Wow! That's fascinating. As a beginner I never even knew this technique existed and assumed all those sounds were two separate guitars. This was great!
they are usually two guitars, bands try to keep things tight, these type of strumming is very nice if you are a solo artist but playing in a band is a very different experience
OMG this sound was joy to my ears. I am so excited and moved to learn how to do this one. You are marvelous in how you break this down into something I can reach and someday hope to play.
I've been playing a long time and have always had a problem with targeting. This is very helpful and these patterns sound great and would work for my original material. Thank you!
This is why Justin is one of four RUclipsrs I actually give directly to. I wish I had the resources to do more, but I can't, so the four I choose are the top shelf of the guitar teaching for me. The others are Ben Eller, Marty Schwartz and Mike from Art of Guitar. Really Justin is the only one you need, but the others have some unique content and are very easy to follow. Yes, there are a hundred others that are great teachers as well. Those work for me specifically
Excellent lesson, as usual, Justin. As you say at the end, be sure to use it in your playing, not just as an exercise. While knowledge is good, the ability to apply that knowledge can be so valuable.
Man it's just really true.....if u pick up the instrument and play it every day even just 15 min here 30 min there over a string of days the brain does this crazy amazing job of taking over with the muscle memory stuff kicking in to where it's like playing THROUGH you! 🤙🏼
It's amazing how you time these lessons exactly right in the course. Ive been wondering about how this worked for a little while now and it is not even that very hard.
Justin!!! THANK YOU!! You just upped my game considerably! I started playing a little over 2 years ago. I zoomed. I also play-perform 9 other instruments; but guitar is my newest. Hence the "zooming" ...lol...Now, I'm hitting low Intermediate level. Strumming, singing, performing...playing out...but I've had to back my train up. I literally put the cart before the horse, so the cart got to market first! lol...This little bit of instruction gives me added edge while I focus on tge more mundane technical things Ivebignored: scales, circle of 5ths, transposing, and fingerpicking. THANK YOU!!!!🤗🤗🤗
This is really useful advice! I will be playing two years come March. I’ve explored trying to target strings while strumming for at least the last six months - and arguably even further back before I consciously realized it thinking back on the songs I was trying to play. In hindsight it helped to: 1) When I first started playing, I didn’t know about Justin and was using Fender Play, Yousician, and the Gibson (then known as Zoundio) app with songs arrangements for beginners that started teaching players to pick individual notes of a song melody without ANY strumming (first on a single string, then working up to 2, 3, and more strings). Those courses slowly incorporated doing the opposite where students only were playing rhythm strumming arrangements for the same songswithout picking individual notes (similar to what you find in Justin’s mobile app). In the last six months, that’s where I really started playing arrangements that started combining both. I didn’t start off with Justin until I stumbled across him about a year into my journey, so I don’t know whether his courses have this sort of progression - however, I do know that his mobile app focuses on strumming chords in the area where you can play along with a backing track (I’m not talking about the course videos). Yousician and Gibson’s apps definitely do this method best with their gamification approach and striving to always beat my own score or compete with others students’ scores - getting some sort of playing feedback and accountability really makes a huge difference. Fender Play has a similar profession in skills but it’s missing the immediate feedback element. I am hoping Justin’s app will start to offer a similar gamified approach with a similar progression (in addition to the current casual playing a long without pressured feedback, which encourages players to experiment and try things on their own!) because it really helped me begin to shape my picking accuracy while strumming. It’s still a work in progress, but the progression above helped me do it so much faster and with more confidence. 2) I didn’t initially make an effort to mute open strings when I started playing new open chords. Once I got precise with those chords, I allowed myself to make mistakes. Doing both of these things helped me build an awareness of where the strings are. Then once I was precise when open chords and started experimenting with other chords or picking out individual notes in between, I only muted strings that are absolutely necessary. Like I never mute the E and A when I play an open D, nor do I need to because my strumming has become precise where I confidently only strike the correct strings. However, when I play a “rock” G chord the way Justin prefers, I have to mute that A since I can’t have that open string ringing out. Nobody really instructed me to do it this way - it just sort of naturally happened. I hope this advice helps others, and perhaps Justin will take my suggestion to add a gamification element and opportunities for picking melodies on individual strings as outlined above into his app’s course progression - and add the ability for the app to listen to the guitar and provide some kind of score/feedback.
These lessons seem to come around at the perfect time. I've been trying to do the Paint It Black riff for ages. Been trying to do it with all down picks for some reason
Love this Justin. I've just moved over to your course from another online tutorial and the progress being made is night and day. This is exactly the kind of music I'm wanting to learn. Almost finished Grade 1 (decided to start right from the start again after originally being taught classical guitar many years ago). This is the motivation to push on and get to Grade 3 and beyond. Keep the videos coming. Really like your way of teaching.
thank you sir. i hope you realize how much you have helped me and so many people, and tbh it goes way beyond just playing guitar, you have given me a new confidence in myself. 🕊🌲🎸☯️🌌
Justin, thank you for this particular lesson. I needed to switch from playing "Right-handed over to Left-handed." And I can assure you it has not been easy. But now that I'm finally beginning to hear my timing/rhythms sound something like music... aka. Melodies hear n feel. I find myself desperately in need of this lesson. Again, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU...!!! You are a great teacher. Wish I had met or found you years ago.
I’m 58, Been Playing for only 14Mo.s, about 5 hours per day average, Everything I have learned is from RUclips, This Particular Piece of information, was the Missing Link…Instantly Changed my playing. Thank You! I enjoy learning from You.
I remember this from the old course, and I think I said this exact same thing in either the comments or the forums, but there is 1 song that helped me big time get comfortable with this technique. Wonderful Tonight. If I would mess up the picking pattern I would strum, however muscle memory from the picking pattern would kick in & I would do this subconsciously. Now I'm attempting to learn bluegrass & picking the melody while strumming. Oh boy is that fun :) Great lesson for sure, and this technique is useful when you mess up a picking pattern :D
@@dakotahstr oh yeah, most definitely. It happened by accident but then I worked on that happy accident & now I can do it fairly decently. Not Justin good yet :)
Wow, this is awesome, and gives me immediate result (well, I know what to practice, and it sounds cool, the family will be glad). I've always been afraid to switch from strumming to picking, and this is a achievable stepping stone. Thank you sir!
Thank you for this lesson. I've played the guitar for a while, and while I can play a 12-bar blues ok, my strumming technique is not very good. Must strumming lessons are kind of boring, this one keeps my interest as it actually sounds like your playing something that sounds like a song and not just aimlessly strumming, and offers areas to explore. Great stuff.
Wow, fantastic. Now I understand John Fogerty's style so much better. Now my playing is showing some signs of life. Thanks Justin. As always, You Rock Dude.
Anchoring is especially hard for me to adapt and I know that will help with accuracy. I'll try a little slower and see if I can get a better rhythm going. Thanks for breaking this down.
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Oh wow! Thanks Justin. I stumbled across this lesson on FB and it made me drool. Your tone on the strat in this lesson brought 😢, beautiful. Thanks for everything I’ve learnt via your app and the online lessons. It’s been an awesome 20 months.👍
Hi Justin, Very cool lesson! Been having this issue on hitting one string during the strum .. Will give this a go! as always thanks! Helps that these exercises sound beautiful too! Stay safe
This lesson just made my playing 200% more interesting. Well, I still have to practice more on it, but it's definitely got me out of just playing basic strumming patterns.
Dear Justin!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩 Amazing lesson!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩 You are the greatest of all!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩. 😍 😍 😍 Thanks a lot for the excellent lesson and your professional way of doing this. Keep on going...... I really appreciate yours lessons. One by one.
I get lost in the counting when I start picking individual strings but this helped a lot. One guy that does this a ton is Noel Gallagher. His touch is very underrated.
Can you recommend songs which are using this kind of „pattern“ or (easy) songs where it fits best? I‘m always more motivated with having a song to practice 😅 thanks in advance. I lovvvvve this thechnique 😇
I can not thank you enough for helping me in my guitar journey! Since picking up the guitar last December and not knowing anything, you have guided me to things i only dreamed of doing. And again, thank you for this! Best guitar teacher on the Internet right here!
Thanks for this great lesson Justin. I think this will consume a major portion of my time the next months... However, one negative point to mention here: How the hell can you make all these techniques look so easy when showing them to us??? It's sometimes kind of frustrating... ;-))
Great exercise and great sounding. I wonder should we use a thin pick or a medium. A bit difficult ( not so accurate) with a thin one but it is usually used for strumming
*This lesson is part of my Beginner Guitar Course - Grade 3.* Full program here: www.justinguitar.com/grade-3
Seems like the discussion pane on the website isn't loaded yet. This is great though.
Hi, I just bought my new puppy. He always barks when I play a note or try to record.. any tips?
Wow! That's fascinating. As a beginner I never even knew this technique existed and assumed all those sounds were two separate guitars. This was great!
Thank you! I appreciate your feedback. :)
they are usually two guitars, bands try to keep things tight, these type of strumming is very nice if you are a solo artist but playing in a band is a very different experience
You are right, Josh, this lesson is awesome!
OMG this sound was joy to my ears. I am so excited and moved to learn how to do this one. You are marvelous in how you break this down into something I can reach and someday hope to play.
I've been playing a long time and have always had a problem with targeting.
This is very helpful and these patterns sound great and would work for my original material.
Thank you!
This is why Justin is one of four RUclipsrs I actually give directly to. I wish I had the resources to do more, but I can't, so the four I choose are the top shelf of the guitar teaching for me. The others are Ben Eller, Marty Schwartz and Mike from Art of Guitar. Really Justin is the only one you need, but the others have some unique content and are very easy to follow. Yes, there are a hundred others that are great teachers as well. Those work for me specifically
Marty is a go to for me as well. I'd also add Griff Hamlin (excellent structured content and blues focused)
Excellent lesson, as usual, Justin. As you say at the end, be sure to use it in your playing, not just as an exercise. While knowledge is good, the ability to apply that knowledge can be so valuable.
Man it's just really true.....if u pick up the instrument and play it every day even just 15 min here 30 min there over a string of days the brain does this crazy amazing job of taking over with the muscle memory stuff kicking in to where it's like playing THROUGH you! 🤙🏼
It's amazing how you time these lessons exactly right in the course. Ive been wondering about how this worked for a little while now and it is not even that very hard.
Justin!!! THANK YOU!! You just upped my game considerably! I started playing a little over 2 years ago. I zoomed. I also play-perform 9 other instruments; but guitar is my newest. Hence the "zooming" ...lol...Now, I'm hitting low Intermediate level. Strumming, singing, performing...playing out...but I've had to back my train up. I literally put the cart before the horse, so the cart got to market first! lol...This little bit of instruction gives me added edge while I focus on tge more mundane technical things Ivebignored: scales, circle of 5ths, transposing, and fingerpicking.
THANK YOU!!!!🤗🤗🤗
This is really useful advice! I will be playing two years come March. I’ve explored trying to target strings while strumming for at least the last six months - and arguably even further back before I consciously realized it thinking back on the songs I was trying to play. In hindsight it helped to:
1) When I first started playing, I didn’t know about Justin and was using Fender Play, Yousician, and the Gibson (then known as Zoundio) app with songs arrangements for beginners that started teaching players to pick individual notes of a song melody without ANY strumming (first on a single string, then working up to 2, 3, and more strings). Those courses slowly incorporated doing the opposite where students only were playing rhythm strumming arrangements for the same songswithout picking individual notes (similar to what you find in Justin’s mobile app). In the last six months, that’s where I really started playing arrangements that started combining both.
I didn’t start off with Justin until I stumbled across him about a year into my journey, so I don’t know whether his courses have this sort of progression - however, I do know that his mobile app focuses on strumming chords in the area where you can play along with a backing track (I’m not talking about the course videos). Yousician and Gibson’s apps definitely do this method best with their gamification approach and striving to always beat my own score or compete with others students’ scores - getting some sort of playing feedback and accountability really makes a huge difference. Fender Play has a similar profession in skills but it’s missing the immediate feedback element. I am hoping Justin’s app will start to offer a similar gamified approach with a similar progression (in addition to the current casual playing a long without pressured feedback, which encourages players to experiment and try things on their own!) because it really helped me begin to shape my picking accuracy while strumming. It’s still a work in progress, but the progression above helped me do it so much faster and with more confidence.
2) I didn’t initially make an effort to mute open strings when I started playing new open chords. Once I got precise with those chords, I allowed myself to make mistakes. Doing both of these things helped me build an awareness of where the strings are. Then once I was precise when open chords and started experimenting with other chords or picking out individual notes in between, I only muted strings that are absolutely necessary. Like I never mute the E and A when I play an open D, nor do I need to because my strumming has become precise where I confidently only strike the correct strings. However, when I play a “rock” G chord the way Justin prefers, I have to mute that A since I can’t have that open string ringing out. Nobody really instructed me to do it this way - it just sort of naturally happened.
I hope this advice helps others, and perhaps Justin will take my suggestion to add a gamification element and opportunities for picking melodies on individual strings as outlined above into his app’s course progression - and add the ability for the app to listen to the guitar and provide some kind of score/feedback.
These lessons seem to come around at the perfect time. I've been trying to do the Paint It Black riff for ages. Been trying to do it with all down picks for some reason
Love this Justin. I've just moved over to your course from another online tutorial and the progress being made is night and day. This is exactly the kind of music I'm wanting to learn. Almost finished Grade 1 (decided to start right from the start again after originally being taught classical guitar many years ago). This is the motivation to push on and get to Grade 3 and beyond. Keep the videos coming. Really like your way of teaching.
You're really good. I'm not too much in the mood for guitar these days. But seeing you playing always gets me going. Fantastic. Thank you.
thank you sir. i hope you realize how much you have helped me and so many people, and tbh it goes way beyond just playing guitar, you have given me a new confidence in myself. 🕊🌲🎸☯️🌌
Glad to hear it!
Justin, thank you for this particular lesson. I needed to switch from playing "Right-handed over to Left-handed." And I can assure you it has not been easy. But now that I'm finally beginning to hear my timing/rhythms sound something like music... aka. Melodies hear n feel. I find myself desperately in need of this lesson. Again, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU...!!! You are a great teacher. Wish I had met or found you years ago.
thanks justin! ive been doing your course for 10 months now and i still enjoy learning guitar because of your enthusiasm!
I’m 58, Been Playing for only 14Mo.s, about 5 hours per day average, Everything I have learned is from RUclips, This Particular Piece of information, was the Missing Link…Instantly Changed my playing. Thank You! I enjoy learning from You.
This guy is the best teacher on the internet.a brilliant imagination for guitar lessons.the ones that are relevant!
Well done Justin 👍
This video is right on time. I need this exercise so bad. Love exercises that sound musical. Does that make sense. Thanks, Justin.
Absolutely! Happy trails. :)
I’m about to give this a shot right now. Then I gotta dive back into the theory course. Thanks Justin!
Happy trails!
Here comes the sun by the beatles springs to mind with this.
I remember this from the old course, and I think I said this exact same thing in either the comments or the forums, but there is 1 song that helped me big time get comfortable with this technique. Wonderful Tonight. If I would mess up the picking pattern I would strum, however muscle memory from the picking pattern would kick in & I would do this subconsciously. Now I'm attempting to learn bluegrass & picking the melody while strumming. Oh boy is that fun :) Great lesson for sure, and this technique is useful when you mess up a picking pattern :D
So there's hope for me yet? Thank goodness!
@@dakotahstr oh yeah, most definitely. It happened by accident but then I worked on that happy accident & now I can do it fairly decently. Not Justin good yet :)
Try this in different keys and using sus2, sus4, 7th and different combinations and imbellishments. Beautiful sounds.
Wow, this is awesome, and gives me immediate result (well, I know what to practice, and it sounds cool, the family will be glad). I've always been afraid to switch from strumming to picking, and this is a achievable stepping stone. Thank you sir!
Go for it!
Thank you for this lesson. I've played the guitar for a while, and while I can play a 12-bar blues ok, my strumming technique is not very good. Must strumming lessons are kind of boring, this one keeps my interest as it actually sounds like your playing something that sounds like a song and not just aimlessly strumming, and offers areas to explore. Great stuff.
Glad it helped!
Wow, fantastic. Now I understand John Fogerty's style so much better. Now my playing is showing some signs of life. Thanks Justin. As always, You Rock Dude.
Rock on!
Neil Young songs such as "Cowgirl In The Sand" are especially good for trying this technique.
Anchoring is especially hard for me to adapt and I know that will help with accuracy. I'll try a little slower and see if I can get a better rhythm going. Thanks for breaking this down.
as tears go by ,,, great song for strum picking
Very cool! Great video! Thanks 🙏🏾
That’s seriously addictive.If you pick the pattern and strum each side it still sounds awesome 👏 even if your picking is slow .
ありがとうございます！
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I always thought two guitars were required to make this sound possible! Very excited to try it out! Thank you!
Love your way of teaching Justin!
Sounds like magic to me! I don't know if my mind can tell my fingers how to do this!
Thanks for teaching this. I've heard this when others play but never knew how they were doing it.
Glad to help!
Oh wow! Thanks Justin. I stumbled across this lesson on FB and it made me drool. Your tone on the strat in this lesson brought 😢, beautiful. Thanks for everything I’ve learnt via your app and the online lessons. It’s been an awesome 20 months.👍
My pleasure! Cheers mate :)
This is superb. I’m playing about with Like a Stone at the minute and this is just the ticket. Cheers.
Hi Justin, Very cool lesson! Been having this issue on hitting one string during the strum .. Will give this a go! as always thanks! Helps that these exercises sound beautiful too! Stay safe
Happy to help!
Great to greet me on a snowy Sunday morning, thanks Justin.
Cheers :)
This lesson just made my playing 200% more interesting. Well, I still have to practice more on it, but it's definitely got me out of just playing basic strumming patterns.
Paint it black, pick that out Justin. Great lesson thanks
Awesome. Thanks for including the tab.
Glad you like it!
Hi Justin,
You've laid this whole thing out beautifully - just what I was looking for!
Top work - thanks heaps!
Dear Justin!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩 Amazing lesson!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩 You are the greatest of all!!! 🎩 🎩 🎩. 😍 😍 😍 Thanks a lot for the excellent lesson and your professional way of doing this. Keep on going...... I really appreciate yours lessons. One by one.
Still the best guitar teacher on the internet! Thanks very much Justin.
I get lost in the counting when I start picking individual strings but this helped a lot. One guy that does this a ton is Noel Gallagher. His touch is very underrated.
This is right up my street!! As i’m doing loads of chord melody stuff thanks to you. Thanks justin
The tune sounds great. I definitely want to learn it.
Exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks Justin!
Enjoy!
Been looking forward for a video on this for ages. Thanks!
YES! I've got loads of requests. Happy to help! Cheers.
Thanks! In my opinion this is one of the best sounding guitar techniques, so many awesome songs use it
Agree! :)
Thanks Justin! As a beginner I’ve been kinda of struggling with strumming and hitting individual strings so this really helped thanks! :))
Happy to help!
That was so helpful. I used to loathe alternating strumming and picking, but this went really smooth. I had fun. Thank you
Picking individual notes is so hard >_< it feels impossible to not miss a few
I literally tried looking into this last week but couldn't find a helpful video. You are the man Justin! Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Good video..... always come with something very interesting 🤔 Thanks Justin...you are doing a great job......... Enjoyed this
Love this! I’m a beginner, but this looks doable! Thanks Justin!! 🎸
Love these types of tutorials, the chord embellishments I have been trying and getting along with so going to give this a go!
Go for it! :)
Pure awesomeness. Love this lesson.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Guitar tone was really great in this (and playing obviously)! Any ideas how to get similar tone?
Awesomeness! Thank you.
You sound amazing Justin 👏👏👏
Really Like this one !! Thank you Much Justin !!
Wow that escalated quickly. Great fun, but this will take some repeating to get right. Great lesson
wonderful lesson!
That sounded beautiful! Looking forward to learning and practicing this :D Thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
Thank you Mike!
That sounds incredible. Even more so contrasted against my shoddy stumming.
Wonderful lesson. Thanks so much.
sweet variations to just strumming, thanks Justin!!
My pleasure!
Great vid teacher thank you for this lesson, thank you Justin 💯
Thank you very much Justin ... Great instruction!!!!
I'm not here yet but this has given me something to look forward to
Thanks
Thank you Sameer! Appreciate ur support.
Awesome! I’ve been looking for decent rhythm technique. This is just what I needed!
Great lesson 👍
Just great!! Sounds beautiful!! Tks again!
Thank you too!
Wow, what a cool lesson. Thanks J!
Glad you liked it!
great lesson thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
Very helpful and exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Subscribed!
Brilliant as usual. I didn’t catch on that it was only up picks til you said it at the end
wow that sounds amazing.. and you make it look so easy..
Single bar 6:34
Second pattern 7:02
2 bars 1:40
Can you recommend songs which are using this kind of „pattern“ or (easy) songs where it fits best? I‘m always more motivated with having a song to practice 😅 thanks in advance. I lovvvvve this thechnique 😇
someone else in the comments suggests neil young songs with these
Ridged Anchor , I know a few of them, cockney rhyming slam like.
I can not thank you enough for helping me in my guitar journey!
Since picking up the guitar last December and not knowing anything, you have guided me to things i only dreamed of doing.
And again, thank you for this!
Best guitar teacher on the Internet right here!
Danke!
Thank you for your support! Cheers :)
Thanks for this great lesson Justin. I think this will consume a major portion of my time the next months... However, one negative point to mention here: How the hell can you make all these techniques look so easy when showing them to us??? It's sometimes kind of frustrating... ;-))
Thank you Justin. I'll take effort on this. Really great.
Great lesson! Is there a similar one but without using a pick, fingers only?
Thank you so much Justin
12:27 I didn't know you were a painter as well!
Great exercise and great sounding. I wonder should we use a thin pick or a medium. A bit difficult ( not so accurate) with a thin one but it is usually used for strumming
Awesome tutorials.
But I wonder why this is in the fingerstyle guitar lessons playlist.
While watching so easy but while practice,soo hard sett
I think the ability of mixing melody and rhythm/strumming is very useful, isn't it?
Justin beautiful strumming 👍👍👍
awesome! thanks!
Cool lesson. Been working on lots of Neil Young lately and these exercises will clearly help me out. Cheers!
This is a little difficult at first, but I think it will make me a better player.