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yes another post in techniques forum for me..

a quick one..when you slap...how do you personally mute..lets say on a 4...do you use alot of palm damping for the whole lot or do you use your thumb for the E or if you play five the B..like to hear your thoughts...

any vids to show your kind of technique are welcome..

all the best..

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you can mute the string from a slap by having 2 points of contact on the string with your left hand, so that when your thumb hits the string it gives a mute sound not an actual note like with one point of contact.

if thats what you mean?

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I'm muting with both hands when I slap, dependent on what I'm doing. I think it's only good to have a range of ways to do things - look at how many ways Rocco mutes when playing fingerstyle.

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Both, but mostly LH.

LH pats and RH soft strikes..

I'll pluck fretted notes from E downwards as the B string is nicely defined for that..or thumb them, it depends.
I tend to have a fast thumb action rather than a triplet/pat style..which is more economical.
More like Louis Johnson..who I liked to hear more than I liked to see him doing it but slap has moved on so much these days...

I find my slap style is more soft groove-orientated than solo orientated, so a solo drop-in for more than a few bars would be a work-out atm..I'd guess.

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