Is your slide guitar technique not quite what you want it to be? Well, developing a great right hand technique is the key to sounding good when playing slide guitar.

One technique that is a must know is right hand muting.

Right hand muting allows you to play single note phrases using the slide without other notes ringing into it. This will allow you to play many types of vocal melodies on the slide guitar. By doing this you will now have complete control of the slide and any scale you want to incorporate in will be much easier.

So how do you develop this masterful slide guitar technique? Well here are 3 things that will drastically improve your right hand muting technique.

1. Relax your hand. You will never sound fluid if your hand isn’t relaxed. To truly sound great, you need to be as relaxed as possible.
2. Mute all strings not played with either your thumb on the large strings or a combination of fingers on the small strings.
3. Rest your thumb in the space between the strings. This will mute more than one string and your palm should rest on the strings above it.

Developing a good technique takes focused practice and dedication. Daily practice of the same technique is critical. Once you have developed the correct technique for this, learning slide guitar licks will come much easier for you. It’s just a matter of practice now, pay later. In my DVD, Slide Guitar Method 1 Open E Tuning, I go over specific instructions on how to learn this concept.
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