I'm a beginner, been playing since 2 years now.
One thing that's really been frustrating me is not being able to properly mute unplayed strings.
Especially with distortion on, things get very muddy with certain riffs without proper muting.
I know about the picking and fretting hand techniques and tried practicing playing scales up and down this way (or even just spider exercise), and it gets mentally draining very fast having to pay attention to so many things at once and getting everything to sound 100% clean.
It just feels really insurmountable at the moment.
I especially struggle with the fretting hand, as I have zero feeling for when I am or am not touching the string above the one I am playing.
I've also seen people suggest to ride the bridge with your fretting hand as you ascend / descend strings, but I can't seem to get that to work, as I always have some degree of palm muting going on no matter how far to the edge I rest my hand. If I move it all the way onto the side of the bridge, it is not a comfortable position at all to play, do I don't know what I'm doing wrong there. I have an Epi Les Paul for reference.
I've asked some people about muting and they say I shouldn't worry about that yet, and that eventually they just do it without even thinking about it.
Any advice on how to learn and practice this?
I'm feeling really lost, have watched a lot of videos on the specifics of the technique but I just can't seem to do it.