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Fingerstyle Blues Video lesson - Dampening the Bass

This lesson is taken from AGW's 10 CD course - "60 Day Fingerstyle Blues Camp". For the full course resume, please click here

String dampening
For that really authentic acoustic blues sound you need to be able to dampen your bass strings. Tilt your right hand towards the bridge and use the fleshy part of your hand (the bit that bulges below the little finger!) and let it rest lightly on the 6th and 5th strings, allowing them to just sound and not die completely. This enables the bass strings to be controlled more smoothly and helps to bring out the sound of the melody on the top strings. Of course this is an optional effect, you can always play with the normal open bass. Let's try it with a tune called “Please Don’t Go” It uses a constant bass line.

The quality of the video is compressed for display on the web. On CD the video is much sharper and clearer

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