how do professional guitasists avoid the squeaking sound that during chord changes?

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how do professional guitasists avoid the squeaking sound that during chord changes?

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Answer 1

Often they don’t. I suggest you listen more closely to some recordings with guitar in them. Here are couple of examples:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o93qp4jBhY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o93qp4jBhY)

Veruca Salt’s “American Thighs” is loaded with squeaky chord changes. Some of it is deliberate, I think, but definitely not all.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0eciLEQVmQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0eciLEQVmQ)

This is an even better example, as it’s a classical guitarist. I think this recording is fantastic, but nonetheless you can hear quite a lot of string noise.