what helped you get over that? just changing finger placement and shaping?

@@bigdoinks4202I wish I had a good answer. Truthfully, I avoided open triads and having to do this by focusing on songs that don’t require it - I tend to play metal so - power chords, scales, and such. I only recently started going back to this stuff - forcing myself cuz everyone should know it - But I haven’t gotten back to trying to mute with my thumb, so I’m not sure. I haven’t had the problem, like it maybe went away, but also haven’t been using my thumb like that. I’ll return to this if it comes up again.

I also have small hands but I don't find it difficult to mute the string. However fretting the E string to make an an F chord, I find very difficult. Invariably I end up muting the high E string

O Ray make sure to really curl your hand around as if you were trying to get as far away from the 1st string because you are wrapping your hand to tight causing the string to be muted also another tip is to pull your thumb down so the tip of your thumb is just slightly muting the 6th string so as you pull it down you will have more hand space to avoid it. I had the same problem too

Use middle, ring and picky fingers to play A major chord so that 1st string doesn't get muted

In his beginners course he recommends the one with index finger on the g string. You can check out that video out for details

Playing power chords with the thumb over is not really a recommended manner to play them. Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher www.justinguitar.com

Have you already checked out these lessons? www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/string-muting-techniques-im-134 and www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/muting-strings-deliberately-b2-804 | they will give you more tips on muting in general | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Guide

@@justinguitar Thank you, Justin! You’re the best!

You play the d string open and the chord shape on strings 1-3. The 5th and 6th strings are not played.

^^^what he said

I can give you my five pennies of knowledge for deciding on buying a guitar. That you found this website gives you already a headstart, finding motivation is sometimes less than a click away. I had the same hesitations as you describe when I bought my first guitar (I didn't buy a second yet). It took a while accumulating sounds from guitars I took in my hands while visiting the shops. I'm certainly not against e-ordering products, but a guitar is for me too personal an object to 'just order one'. So I started to listen and gradually I learned what type of sound I liked in the shops. I also learned which shape/color/model/ ... I preferred to hold. Nowadays most brands have really decent guitars for a reasonable price. Your own feeling and your own ears will teach you what'll make you happy. Even two similar guitars will always differ a little in sound. Listen to more advice, but go for your own perception. As for prices, in the beginning I couldn't imagine and explain the price differences I saw, sometimes expensive guitars didn't impress me at all. I was patient and tried to learn and understand (during that time I was also able to save a bit more cash than I originally planned to spend), visiting shops again and again, missing opportunities too, and regretting my hesitance sometimes, until the day I entered the shop where this guitar was waiting for me. I'm still learning on it now, and I love to wake up and take it in my hands. There are a zillion guitars way more expensive than what I paid, but I am happy learning to play on the 'simple and not too expensive' one I chose that day, while knowing when I master this technique or that riff, it will sound great on the 'golden' one I'm saving my money for now.

@@MrFluitenier First of all thank you for your answer! Basically there are two problems, why I can't really buy a guitar in a store: 1. I'm left-handed, so most shops in, my area only have live a hand full of guitars I could theoretically buy. 2. My budget is only 300€ and there's no real possibility for me to earn something. I'm from Germany and I'm still going to school (11th grade). School is really time-consuming. I'm there from 8am to 3:30pm usually (on Wednesday until 4:50pm) and I still have to do homework and learn and stuff, so working is not an option. The shops in my area usually only have like 3 models that would fit my budget, but most of the time they aren't for lefthanded people. I found an Ibanez guitar for about 250€ that would fit my budget, but it's not available in qny store near me

Try not to play the strings that dont need to be played then lol

I also have a Dreadnought and found it's practically impossible to thumb mute. Good to know I'm not the only one lol

I started around September 2020. Watched at least 1-2 videos of JustinGuitar a day and I can say I can play the guitar properly now.

@@lyntrique2995 that's really nice to hear i also made some progress but it's quite hard for me to play everyday with my studies going on.

@@aymanatmani9967 haha sometimes I also miss days of practice cause of studies, good luck with your guitar progress