Everything You Need To Know About Strumming Patterns (Beginner's Masterclass)

Beginner Strumming Patterns Masterclass for Guitar

In this in-depth masterclass I’m going to teach you everything you need to know as a beginner about strumming patterns on the guitar. I’ll take you from the very basics all the way to how to create your own strumming patterns. This will be the foundation for every rhythm you play on the guitar. I wish I was taught this information when I was a beginner.

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[a.ismail]

iam a self taught guitarist by watching random videos. I wish I had these 5 years ago. I never used metronome just learnt a lot of songs from letsplayguitar . I am really grateful for finding this. I realised I do not know counting and mess up hard strumming patterns. Things are really worse. Only if i had known this, things would have been very different. No one ever teaches this. thank you for this. I'm very grateful. I don't usually comment but this is coming from my heart. I swear I'll buy your course some day once I start earning

[srrprasadh]

Awesome teaching.iam 64 yrs. Old started learning guitar. This video helps me a lot. Nice guidance for beginners.

[navoneel]

I wished Move Forward Guitar still uploaded his videos. They're so much in-depth and I can just imagine how much work they put into making these videos. Thank you so much

[russj]

This by far is the BEST tutorial for beginners. These guys deserve a Grammy for teaching future music icons who happened to catch this video and absorbed a ton of knowledge. Thank you for putting this up for everyone to see and learn. Keep up the good work!

[ericoneill]

Without a doubt the best lesson on YouTube . It's basically 6-8 paid sessions compacted into an hour of easy to follow theory and practice. Thanks so much

[michaelkrailo]

As a drummer and budding guitar player, I can say this is spot on training for learning to strum well. It is foundational to do it all in time to your foot, click, backing track or drummer. The right hand fluidity of motion is what makes the music sound musical. You're comment on how many beginners struggle with this one aspect is true. For some reason it is either not taught well or just skipped over hoping it comes by some magic but the best way as you showed here is to eliminate most of the left hands work and focus on the right hand motion and counting with all those patterns as exercises. Then it will all start to fall into place. One other thing I'll add is that it is not necessary or even desirable to play all strings on the upstroke. Only strike the first 2 or 3 strings only on the up strokes. Very well explained in this one hour lesson.

[JohnSmith-lcgq]

Just start playing guitar at 50 and came across with this video and definitely the best I’ve ever seen and the most comprehensive and I’m a slow learner
Thanks very much

[mns]

Speaking for myself of all the great guitar tutorials on YouTube , the lessons on the channel are real instruction without a sales pitch.

[cmav]

This is one of the few guitar tutorials I've ever finished and enjoyed learning. This has increased my interest in playing guitar. Thank you!

[gatherud]

I have been watching different videos but none is like this. The best teacher ever very articulate and makes every step easy to learn and understand.

[TheDevinShamel]

This was a great lesson! I am self taught at guitar and the first strumming pattern I learned became sorta engrained as my “go-to” no matter what I play, so a lot of my stuff ended up sounding the same no matter what progression I made. Amazing lesson!

[villematilainen]

First of all, thank you for by far the best guitar learning videos!!! My playing went forward and it's the first time ever that I'm actually playing the guitar. I am 40 years old now and for about 15 years I have been trying to get an answer to that very clear and yet difficult question, how to play the guitar? I have read thousands and watched thousands of videos, books, etc. Unbelievable video, you almost already have art. Let's play. I almost forgot, 10years learning, in one night

[tonymccormick]

Yes, really good stuff. Some of it might seem obvious, but for a beginner, this is pulling back the veil and revealing the new world

[joseluishuerta]

Very generous soul!! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, patience, and enthusiasm for teaching guitar. God bless you!!

[Orbitaga]

I m 43 years old, just bought my first guitar and started learning on my own. Its been a few weeks now. I don't know if these chords are so common or you chose them "randomly", but they are the 4 chords from Alice in chains, nutshell, which inspired me to start learning guitar and the first song i try to learn.

[augustwest]

This is what I've been looking for in a strumming lesson. Thank You for your hard work in putting this video together.

[Tang.Nguyen]

One of the most complete videos on YouTube 👍. Thank you for taking time to share it with everyone 🙏

[acbproductionfamilyvideos]

I appreciate the attention and effort you put in your strumming lesson. I woke at 2:30 am and couldn't sleep. I thought of listening to something on YouTube and your video was the first thing I saw. I started to listen and did until it ended. Most of the time I was looking at the drawings to better understand.
Thank you for awakening in me the desire to continue striving to learn how to play the guitar.

[canlished]

Even thriller movies I watched by skipping.
But this 1:01:16 length..those who are eager to know will not skipp..
Thankyou bro.
I hope you explain all the timings and meters this way..💕💕💕😍

[alfredoruano]

It’s always a great time learning from this guy. So easy to comprehend, I’ve bought some of his courses already and I try to watch the ads to help him. Thank you so much!