The Dan Thorpe Acoustic Academy
Two Minute Challenge
The Palm Muted Thumb Thump!
Here is a fun little fingerstyle challenge that will help you start getting your one guitar to sound like two! The thumb plucks the low E string while a finger plucks the high E string and you let it ring out. It’s a cool idea which we will develop further. Leave a comment below and let me know if you like this sort of challenge!
This is a cool idea. I haven’t seen this before. Will have to give it a try in the mix of a song
Yeah, give it a go, it is good fun. 🙂
Interesting for sure, it will be cool to see it used in future lessons.
Glad you liked it. Got some good ideas to take this a fair bit further soon. 🙂
I love the sound of this. The muted bass note just goes right through you. I have seen this technique before in the smokestack lightening riff video. Well worth working on.
Glad you are enjoying it, Martin. Yeah, it is a cool technique we will develop, and good spot seeing how it ties in with Smokestack Lightning riff. 🙂
Good idea to work out.
Glad to hear it, Allan 🙂
That was fun!
Super. Pleased to hear it. 🙂
Love this technique, just like the old blues men.
Yeah, definitely inspired by the old time greats with this. 🙂
That is actually very cool Dan – I’m anxious to continue working with that!! Thanks for the video on it!! Cheers
Glad to hear it, Logan. Yeah, there will be something very cool developing this coming next month. 🙂
Interesting to see this in action with this month’s song. Hard to fully appreciate until you hear it in that context. Great stuff.
That’s good to know and glad you enjoyed this teaser. Was nice to be able to release the full 12 bar version this month. 🙂
Looks like fun, but I see that I’m way behind in the challenges, since I just started. However, I intend to eventually try them all.
Don’t worry too much about catching up. Use them as you like and remember the two-minute challenges are great to dip in and out of like on a rainy day. 🙂
Very cool. Sounds like a drum. Then add the hammer on and pull off and I got the beginnings of a band here! ☺️
Doing the palm mute with hammer ons and pull offs on the e string. Now my thumb is my drummer.
Going back now to learning the fretboard notes and then I’ll come back to this.
Yeah, got to love it when the thumb is the drum! Lots of fun to be had here. Enjoy! 🙂
Very nice! Thankyou!
Cheers, James. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂