I can see what ure getting @.
Dude why teh hell do we mute in teh first place when playing wit high gain? See the other strings tend to 'ring' out when u don't want 'em to. This happens when u either
-hit an open string when ure not suppose to and that kills teh other notes u be playin.
-or when u either pull of or skip to anotha string - then teh sting keeps ringing!

To avoid this i actually mute with both my left and right hands. Firstly use the palm of ure right hand (sorry ure picking hand for those lefties) to mute the strings above the string ure playing (i think u heard this b4).
This is done by resting ure picking hand a bit from the bridge. But the string ure playing on should not be muted.
Eg lets say u bee playing this bit from FADE TO BLACK where ure on the second string (B) ---7- - 8- 10 --- then urr picking hand would be slanted like " / " so that all teh top strings stay muted especially the third and forth strings which were previously hit. Use ure fretting hand to mute the high e string by using ure fretting hand to lightly rest on the e string when playing the notes on teh B string


but lets say ure doing the aprpeggio in the intro solo u know the
-----14--19--14----------15-14--------------
--15-------------15-------------15--------
---------------------16--------------14-----
-----------------------------------------
----------------------- -----------------

then u'd actually mute the top 4 strings (g,d,a,E) and sort of roll ure right hand to mute the last ringing notes. But ontop of that
U HAVE TO LIFT UP WITH URE FRETTING HAND SO THAT URE STILL TOUCHING TEH STRINGS BUT LIGHT ENOUGH SO THAT U MUTE THEM.

ALSO
Lets say u moved on with fade to black and moved on to ONE - by metallica (similar in style ) and tehres that nifty tapping solo which is p!ss easy. What u do is tapp with ure picking hand and use ure fingers not the pick . When u get into teh tapping position use ure thumb to hold onto teh fret board and mute teh rest of teh strings with ure thumb and teh back of ure palm. since the tapping solo is only on twe strings u got nuttin to worry about.

good luck wit dese. I'm in teh middle of a programming class so ignore all the typos.
hope this helps heaps.

If u have questions post one up to prod11 - he's like my most recent student he should be able to help u out wit stuff by metallica, pantera, megadeth, slayer yada....
ciao

[Edited by munqy on 09-25-2002 at 12:52 AM]