Hey folks, I got my first electric a few months ago and I’m struggling with keeping strings muted when working on solos, hoping for some tips.
I’m primarily a keyboardist and bassist, but I’ve been strumming basic chords on acoustic since middle school so I’m not bad with strum patterns, bar chords, etc.
A few months back I got a lovely Squier Paranormal Tele Deluxe, and I’ve since purchased a Vox VT50 amp for her. My big problem is that I have big fat Billy Joel style pianist sausage-fingers, and I’m having a lot of trouble keeping strings muted while working on anything solo-ish. If I do a bend, no matter how hard I try to isolate the strings I’m working on, I tend to pull off the string below. If I do a solo riff, by the end of it all the surrounding strings are ringing like singing bowls. If I try palm muting I end up muting the strings I’m playing. Can anyone give pointers or point me in the direction of some good training to prevent this??