Damping or Muting Your Strum: Rhythm Tricks
It has been a HOT week here, and thus, good for catching up on ukulele lessons. 🙃 Today’s lesson is on how to spice up your strumming with a rhythm trick called “damping” or “muting.” I also provide a bit of discussion on how that works best in the context of a song.
As always, for more personalized instruction and discussion, you can check out my study group on Facebook, “The Bard’s Ukulele Study Group”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/163694317718617/
Happy playing! 🎶
Yay- well done you on getting though the hay making and still managing to look human - that's no mean feat! I know as a kid, whenever we finished they hay season, I was dropping after so much hard work!
This was a fabulous video - really clear instruction and filming style that meant I could easily pick up on what you were demonstrating. I don't play uke - but am about to pick back up a guitar, and am wondering if I can carry this cunning method across. Perhaps more the second version than the first. I'll give it a go.
Congrats on the Curie by the way - very well deserved!
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Haha, yeah, haying is definitely not for the faint of heart!
Thank you SO much for the compliment! I am very happy my videos are clear and easy to follow. 🙃 And yes! You can totally carry this method across (I also play guitar, and have used it successfully). Best of luck, and let me know how it works for you!
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Hey thanks so much for the lesson! It was very well presented, clear and easy to follow. Love your take of songs as stories and the story arc! This should work on guitar too - agree?
My pleasure! 🙃 I am happy you found my teaching style easy to follow. Yes, this technique will absolutely work on guitar. Thank you for stopping by! 🎶
Great I thought so for I play some guitar and would definitely like to try it on my guitar. Thanks again.
Heather the Bard! I need to keep taking classes from you! I have been a bard but I only write lyrics and play my ocarina, I definitely need more practice with you on music theory and techniques!
Thank you for teaching us these great lessons here on the Steem blockchain!
I am very glad you found my lessons helpful! 🙂 I can definitely do up some lessons on music theory — thank you for the suggestion!
Yeah! Going to check out your blog and see what the bard has been up to!
Dumping appears much easier, to bring down the hand palm onto the strings. It has added a distinctive sound on the guitar music.
Mapping is also good to a little loosen the fingers and have the same sound still.
Am inspired by your lesson.
Thank you! I am glad! 🙂
Well done also nice skill!! I'm not familiar with guitar but I'm interested, thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you for listening! I am happy you found it valuable!
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