SRV and String Muting

My favorite YouTube guitar teacher is Marty Schwartz of GuitarJamz.com.  He's personable, funny, and both a good player and a good teacher.  He's also prolific on YouTube - he must have hundreds and hundreds of video lessons, ranging from scales, to blues licks, to funk playing, to song tutorials.

Marty posted tutorials on two Stevie Ray Vaughn songs this week that I've spent a little time working on (and have bookmarked to make sure I dn't lose track of them):  "Cold Shot" and "Couldn't Stand the Weather".

Going through the two songs, the notes and the chords just aren't that hard - the hard part on both is the string muting.  The pick (right) hand moves up and down across all six strings like a metronome - back and forth, hitting all six strings.  The fretting (left) hand has to finger the notes you want, and also mute all the strings you don't want.  Marty shows how to do it, and it really does sound like SRV.

It's not easy to do, at least at first.  I can now kinda sometimes do it, and it's a great feeling to actually hear it come out sounding right, but I need a lot more practice before this will feel natural (and really sound good.)  The key, as with most things, is to start slow - really slow - painfully slow - no, even slower than that - and not go faster until you can play it right at that speed, every time.