Hi all!

I'm trying to get back to guitar and I've been practicing through guitar fundamentals and now Rock level 1.

All the lessons so far I've managed to do easily with just a bit of practice and repetition which has been great. But for some reason I'm now stuck on this one and can't find a way to do it properly!!

Here is the link to it: https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=19994&s_id=1568

I manage to do the strumming pattern easily with the full open chord.

But when I palm mute the first 2 strokes, the strumming movement is no longer fluid, presumably because my hand was "glued" to the strings for the palm mutes. This makes the chord sound too full and the upstrokes robotic. I also have the feeling Anders is muting the high E string on the Em chord but I cannot see how?

This is an issue I struggled before as I've noticed it as well on the Cindy Lauper - girls just want to have fun tutorial - as soon as I try to mute strings for the "scratchy" sound on guitar 2, the strum stops being fluid.

Do you have any suggestions to overcome this?

Thank you!

Carla