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You might have to change a bit the way you're strumming the strings.
As you're only playing on the bottom 3 strings, you should focus on your strumming hand in order to reduce your movement, maybe you go too far. This is not a "full chord" strumming, you should stop your movement sooner in order to avoid touching the 3 string you don't want to play.
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You can press strings 4,5 and 6 with finger 1, and mute strings 1,2 and 3 with finger 3 or finger 4 (about 2 frets up from finger 1)
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With the electric guitar, I make the power chords using just the index finger to press the 6th, 5th and 4th strings. With the rest of your index finger you can mute the top three strings, and you still have the other fingers to add more notes if you ever need them.
It might be a little more difficult doing that on an acoustic guitar because of the string ...
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By using your middle, ring and little finger on 6th, 5th and 4th strings respectively, you can still use the index finger to mute the top three strings.Try it and let me know.
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