McCall
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Hello, I’m trying to learn the song On the Sunny Side of the Street from a video by Cynthia Lin (see the video link below) and I have a question.
The part that I can’t figure out is how she is getting the muting effect on her chords during the verse part of the song (for reference listen from about 6 to about 12 seconds in this video).
I’ve learned two ways to mute that are similar to this, but she doesn’t seem to be doing either of them, and I can’t figure out what she IS doing.
The two muting techniques I know are:
1. Fretting the chord during the strum, then slightly lifting my fingers off immediately after the strum to mute the strings from ringing out. But my understanding is that this only works for closed chords, and it looks like she is using some open chords here.
2. Fretting the chord, then immediately after the strum using a different left hand finger to come down and mute the strings. This would work for open chords, but it doesn’t look like she’s doing this either.
Is she somehow muting with her right hand? The only way I know how to mute with my right hand is chucking, but chucking sounds much more percussive than the sound she gets here.
Does anyone know what she’s doing? I just can’t figure this out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IMrJQHLcA
The part that I can’t figure out is how she is getting the muting effect on her chords during the verse part of the song (for reference listen from about 6 to about 12 seconds in this video).
I’ve learned two ways to mute that are similar to this, but she doesn’t seem to be doing either of them, and I can’t figure out what she IS doing.
The two muting techniques I know are:
1. Fretting the chord during the strum, then slightly lifting my fingers off immediately after the strum to mute the strings from ringing out. But my understanding is that this only works for closed chords, and it looks like she is using some open chords here.
2. Fretting the chord, then immediately after the strum using a different left hand finger to come down and mute the strings. This would work for open chords, but it doesn’t look like she’s doing this either.
Is she somehow muting with her right hand? The only way I know how to mute with my right hand is chucking, but chucking sounds much more percussive than the sound she gets here.
Does anyone know what she’s doing? I just can’t figure this out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IMrJQHLcA
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