unintentional muting

[neil groves]

I have been playing on and off for a few weeks now and am having an enormous amount of fun learning riffs and stuff
I think my biggest difficulty though is muting out strings when i don’t want to, i play a chord for example and a string which is supposed to be open is muted out by the fleshy part of a finger holding an adjacent string, my fingers arn’t overly big and i’ve certainly seen fatter people than me playing with no problem, any idea’s folk?

Neil.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t worry Neil. That’s par for the course & only continued practice will have you playing those chords cleanly. Even after 40 years of playing, when I play a new chord, I don’t get it cleanly until I’ve practiced it a bit & locked it into muscle memory. It can be boring, but just try going from one chord to the one you are have trouble with & back again & do it over & over. You’ll find that at each practice session, you’ll be playing it better & better.
Cheers

[neil groves]

ok Mike, thanks for the advice, i don’t practice chords per say but only when i come across one i need for a certain song, then i take some time to try to get a clean sound.

Cheers mate

Neil.

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