perfect, thanks for confirming. Indeed, just from my own experimentation it felt like this was the case so am very glad I wasn’t going down a crazy path.
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