Hey I think there are a lot of different ways to do it. Depending on the songs and the player, the X means different things in different tabs. Some are just muted notes. Some are using the inner side of the thumb to slap the bass string while hitting the other strings with your AM fingers. A lot of Candyrat artists and guitarists like Kelly Valleau do that. Or you can do it like Kotaro Oshio or Tommy Emmanuel (in songs like Only Elliot) and use the AM fingers' nails to hit the strings to get a ''percussive" sound. Then for songs like Revolution by Conny Berghall you are hitting other places of the guitar as well, they're also marked as x on the tab.
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