3 SIMPLE Exercises will FIX Your Strumming and RHYTHM

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In today's lesson, I'm going to teach you a simple concept that will fix bad strumming and rhythm. The concept is simple:

You wave your arm down and up.
You make contact with or avoid the strings.

That's all there is to it!

We're going to practice strumming with some exercises designed to help you develop your sense of rhythm.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 - INTRO
0:56 - CALIBRATION
3:32 - MAKING PATTERNS
7:04 - THE NEXT GEAR

We begin with a little bit of a warm up, we're going to calibrate our arm by simply strumming down and up over and over again. As we do this we can count the strokes " 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + "

The numbers are the downstrokes, the "+" are the upstrokes.

We want to focus on relaxing and producing smooth steady counting and moving our arm steadily.

Eventually, we want to stop counting the "+" and just counting "1234," while still performing the same motion with our arm so you can think about it as four down ups.

Once you can do this. You simply need to miss the strings a couple times here and there, and you will create patterns.

Don't believe me?!

I demonstrate that there are three components that make up pretty much any strumming pattern. We use these to recreate the most common strumming pattern ever. We learn to play it, first by saying it.

Once you can say it rhythmically, you simply tell your hand to do those motions as you move it down and up. And then, if you can, instead of saying the motions, count "1234", placing one of those three components to each number.

Finally, I quickly show you how to deal with longer strumming patterns and how eighth note counting transforms into 16th note counting.

Take care, see you next time!
-James

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This helped a lot. I sat for approximately 40 minutes trying to figure out strumming for the first time. Maybe I have this thick skull thing, but at the end of the day I made it. Thanks for breaking this subject into small sections so even dumbasses like me got it! Youre great

MegaKarotin
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Hi sir. Watching your lessons from central Kenya. You are a great teacher.

calebmacheria
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Hello James, Good Job. Thank you very much!

hemanthakularatna
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Merci 🙏 thank you for sharing ❤️guitar

ZolaBolingo
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Hello James! I'm 10 months into guitar and I'm almost finished with your ebook. Any tips on how to move forward? Thank you so much!

nd
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Why do half the people say strum with your arm and half the people say strum with your wrist? I'm having issues strumming with a consistent force and just missing some strings because I'm trying to play softly?

bwilliamspc
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Hello. Would love a tutorial on Candlebox’s Cover Me. Thanks!

benndickson
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Will you teach me ..can you give some class..

amitkumar-cysw
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The best advice I can give to make 4-5 distinguishable sounds on the guitar and put them in random order and make a drum out of it and practice with a metronome.

I don't think upstrums are particularly important to sound cool. It will come naturally.

You can replace upstrum with drumming on the guitar for example. You will able to make music out of everything.

artit
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Not suppose tonmove your arm. Just hand

Riverviewnewfie
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If you are just missing the string, you will have no dynamic that makes the music enjoyable

artit