Guitar Delay
Guitar Delay
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How To Clean Up Your Lead Guitar Technique - Part 2 Find The Solution To Fixing Sloppy Lead Guitar Playing
If you have a hard time playing lead guitar cleanly, the most likely reason for this is excessive guitar string noise. For most guitarists, refining this area of their lead guitar technique may have nothing to do with improving the way they play "the notes they want to hear". The root of the problem lies in the notes (strings) they do ‘not' want to hear.
If you are articulating the notes you want to play accurately, but you still have a hard time getting your lead guitar playing to sound clean, then this article will greatly help you to improve your guitar technique by eliminating unwanted guitar string noise.
In order to effectively mute guitar strings we do not want to be heard it is necessary to use two totally different sets of muting techniques: One to stop unwanted guitar string noise from LOWER (in pitch) strings; and another to mute the higher (in pitch) strings.
Although there is more than 1 way to mute guitar strings, some methods offer advantages that others do not and are therefore (in my opinion at least) better.
Muting The Lower Strings
Many guitar players use the palm of their picking hand to mute lower strings. Although this technique is pretty good at keeping most of the lower strings quiet there are two big disadvantages with this technique.
- Muting with your palm will cause a slight delay in the muting of a string which has just been played a moment before. This delay causes brief moments of unwanted guitar string noise. This happens for 2 main reasons:
- The flesh of your palm is much softer than the side of your thumb and therefore takes more time for your palm to actually stop the string from sounding.
- It is not easy to get your palm in the perfect position to consistently and reliably mute strings that are adjacent to the one you are playing in all playing situations.
- When you use your palm to mute unwanted string noise, the natural position of your guitar pick (when not playing) is now away from the strings. This is what I call your "Natural Point Of Rest".
When your pick is at rest up and away from the strings (in between playing each note), it causes your picking hand to work harder and significantly increases the chance for sloppy playing, string noise and slower picking speed.
A great solution to these problems (and to improve your guitar technique) is to mute with your picking hand thumb for all lower (in pitch) strings like this.
Notice that the "Natural Point Of Rest" when using thumb muting is now ON the strings (as shown in the picture above). This greatly reduces wasted motion and enables you to pick faster with much less effort.
Muting The Higher Strings
Many guitar players are totally unaware of the possibilities for muting unwanted guitar string noise from the higher (thinner) strings and this part of their playing is often one of the causes of sloppy guitar playing.
There are actually two main techniques for muting noise from the higher strings that I teach to my students when training them to improve their guitar technique.
The first technique involves using the underside (the fingerprint side) of the fretting hand's index finger. This part of your finger is used to "lightly touch" the higher strings that you want to mute. The key word in the last sentence is "lightly". You do not want to press down so hard that these notes begin to sound like regular fretted notes. Simply rest your finger on them thus preventing them from sounding.
In addition, you can also mute these higher strings by using the unused fingers of your picking hand (fingers that are not being used to hold the pick, such as middle, ring and pinkie).
This extra layer of muting ensures that there is no possibility for the strings higher than the one you are playing to ring out and add sloppy unwanted guitar string noise into your guitar playing.
When these ideas are combined with the string muting techniques of muting the lower strings, your playing will instantly become much cleaner than before. Now, every time you play, the only guitar strings that will be making sound are the ones you are playing!
If you have been working hard to perfect your guitar technique and two-hand synchronization (as mentioned in the first part of How To Improve Your Lead Guitar Technique article series ) then you already know that if your articulation/synchronization is developed well but your muting is not, the result will still be sloppy guitar playing. So, when trying to improve your guitar technique keep in mind the 5 areas discussed in this article series:
- Focused Awareness
- Articulation - The First Half of Two Hand Synchronization
- The Release - The Second Half of Two Hand Synchronization
- Muting The Higher Strings
- Muting The Lower Strings
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what guitar players use analog delay pedals?
like east bay ray from dead kennedy's and stuff like that. i'm just sick of playing dead kennedy's stuff and want to play some other stuff with analog delay in the guitar. so drop some names if you have some. thank you
it sounds pretty badass, i have the purple johnson with extra tape knob for the kind of old tape machine sound and i love it
David Gilmour
Loads of guitarists use a little delay at the very least.
EDIT: I'm buying the 808+ (tube screamer) from this guy, but have a listen the clips of his delay pedal...
http://www.goudiefx.com/delay.php
EDIT2: That's sweet, you can't beat analog gear.
8 String Guitar Tapping - Delay - Matthew McGhee - Boss ME-70 - Original