Ukulele for Guitar Players

String Muting Techniques for Ukulele

Pressure Muting

The most common form of muting to emphasise beat. The strings are muted by lifting pressure off the strings with your chord hand in time with the beat.

Illustrated here in a clip from Sweet Caroline

Most suited to chords where at least 3 strings are fingered, but beware of open strings. When you lift the pressure, open strings continue to ring out. Not an issue if the duration between beats is very short.