Learn to Control String Noise When You Play Guitar - Steve Stine Guitar Lesson 

I really hate all the online guitar teachers that never mentioned this stuff and now I have to relearn EVERYTHING.

that solo in the beginning put me into a trance man, I forgot what the video was even going to be about

This is uncanny. Yesterday I was doing my learning exercises, and thought "wow, I really need to figure out if there's a technique or something to dull out the vibration on the strings I'm not playing". Not 24 hours later, boom! Thanks for living in my head, Steve! XD

That had a Pink Floyd feel . 🤟🏻👍

You are quite possibly the best teacher on RU-vid for those who want to improve and fine-tune their playing technique. Thanks for sharing your expertise Mr. Stine!

That left index finger muting thing ... I'd never heard it mentioned before. Thanks! Another thing to be conscious about until it happens unconsciously. Wonderful!

Steve, I am 62 and pretty much a beginner and I could watch your videos all day. The way you explain things and encourage people, makes me think I have a chance to play well enough to enjoy it. That’s really all I want to do. Thanks

That opening solo was beautiful. You're an amazing musician!

Man, now I need to relearn all the hand positions... Part of getting an education is realizing what you don't know. Thanks.

You're the most useful guitar teacher!! I needed this lesson. Thank you so much Steve!

“Keeping everything clean as you start using more distortion” beautiful contradiction

Good lesson! You rarely see people talking about this. It's so important

I could have listened to you play that tune all night long. Your lessons are always amazing and enlightening. Thanks for being you.

Steve, you have helped my playing tremendously. It's so rewarding as a player to discover this ability, and must be as rewarding as a teacher to help so many people discover something you're so passionate about. Thank you!!

I’ve been playing fifteen months, but I’m originally a sax player since childhood, and this particular thing has been bugging the hell out of me. It’s especially helpful how you show I can practice this with scales. You covered all the bases. Thank you so much.

Outstanding video. This was a great refresher & identifier of the subtle ways a guitar makes unwanted noise. Thanks so much.

Enjoy how you focus on the proper technique of guitar playing in your lessons. One of my top 3 RU-vid Channels, outstanding work!

Sure appreciate your detailed lessons, you are the best teacher I've ever found. Just starting at 52

Your an amazing guitar teacher and your videos have tremendously helped my playing throughout this year ! Keep rocking

Soloing is feeling of the guitar notes just coming from ur instant playing with ur both hands in total control over the fretboard awesomely done

This is great! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much.

Your videos are so great! Been playing for 3 years now and most of my progress is due to your teaching! Thanks for all the work you do!!! \m/ \m/

Hello sir... I've been playing guitar for 4years and you are the reason why my alternate picking is so good right now... I feel so satisfied while playing guitar right now....thank you for being a guide of mine...thank you sir... Really willing to meet you sir....😊

Steve you're the first guy on YT that has addressed this issue, that I've come across. I found this to be an issue a couple of years ago when I started doing instrumentals. I worked thru all this stuff over time to come to the same practice effects.

This is honestly the best video I've seen on this topic. Great work Man!

Thank you for bringing us such a important class for free! You're awesome :)

The solo in the intro was really something. Thank you for the lesson, I got what i was looking for.

Oh my God. What an introduction. Bravo Steve

On point and easy to follow as usual. Thank you so much Steve.

Just repeating 60% of the comments here .... But that intro solo was something else. What an amazing guitar player . Makes want to put in the hard work and effort to learn to solo like that . Thanks for taking the time and God bless you

Great advice, I’ve been battling with string noise for a while but this helps massively. Thanks man.

1:48 nooooo keep playing ;-;

wow im just learning to play the guitar , what an inspiration you are to me , amazing guitar player/teacher thank you

An amazing lesson. A thorough lesson!👌🏾

Nice tips, will start incorporating this into my practices!

"Shine on you crazy diamond"

Exactly the advice I've been looking for! Thanks so much!

There's always everything on your channel that I want.. Literally Anything 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘

As someone who learned on acoustic, this is hardest damn thing to master. I spent so much time making sure my fingers weren't touching other strings. Great video thanks for the help.

Got my like for that lick in the beginning, that was sick.

who can dislike this kind of videos?? very informative, sir steve! thanks for this quick lesson.

Great lesson again

Dudes one of, if not the best teachers.. so subtle with his methods of breaking things down.. great personality 👌

You're the best Mr. Stine..thank you!

Superb lesson. Ty ty ty!

Very good lesson as always. Thank you.

Steve you're a great teacher and take the time to give great helpful techniques, never BS that really doesn't make sense but always good helpful information theat if a student listens to and makes good use of will eventually make them a much better player, whether they are just playing for their own enjoyment or performing in a studio or a professional gig or just enjoying UA jam,session with friends. Another plus is that you also seem to really enjoy teaching others and have a very positive attitude. Sometimes as a teacher you wonder if students are truthfully g"getting it".. I just wanted to let you know, that I'm 66 years old and never had lessons, I've long since realized that if I had been fortunate enough to have had you as an instructor when I was 12 and just beginning, by now perhaps I,COULD HAVE BEEN ENJOYING A STAGE WITH Eric Clapton, Jon Mayer, Joe Bonnamasso, Tommy Emmanuel Or Yourself🇺🇸🙏( of,coirse I'm joking but I can wee where I would truly have acquired one helluva lot more talent. Anyway for what it's worth I enjoy tuning in now and again. God bless for the hard work and talent you put in to help others.

Very good explanations. Thanks a lot. I was wondering why the songs I played were a bit "messy". Now I understand what I must manage to do to keep control on guitar. It will be maybe a difficult work to do but it's good to know how the pros are doing it !

One of the best lesson ever 🙌

top tier lesson right here, excellent teaching. 10/10

I need to learn those lick and intro solo! Awesome lessone Steve again, as always.

Man Steve what I wouldn’t give to ad lib like you man!!! Amazing

Man, that was absolutely beautiful sounding.......

Great lesson , awesome solo!

Brilliant advice - great video!

This looked like some intimidating badass while playing and then he starts talking and he's chill

Very helpful. Thank you very much.

A beautiful sound in the solo. Nice playing.

So THAT'S how you do it! Thank you so much for sharing this. I have been messing about rather than learning for a couple of months, just learning a couple of basic chords and a pentatonic scale (as a finger exercise), as well as cranking up the distortion and play some Rammstein and so on. Would never last more than 10 minutes at a time due to getting frustrated with hearing the strings i am not playing (especially with distortion cranked up). Going to have to get practicing this so i can actually start your online beginners course.

Wow! Thanks a lot Steve! This is the advise I was looking for!! I love distortion without so much noise!! Thanks! :D

Thanks again Steve. Informative as usual!!! Daniel

Perfect! Thank you Steve!

This is exactly what I've been trying to learn recently. After playing my guitar not in the amp and then plugging it in and hearing all the noise I was like wtf. So I've been googling this and getting everyone's lesson, however this is by far the best explained and shown I've seen

Oh God your solo is so... no words for that! Reminded me a bit of Pink Floyd, which is one of my favourite band ;-)

Now THAT is a solo! Thanks Steve!

Great Works !! You the man !!

Nice video, thanks !

You're the best man! Thank you.

Thanks for the vid my clumsy ass hands need all the tips I can get

That solo at the beginning is a damn killer man. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Awesome iintro!!!! And thanks alot for the lesson.

Excellent Tutorial, Sir! Many Teachers forget about Muting!

what a beautiful playing at the begin,,, applause

That's another great one, I'd wondered how to do some of that, thanks!

Great stuff

Thank you so much! Best teacher eveeer

Great lesson. I know I'm doing this subconsciously, but never really paid attention to it until I watched this video.

Very nice video, Steve.

Hi Steve. Yes, I think we all grab the concept, but putting it into practice is hard. I was told once not to worry about it because it will 'come' when playing, but I think a lot of us need to get this sorted and need help. Any ideas for practising would be a big deal for a lot of us! Cheers. Chris

Fantastic video

Excellent instruction.

Thank you bro. I hope this comment will up your video in the algorithm of "video suggestions" for every guitar student or any guitar player out there.

You are a fine teacher Steve

LOVE that tone Steve! BE AY YOOT IFF ALL

I have been practicing hard for the past year, but could not improve. After your guidance, after only 2 days, I realized my mistakes and did what I could not do in the past year. All the best things come you

Amazing stuff 👍

Tour way of teaching is pure gold, delicatessen!

Love your play..

Thank you so much!!!! Ive been struggling for months now !! Finally!!

Perfect! I'm a drummer who uses guitar for songwriting and I can't always control my electric once I apply distortion,so this shows what I'm not doing! Steve you explain this brilliantly.Sure it's gonna take me some practice but hey Cheers!

Love that opening piece you did. Awsome. I live how you explained things here. I have an electric but, a lot of times I dont plug into an amp. Kinda do the electric acoustic. So , I struggle a bit, with keeping things clean. Half is that I should be plugged in. This and the other video like a live stream is great for tips and pointers. If you do another video on playing clean. I think you should feature pieces that would be noisey to play then follow it up with playing again clean but. Telling and shiwing what you are doing to get those notes clean . This way people who are clueless to how to do this can try to play the pieces and with being taught how to specifically clean each of thise notes they can further understand the clean dynamics. Its easy to say base of the palm for low strings and finger tips or whatever to clean the higher strings. But, sometimes getting closer to each situtation makes a bit of a difference. I like Carl Browns lessons. So I try to focus how he plays and positions his hand or fingers. This helps a lot.

Best noice cancel lesson I’ve seen. 👍👍

Thanks 🙏 for this valuable lesson

very pedagogical! Thank you very much!

Just when i thought i was getting somewhere you throw this curve ball into the mix!

this is the best lesson ive seen for muting your strings

Thanks, Steve.

Great lesson. I've heard some teachers say you should only practice scales on an acoustic or clean amp. I used to believe that until I started practicing on an amp with high gain. I found that the thumb of my picking hand was ever so slightly gliding across the string above the string I was picking. Even though I was muting the string it was still making unwanted noise. I would have never heard that noise without the gain.

That was really usefull. Thanks.

Thank you Sir