Muting on "Don't Give Up"

Anyone here have Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up” locked in? I"m having trouble muting the A string when I play the double stops on the D and G string in the verse. I can shift my thumb from the pickup to the E and then the A string, but it’s tough shifting back to play the initial note of the next phrase on the E. Right hand muting doesn’t seem to work at all for me on this.

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You are playing it too fast. Slow it down and your hand will find the path to mute it. I had the reverse problem trying to get 8 count sustain on an Open E. It took me a long time to find the right technique for me but once I found it it just clicked.

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