playing electric guitar question
Question:
Ok here’s the deal… Whenver I play something on more than two strings ( wow, more than two? lol ) in full distortion mode, the second string i hit doesn’t sound clear. the only way to make it clear, is to mute the first one i hit before i hit the second one.. To illustrate this problem, here’s an example. In the chorus of Santana’s Maria Maria where he plays the electric it goes like whenever i hit the -13- on the B string, the sound just gets muffled and unclear. The only way to make it sound good is to realease the high E string, so that the sound from it stops, and then I can hit the B string to make it sound clear and smooth. Is that normal? Is there a technique to fix it? Cozz my man Santana doesn’t release it when he plays that little pattern (according to the video of that song) … But then again, he’s got a million dollar guitar… I got a Washburn WR-150 and an Ibanez IBZ10 10 W practice amp… Thanks for your help….
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I am not instantly familiar with this song, but the problem sounds very familiar. I assume you are playing with distortion, and so Carlos surely mutes all of the strings with the palm of his right hand to get all of the notes to ring. Just partially mute.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Ok here’s the deal… > Whenver I play something on more than two strings ( wow, more than two? > lol ) in full distortion mode, the second string i hit doesn’t sound clear. > the only way to make it clear, is to mute the first one i hit before i hit > the second one.. To illustrate this problem, here’s an example. In the > chorus of Santana’s Maria Maria where he plays the electric it goes like > whenever i hit the -13- on the B string, the sound just gets muffled and > unclear. The only way to make it sound good is to realease the high E > string, so that the sound from it stops, and then I can hit the B string to > make it sound clear and smooth. > Is that normal? Is there a technique to fix it? Cozz my man Santana > doesn’t release it when he plays that little pattern (according to the > video of that song) … But then again, he’s got a million dollar guitar… > I got a Washburn WR-150 and an Ibanez IBZ10 10 W practice amp… > Thanks for your help….
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> Ok here’s the deal… <snip> > Is that normal? Is there a technique to fix it? Cozz my man > Santana doesn’t release it when he plays that little pattern > (according to the video of that song) … But then again, he’s got a > million dollar guitar… > I got a Washburn WR-150 and an Ibanez IBZ10 10 W practice amp… > Thanks for your help….
This may not help, but it’s worth a shot–try turning your distortion down a little bit. You’d be surprised how much better it sounds if you’re running it really high. Usually, you can back off a couple of notches and not lose a whole lot of "grit" but you’ll sound better. With it cranked way up (and the majority of beginners I’ve seen just peg it at 10), there are a lot of overtones and weird harmonics that are generated that are really hard to control and can make chords sound really wonky. If you have a lot of trouble with "handling noise" where you can’t touch the guitar without it making some noise through the amp, that’s a good sign your distortion is too high.
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