Scott Morris Lesson on String Dampening

ByBradford Werner
2014

A lesson on String Dampening for classical guitar by the excellent Scott Morris. This lesson is via Guitar Salon International. Don’t worry if you don’t fully understand all the theory or harmonic language, the main idea is that some sounds belong and some do not and string dampening is the way to clean up the sound. He covers a multitude of techniques as well as the musical results. Enjoy. If you’re looking for a technique book you can check out my review of classical guitar technique and exercise books.

Video Link, Quote, and Source: http://youtu.be/Efv2K_cg2XI

Guitar: 2014 Woon Sun Lee.
Here’s another video lesson from Scott Morris illustrating concepts from his ‘Classical Guitar Complete’ method (http://tinyurl.com/k3884v2). In this lesson Scott addresses the topic of string dampening and shows us a few techniques, using Villa-Lobos’ Mazurka Choro as his example. Scott is playing a 2014 Woon Sun Lee classical guitar at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.