Your Bass Muting Technique Sounds Like St (How to Fix It)

👉 My full beginner bass course: Without good bass muting technique, the notes you *mean* to play will get smothered by the rumbling racket of ringing strings. Muting means keeping strings from ringing that you don’t want ringing so that your bass lines sound clean and clear - and not like a muddy inaudible mess. In this lesson I’ll walk you through the five muting fixes most pro bass players to keep ringing and noise out of the picture. Fixes #1, #2, and #3 will start with your plucking hand, giving you a solid foundation for keeping your low strings muted. I’ll show you each fix, and then we’ll put them into action with the main riff from Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name.” But plucking hand muting is only part of the bass muting equation - we need to get the fretting hand in to finish the job. Fixes #4 and #5 will show you how to keep your higher strings quiet with a couple simple tweaks. Getting the plucking hand muting