Left Hand Muting

Left hand muting is used to create a scraping sound by striking the strings while they are muffled. To acheive this, you simply rest your left hand fingers over the strings and then strike the strings to create the scraping sound. This technique is often used in funk and sounds good between chords. This technique is represented in tab by an ‘x’ on the tab. Below is a simple example of this…

e|———————————–|
B|———————————–|
G|–9-xx-9-xx-7-xx-7-xx-5-xx-5-xx-4–|
D|–9-xx-9-xx-7 xx-7-xx-5-xx-5-xx-4–|
A|–7-xx-7-xx-5-xx-5-xx-3-xx-3-xx-2–|
E|———————————–|