For a beginner like me this is what I am starting to work on now. There are just so many subtle things to learn on guitar sometimes it's overwhelming.

It's commendable how many pains you go through to demonstrate every single facet of guitar playing. Real quality stuff, man.

Great information, and well presented! I remember long time ago as a kid I would think that needing to mute would be like cheating or an indication of not being able to play precise enough. How wrong I was! I´ve since learned to use the technique for chords, and that just opened the whole world to me. I never ventured much into soloing, and only now realize muting is a key thing for sweet clean soloing as well. I would always have problems with noice coming off the bends. My forefinger needs to learn to come to rescue! Actually this also explains why it is usually hard to see from videos what notes the artists play, because their fingers seem to always be all over the strings. Now we all know why, so obvious!

This is by far the best lesson I’ve ever seen on KZfaq thank you so much for what you do

That trick with a finger after bending was very useful! Thank You! Subscribed

This is spot on, exactly where I am struggling at the moment. Thank you.

It's amazing how much your videos have leveled up since you posted this seven years ago. On another note, it may be a cheat, but I recently had to record a palm muted part and the high E string kept ringing out. So I just removed it. It's not a good longterm solution, but it did the trick.

Wow Paul, I've been subscribed to you for about a year now but this is the oldest video I've seen. You've come so far with your editing and presentation, makes me excited for what the future of this channel holds. Keep it up man!

I've been playing guitar for 20 years and I only now realise I don't do this! Going to spend tomorrow going through all Paul's early vids to see what else I forgot to learn! Plus I will now be referring to my G&L as an electro guitar from now on.

Omg, the single string “Cant Stop” was me in middle school i thought i was killing it

7:08 as you see sometimes you gotta mute when youre not even playing as well :)

This guy is so chill, I totally can see 1m people enjoying him

His dirty playing sounds cleaner than my sound

Keeping strings muted while trying to solo on electric, especially with gain up, is tough for me. Will try this technique using fret hand index finger as trying to use right hand to mute doesn't work for me very well. Thanks, great lesson and playing. You make it look easy!

I think it's vital to have a clean sound, it's the most important thing to me... do you have some exercises for that? I mean, some patterns I could use to practice my 'muting' technique.. Thank you, really good videos.

Can you make a tutorial for can't stop by the red hot chili peppers

Sympathetic vibration is the culprit! Marvelous 11 minute lesson and demo.

Your skill comes from that epic beard

Being unable to find the proper ways to mute my strings caused me so much frustrations for so many years that it's one of the leading factors for me to stop playing guitars...

That was my major problem, it helped a lot. Thanks, you're awesome :)

ugh those damn single strings are so frustrating. Thanks for this!

very helpful, thanks. I'm gonna have to practice these tips, I've always had trouble bending and catch the next string up

I just want to say. That orange telecaster is reminding me of that miranda afternoon i sipped coke on a sleazy summer with freedom just a mile beyond me. Its just too good.

This is what drummers like me who use guitar for writing NEED to learn. Once I put distortion on my electric it often sounds a right mess,Thanks Paul!

Can you make a video on picking techniques because that is my biggest issues

Muting is probably the hardest thing I have come across while learning. It is so counterintuitive, you are trying to touch the string after you have played it. For other beginners like me, you can try practicing "Killing in the name of" by Rage Against Machine. You have to mute a lot in that song to make it sound clean.

Thanks a lot man....my strings were ringing while releasing the bends....ur technique helped a lot...

Salve, Paul. Aqui do Brasil assistindo todos os seus vídeos. Parabéns pelo Bom gosto nas suas aulas !

I found the delay between the wide shot camera and the closeup fretboard camera to be disorienting. Other than that, fantastic tutorial! Thanks very much; I really want to learn how to use this technique for songs like Can't Stop.

very very great tutorial. Thank you! I have been working on this idea once I saw Paul Gilbert talking a lot about using the thumb for muting, but learned some additional great tips in this. Thank you!

5:10 Just a timestamp for myself, scroll on 6:15 ring fing 7:20 index 9:00 bends

Paul you’ve come a long way I’m just a few years. Cinematography and editing skills have gotten crazy good 🤙🏾

Should be studying right now.. but Paul your my guitar hero men you just helped me so well

Can you please make a video or give me advice on how to avoid the "accidental pull off sound" when lifting fingers from the strings? Everything sounds like shit because of it and its the same all the time. Anyone else have the same problem?

Paul, I'm surprised you haven't covered right-hand palm muting (on the bridge), which I consider a basic technique on both acoustic and electric.

I played acoustic for a year and finally got a electric guitar and I just realized my muting is so bad and causes rlly messy sounds, I'm going to try mastering this now

Thank you for the lesson. I needed that !

Your channel is awesome. Very well explained! Thank you very much. You are very professional. Endless guitar knowledge.

I was playing for 5 years but I found myself stuck in like the same level of playing until I got into John Frusciante, his playing I just fell in love with & he taught me like a style to mute the stings I don’t want to be heard & that shot my playing level dramatically so I thing this is one of the most important lesson for guitar players especially if lead is your aim

The trick of muting the chords during a bending with your index is very very useful. I didn't know that. But I'm not able yet to hit the six strings and letting play just one of them. Very hard, not so easy.

Just so utterly helpful! Thank you!!! Do you have a tutorial on palm muting?

Why don't guitar teachers start with this?

5 years ago, dayummm

For unison bends when you can’t mute the top strings with your index finger, how can you prevent unwanted noise? Thanks for the tips!

Hey Paul, good morning. I've been struggling with unwanted string noise (especially bending,) so this will really help thanks. Although I had to giggle slightly, because I think it's probably the noisiest video you've ever done.. that electrical buzz! This is not an insult btw. This was a long time ago and the quality of your video production now, is easily some of the best out there. But this did make me laugh considering the title. just a bit though.. sorry 😉

Holy shit! Chris Evans is teaching me guitar! Thank you KZfaq auto-play!

It's an important topic. Proper muting with both hands. It takes a while to develop to execute naturally and subconsciously.

amazing also have you a video on how to play green day holiday ? Cuz ur so amazing at playing it

Your always helpful really to be honest most of my tutorial and exercise are yours since cant afford a guitar teach

That’s the first time I’ve had that bending trick pointed out. Hopefully I can use it (too many ingrained habits though I expect)

Unfortunately, some of us can't use the left thumb to mute because we have ridiculously short fingers!! In my case, a surgically repaired left thumb that is short and doesn't bend properly makes that technique somewhat useless.

Great tips in this video!

Exactly what I was looking for Great Video

What is the song played at :58?

Can you make a video on how to create better tones on guitar multi effects processor?

I did the opposite and regret it. I thought by training to be a super precise player I won't have string noise not realizing string noise occurs without even remotely touching them.

Great video, Paul, thank You. Looks like You need to work on synchronization between left hands 10:27 :))

10:00-10:20 I love the way that sounds

Another great tip, many thanks.

Any possibility that you might apply this teaching style to bass guitar? I find your teaching style easy to follow. Just i am trying to learn on the wrong kind of guitar.

thanks for this video, it's super helpful. any tips for string muting when the index finger is playing the 1st (high e) string?

So when playing lead single notes you should be muting unwanted strings all the time? Brilliant lessons by the way👍🏻😎👍🏻

What a great lesson, thank you sir

How do I mute strings when I play an ascending scale, like you did in the lead playing example with the 3 note per string pattern?

I've been playing for ten years now and I noticed a few months ago just how sloppy my playing actually is. my only fear is that to do this correctly I'll have to relearn the guitar entirely since I've been playing a certain way for so long now

You are a REALLY GOOD guitar player.

Hi great video I got a question, I play only with my fingers (classical guitar style) and I have not found a way to mute the strings when I am playing single notes up the fretboard (from 6th string to 1st string), tried with the thumb of my right hand as I go up the strings as bassists do but reduces speed and my thumb finger nail got stuck, do you know about a way to mute in that case?

the chords are no problem...it's those single notes that I gotta woodshed.

Maybe mention, you are also muting with the right hand ?

Hi. My thumb is really short. How can I mute. I NEED to mute. Help me. Please!!!

Awesome Left hand is the key !

whats the name of the first song you played

Class video.

Hi Paul, when you are strumming all the strings, what is the best way to mute all of the strings *except* for the high E string? If you wanted to play singles notes on the high E while strumming.

playing the main lick from cant stop its a neverending battle for me. practice practice practice sighhhh lol and after that im gonna TRY snow

supergoeie tips! bedankt!

nice guitar playing!

Thanks Chris Evans

Good up until the last one, where there was resonance on single note playing. How do you stop/mute that?

my life in a nutshell . great video.

What’s that first tune you played, it sounds really medieval

What guitar is that first one?

Thank you Captain America!!!

You're enlighting us about guitar like Gautam Buddha

can you pleease talk about lead muting

How do I set my guitar sound nice

Great tone... what pickups and amp/fx ru using? Thanks 👍

Whenever I do a high E bend on like the 22nd fret, I'm always hearing the B and G string ring out now matter what I do. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Any tips on muting strings while playing power chords? Like in Holiday.

What about muting bends properly? I get 'muted noises' when releasing strings higher up on the neck after a bend. The strings are palm and fret-hand muted, but the bend release still sounds. It's like unwanted ASMR.

i've been playing for 5 years and it's embarrassing how i still can't get the intro part for holiday right because i never practiced it like this

really useful

What about unison bends?? All three fingers are taken and I can’t mute the strings

paul how do you mute all strings and bend just a single note? that done with the right hand muting or left hand? hope you got a point.

With Cant stop, i find that when muting the E and A string, i am triggering harmonics with my thumb. How should i be muting? Is two points of contact on a steing when left hand muting the only sure fire way?

I m not able to hold the B flat chord I had been trying for a long tym it doesn't sound right.. what to do?

Okay, but what about for finger style. My guitar teacher has me playing in a position where I can’t palm mute at all

Looking for muting videos because I couldn't play Can't Stop, and lo and behold

5:55 (just marking this spot for myself but if you're reading reading this have a nice day :> )

What about putting a hair-tie (scrunchie) around the nut (assuming you don't play any open strings)? Just lazy?