Basic Guitar Strumming Tips For Newbies
Strumming always seems to be an issue when you’re starting out playing guitar. I’ve done a couple different lessons on strumming before, but I though this time I would back things up to just about as basic as we can get.
If you’re struggling with your strumming, I recommend practicing with a metronome.
For learning basic chords and strumming patterns, Jamorama is a pretty good place to start. Click here for my review of Jamorama.
Don’t feel bad about keeping it basic -- make sure you can master a strum before making it more complicated. The worst thing you can do is always be attempting to do more than you’re able, and thus never really playing in time. Rhythm needs to be built slowly, but accurately and precisely.
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Hi
Your lessons are great but you did ask for comments.
Since this is a lesson for beginners, an even simpler strum pattern would be one strum per barre.Assuming it is 4/4 time that would be play a chord once , count to 4 , then move on to the next chord. For beginners this would give them the “time” that they need to form the next chord.
The next strum pattern would be ( using 4/4) time a ” 2 times per barre ” strum pattern on the 1 and 3 counts. Again to give beginners time to form the next chord. After that, 4 strums per barre as you suggest.
One strum per barre is a legitimate strum pattern and as simple as it gets, which is perfect for a beginner.
Keep up the good work.
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