He mentions to mute the strings above the one your playing with your right hand(picking hand), and the ones below the one you’re playing with your left hand (fretting hand)…, the latter i don’t find too difficult. What i didn’t quite get is that he says to use the bottom part of the palm of the picking hand to mute the unwanted strings… This was a bit unintuitive for me because I’ve seen a lot of videos and almost everyone uses the side part of your palm of the right hand… is there a right/wrong way to do this right hand muting? Because i don’t want to learn one way and then find out its the wrong technique and then learn again
Are you asking about the “bottom part of palm” versus “side of hand” wording? They are the same.
Look at how your picking hand needs to sit across the bridge and still get to the string you need to pick. My hand sits across the bridge down the side of the hand, and a little into the bottom of the palm on string 6 when I am picking string 1.
Hi @soumil0702, fellow beginner here. In the lesson you’re looking at, Justin is discussing muting strings while playing scales (and I suppose by extension, when you play riffs). There is another lesson coming up on palm muting where Justin describes using the outside part of the hand. So, it appears there are different techniques for different situations. My approach is to try to understand such distinctions, and to remember to apply the correct technique for what I’m playing. Kind of like using different fingering on some chord grips in different situations. To be honest, I’d forgotten this distinction - thank you for bringing it up!
While there are certain basics of muting to get down, I think it’s really a personal ‘feel’ thing about exactly how you go about it.
I’m finding that once you have the mindset down, its something just develops, rather than being learnt.
