I cannot thank you enough. I have been struggling for so long with strumming. My friend tried teaching me but that was no help. I tried other videos on youtube, and today, in about half an hour, after watching all three videos, i can FINALLY STRUM! Thank You! Thank You!! THANK YOU!!!
One of the most useful videos I've seen on how to strum. I love that you encourage us to deaden the strings and just focus on the percussion. I think that's what usually trips me up, because my attention is in two places, now I can focus on just the one thing. Thanks.
Cheers for the feedback.You're so right. The strumming arm gets neglected a lot, yet is actually the coolest part. Once these techniques are nailed, you'll love what's coming up.
Hey Mark, I've been teaching elementary PE for 12 yrs. so I understand that teaching is a skill and you absolutely have it. Someone could be great at what they do, but to teach it is a craft. Great job! Just started play a week ago and found your videos today...best out there.
I'm so glad you asked such a cool question. My next videos will cover exactly his issue. Any time spent on guitar is great, but more is not necessarily better. We all are busy in life, so whilst watching tv is actually what I used to do when I started out. The ad breaks were great. It all depends how urgently we want to progress. As long as you LOVE IT...how can it be a waste of time.
I gotta say, you are answering a lot of my questions , i been studying drums and bass just to learn how to apply rhyme pattern on my guitar. Thank you!
This is great. I had a guitar for ages (I've got two now - who needs to eat, huh?) but really not given it the attention it deserves because I've found strumming a really unnatural process. I watched this, picked up the guitar and picked up the pattern in about two minutes. I still need to work on making my chords sound less muddy but this really helped break through my strumming block.
Really you re the only person on RUclips who takes his time to explain correctly how to strum and also you video are short I do like it Simple but super efficient thank you so muchhhhhhhh !
Mark thanks for the lesson, wish I could play for another 20 years as I'm over 70 now. I think I am catching on. Could never get the idea of strumming, before ,but am now ,good fun.hugs.
Thnx heapz Mark... it's my second day holding the guitar...this time I really wanna be able to play... you are a big great help... knowing just a couple different strumming patterns makes it more fun to learn and so much easier. All I need now is to know a few chords. Thank you
Hey Mark! ...I stumbled at your lesson by accident. One could say, that I have been playing on a guitar just for fun - years, know most of the chords, but my strumming shall we say ... turned me off...did not pay to it much attention...until now. My friend if I may call you one :o) with your patient, down to earth very clear tutorial you opened up to me (and to anyone else willing to learn) a new world of music...no...I am not sucking up to you :-)...just trying to simply express my wholehearted gratitude for sharing your skills as a patient understanding music teacher, that with his 8 plus minutes on youtube gave me (and others) heaps of fun time with my guitar.
Really appreciate the way that you break down the strumming pattern in the Rock strum video. I never got past the basics of learn guitar and this is great! Thank you!
Thank you for the lesson it seems to be working for me but still have trouble changing chords quickly and being smooth. How about the strumming pattern for Blues? Thanks again. Frank
You are awesome Mark. Love your instructions. Would you please provide an easy to follow strumming technique for Folsom Prison Blues. I understand that the song is done with 3 chords, E, A, and B7. But the strumming technique is what makes it so special.
Thanks mate for the videos. You have a very comprehensive teaching style. The genius is in the kurt simplicity. Easy to follow. quick to pick-up and apply. My question is; you say there are 5 essential strumming styles. You provide more than 5. Are they 1: Rock, 2: Slow Rock, 3: 6/8, 4: Funk-rock, 5: Rockabilly? I have to thank you. Ive been tinkering around with guitars since I was 10-13. I gave it up when I was 14. I gave up because I without any instructions I was trying to play lead like Jimmy Page. I had no patience back then, so I took off on my skateboard to go surfing. I picked up the guitar again in 1998 after a car accident. With my leg in a cast I had more patience. But my rhythm patterns has been erratic at best. I thought it would come naturally without instruction. I like what i do with blues lead, and some other stuff using exotic scales and modes. However, my rhythm patterns seem off (sucks). I found your videos trying to find a comprehensive 6/8 technique. I think what you provide here will help me in leaps and bounds. Id like to think some of my lead/single note stuff sounds keltic. You provide an explanation in how to use proper rhythm. This was lacking in my playing. I simply want to play open mics here in the Long Beach California area. I lost it once, and had to stop out of fear as I was playing because i felt i truly sucked haha. I think with using your techniqes and "programing" [Zen approach] will give me confidence to perform in front of people (or maybe not haha). I see that you like bluegrass. I have a buddy with a great bluegrass band. I like to call all these local Long Beach guys into roots and bluegrass as Surfgrass bands haha. Seems half the guys i know in these bands surf. Ryan, buddy's band; Moonsville Collective played out in the desert at this awasome place in the middle of nowhere. a couple weeks ago. Nobody around until you find this Pappy and Harriets, then there are 100s of people inside eating BBQ, and digging the bands. I woke up the next morning in my Jeep with a good hangover in the high desert next to two horses. Moonsville Collective Vid was shot last year at Pappy and Harriets. Their management is in Nashville. They often tour from Nashville to Colorado and all points Check em out, buy a CD for your dad haha. Moonsville Collective - Blue Money Grove ruclips.net/video/tqwUwdido0o/видео.html Pappy and Harriets www.pappyandharriets.com Thanks again
Thank you. I watched this ages ago when I was first learning but it just didn't click. Now I've got used to certain patterns I think it's finally clicked...just need to practice. Happy happy...thank you so much!!
Hi mark thanks for this. Really worked. I want to play how you started the video with changing the chords. Can you advise which chords you used and at what point do you change chords please?
Hi Mark, I saw a video that Paul McCartney did, and he had a click track that was going about 240 bpm and I thought that would drive me crazy, but while I am still working on getting the up beats spaced correctly I tried setting my metronome at 120 (also called "a half Paul") and used every other beat as the 1, 2, 3 and the other beat as the up beat. that may be easier for me as I am using an old wind up metronome so the right beat is one and the left beat is and. Anyway, as always, and being sub-genius, it took me a while to figure it out and get on the beat, but at the same time, I realized that was what Paul was doing, nobody has quarter notes going by 240 beats per minute, those were eighth notes (it might have been 280, it was fast.) Anyway, this helped me, it may help someone else. Keeping time may be the only way, but it is tough to learn, a whole other sill, like learning where all the notes are on the neck, but harder. For the record, I do have two electronic metronomes but you can't see the arm, and they have an odd click on the 1 that is not helpful when I am using 8 beats per measure. Thanks for the help.
Mark thanks again for the lessons, I love the little diddy or tunes you play at the beginning of your strumming lessons could you give a little more detail maybe at the end of the lesson so we can practice that...thanks
Hi Mark, THanks a lot for your intruction, it's so excited. I would like to play the intro demo but I can't. Could you do a favor by showing the detail of that. Best regards from Vietnam.
You have really simplified strumming thanks ever so much. THE RYTHM / TIMING has been driving me crazy but with your explanations' it is making sense. THANKS
Hi Mark, thanks a ton for such wonderfully explained videos. These lessons are very helpful for absolute beginners like me. One basic, absolute newbie beginner question, - how many strings do you need to hit on the upstroke? All 6? Or just a few, if so which few, - is it just maybe the 1st, 2nd, 3rd strings only on the way up? Please help! Thanks again for these lessons. Cheers and much love!
Been playing for about 6 months and I jumped onto a Keith Richards bandwagon very early. Kinda worked.. I say kinda. But these lessons have really helped thanks mark 😊
Excellent video Mark and your style is very unique, I like it and also the way you teach step by step. So easy for beginners like me to understand. Just a quick question for you, when you strum up and down, do you go through all the strings or is it based on the chord you are using? I can now do this strumming after several practise, but just want to make sure I am doing it right. Thanks, Sri
Wow, you are so clear and so precise. It's almost impossible to fail. You are by far the best teacher on youtube and I hope you channel grows bigger. Thanks alot and you have just made yourself a new subscriber!
I have been practicing along with your Strumming Pattern #1 and #2 videos and I really like the way you break your instructions down, especially for the beginner. Very helpful and much appreciated! Any future strumming instructional videos coming out?
Hi Mark! This is such a helpful video on strumming patterns. You really break it down and make it so straight forward with the visual and your explanation. So happy I found your videos. One of the best here on youtube!
your guitar lesson is very useful for me sir. i am perfect with the strumming pattern after practicing lot of times . what are the chords used ? and pls let me know how to change the chords so quicky like you do ..
This video helps me a whole lot... I am lost when it comes to strumming... You play in a motion easy to understand, so I will play this video repeatedly until I have it memorized... Thank you, and I will subscribe to your You Tube page so I can learn more from you... Aho!
Hey Mark... you need to know you have taught some basic strumming patterns to the world's worst self-taught guitarist. We have all heard of those unfortunates who have no sense of rhythm. Count me in as among the most needy. But your lessons have taught me enough to be able to check off one item on my bucket list which is to play, however poorly, for a sing-along around the campfire. You will never know how grateful I am. Thank you!
Hi Mark, thanks for a great lesson. I looked at another guy who said he was teaching but he played the whole lesson at performance speed and that was it. He was counting, but who knows what went with each count? You can learn to do something that sounds about right that way, but nothing on the beat. Slow, then faster seems the best way, much less frustration. I guess it is boring to do it slow once you have time down, but it is hard to start fast (I have video of McCartney teaching a lesson and pulls his headphones off so we can hear the click track he is using and it is the same as the high hat is hit, like 240 bpm or so, the 1/8 notes at 120. I guess that gets slow after a few years, but the first time you hear it, it is pretty scary. A bit like taking your first driving lesson at 150 mph, "Okay, 6th gear now." Thanks for starting where we can hear the beat and know if are about on it, or just a tiny bit behind. At 240 who knows?)
These strumming patterns are awesome. I actually created an account just so I could subscribe to your channel. Thanks so much! What would be really great is if for each pattern you could mention the title of a song which actually used the pattern in the lesson. That way we could relate it to something and really reinforce it - and learn a song in the process!
great lesson, I had to work this out myself when I was first learning as a result I developed lots of bad habits that are still with me today. For some reason I have a tendency to get ahead of the beat on the second upbeat that follows the first miss down beat, the slower I go the worse it is. The frustrating thing is that playing with a metronome really does not help, it only serves to point out that I am off beat and make me feel like shit. Thanks for shareing
Love your channel Mark. I started with Classical Guitar and just recently began chords... Can't sing and play. How do I start and get out of not playing just according to notation?
Sir.. I am a big big fan or urs.. Hatsoff to you.. Your stuff on the strumming patters and infact the 5 basic strumming patterns are just gr8.. i wish if you could upload some similar beginner stuff on chords quick movement and the stuff on pull offs and hammer on.. thanks
All can play well ! but only FEW can Teach good. all i can say mark- honestly, this vid was awesome. my 1st strumming day. will never forget who taught me !!! :) keep up your awesome work. im onto your next tutorial :)
Mark ! really u r awesome in explaining things... I really loved it... I jst wanna say u tat if could provide me list of songs (along with chords) it wld be more useful to try each strumming pattern wit songs.... pls let me know if u hve anything lik tat... u r awesome man
I also want to ask something, I'm a classical guitar player. I usually use my fingers to pick the strings. So, I kinda confuse with the strumming stuffs. Can you suggest what the first thing I need to learn beside holding the pick.
Can you do a lesson on which video game teaches guitar the best? I played Call Of Duty for a few months and enlisted in the U.S. Marine core at the level of Lieutenant General but, since I already had extensive video game training, got bored really quickly so I retired and picked up EA Sports NBA LIVE 16 and, after weeks of extensive training with this, was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft. These days I have lots of time on my hands, especially when we're on the road. The other players hit the gym and practice a lot but, with professional NBA Live experience on my resume, I don't need any of that so I was thinking of learning guitar. Anyways, which game would be the best to master everything about guitar?
There's one coming on 'Barre Chords' very soon. The index finger is fine for strumming, however it's great to have more than one way to play. So maybe give it a go for a few weeks, if you don't like it, you can always go back to your old method :)
hey mark. I'm struggling with my strumming. I play left handed but I wanted to know if your videos will help me :) as you play right handed. You defy know your craft and that's why I came to your channel out of all the channels I've seen you are best. Hope you can reply soon thanks Douglas :) p.s GO KIWIS !! Haha
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Just watched the how to hold a plecrum stream. Excellent. i learnt more watching you in10 minutes than any other video I've seen . Thanks you so much
I cannot thank you enough. I have been struggling for so long with strumming. My friend tried teaching me but that was no help. I tried other videos on youtube, and today, in about half an hour, after watching all three videos, i can FINALLY STRUM! Thank You! Thank You!! THANK YOU!!!
One of the most useful videos I've seen on how to strum. I love that you encourage us to deaden the strings and just focus on the percussion. I think that's what usually trips me up, because my attention is in two places, now I can focus on just the one thing. Thanks.
you explain in the easiest way for a total beginner to be able to follow. Thank you very much
Cheers for the feedback.You're so right. The strumming arm gets neglected a lot, yet is actually the coolest part. Once these techniques are nailed, you'll love what's coming up.
Hey Mark, I've been teaching elementary PE for 12 yrs. so I understand that teaching is a skill and you absolutely have it. Someone could be great at what they do, but to teach it is a craft. Great job! Just started play a week ago and found your videos today...best out there.
I'm so glad you asked such a cool question. My next videos will cover exactly his issue. Any time spent on guitar is great, but more is not necessarily better. We all are busy in life, so whilst watching tv is actually what I used to do when I started out. The ad breaks were great. It all depends how urgently we want to progress. As long as you LOVE IT...how can it be a waste of time.
I gotta say, you are answering a lot of my questions , i been studying drums and bass just to learn how to apply rhyme pattern on my guitar. Thank you!
Just started learning guitar and i wanna thank you for your videos. You are really the best thing since sliced bread!
The way you teach is so simple and very easy to follow. Thank you very much.
This is great. I had a guitar for ages (I've got two now - who needs to eat, huh?) but really not given it the attention it deserves because I've found strumming a really unnatural process. I watched this, picked up the guitar and picked up the pattern in about two minutes. I still need to work on making my chords sound less muddy but this really helped break through my strumming block.
Glad you are enjoying it.
Great news... I loved doing these vids for everyone. Sounds like a lot of people needed a little help strumming.
Really you re the only person on RUclips who takes his time to explain correctly how to strum and also you video are short I do like it
Simple but super efficient thank you so muchhhhhhhh !
Mark thanks for the lesson, wish I could play for another 20 years as I'm over 70 now. I think I am catching on. Could never get the idea of strumming, before ,but am now ,good fun.hugs.
Thnx heapz Mark... it's my second day holding the guitar...this time I really wanna be able to play... you are a big great help... knowing just a couple different strumming patterns makes it more fun to learn and so much easier. All I need now is to know a few chords. Thank you
Hey Mark! ...I stumbled at your lesson by accident. One could say, that I have been playing on a guitar just for fun - years, know most of the chords, but my strumming shall we say ... turned me off...did not pay to it much attention...until now. My friend if I may call you one :o) with your patient, down to earth very clear tutorial you opened up to me (and to anyone else willing to learn) a new world of music...no...I am not sucking up to you :-)...just trying to simply express my wholehearted gratitude for sharing your skills as a patient understanding music teacher, that with his 8 plus minutes on youtube gave me (and others) heaps of fun time with my guitar.
Really appreciate the way that you break down the strumming pattern in the Rock strum video. I never got past the basics of learn guitar and this is great! Thank you!
hi Mark. I have been struggling with strumming. Hey you have made it simply. Great Teacher. Keep it up
Cheers mate. It's amazing how something so simple, yet important, isn't really covered by most systems.
Sure mate!! Don't let being left handed be a block...it's all the same, just a mirror of which arm does what. Kia kaha bro!
Thank you for the lesson it seems to be working for me but still have trouble changing chords quickly and being smooth. How about the strumming pattern for Blues?
Thanks again. Frank
I am just learning and this is a great lession. I am practicing this pattern and I am picking it up!
You are awesome Mark. Love your instructions. Would you please provide an easy to follow strumming technique for Folsom Prison Blues. I understand that the song is done with 3 chords, E, A, and B7. But the strumming technique is what makes it so special.
That's not only acceptable... it's the norm. Every professional guitarist does it my friend:) Nice observation, and very well described by the way.
Thanks mate for the videos. You have a very comprehensive teaching style. The genius is in the kurt simplicity. Easy to follow. quick to pick-up and apply.
My question is; you say there are 5 essential strumming styles. You provide more than 5. Are they 1: Rock, 2: Slow Rock, 3: 6/8, 4: Funk-rock, 5: Rockabilly?
I have to thank you. Ive been tinkering around with guitars since I was 10-13. I gave it up when I was 14. I gave up because I without any instructions I was trying to play lead like Jimmy Page. I had no patience back then, so I took off on my skateboard to go surfing. I picked up the guitar again in 1998 after a car accident. With my leg in a cast I had more patience. But my rhythm patterns has been erratic at best. I thought it would come naturally without instruction. I like what i do with blues lead, and some other stuff using exotic scales and modes. However, my rhythm patterns seem off (sucks).
I found your videos trying to find a comprehensive 6/8 technique. I think what you provide here will help me in leaps and bounds. Id like to think some of my lead/single note stuff sounds keltic. You provide an explanation in how to use proper rhythm. This was lacking in my playing. I simply want to play open mics here in the Long Beach California area. I lost it once, and had to stop out of fear as I was playing because i felt i truly sucked haha. I think with using your techniqes and "programing" [Zen approach] will give me confidence to perform in front of people (or maybe not haha).
I see that you like bluegrass. I have a buddy with a great bluegrass band. I like to call all these local Long Beach guys into roots and bluegrass as Surfgrass bands haha. Seems half the guys i know in these bands surf. Ryan, buddy's band; Moonsville Collective played out in the desert at this awasome place in the middle of nowhere. a couple weeks ago. Nobody around until you find this Pappy and Harriets, then there are 100s of people inside eating BBQ, and digging the bands. I woke up the next morning in my Jeep with a good hangover in the high desert next to two horses.
Moonsville Collective Vid was shot last year at Pappy and Harriets. Their management is in Nashville. They often tour from Nashville to Colorado and all points Check em out, buy a CD for your dad haha.
Moonsville Collective - Blue Money Grove ruclips.net/video/tqwUwdido0o/видео.html
Pappy and Harriets
www.pappyandharriets.com
Thanks again
Great to hear from you ay. It's comments like that that make it all worth while. Cheers
Excellent video. Well explained and easy to follow. I will practice this often and look forward to the next video. Thanks.
Thank you. I watched this ages ago when I was first learning but it just didn't click. Now I've got used to certain patterns I think it's finally clicked...just need to practice. Happy happy...thank you so much!!
+Angie this guy is so helpful :)
Definitely. There's so many cool things to cover.
Hi mark thanks for this. Really worked. I want to play how you started the video with changing the chords. Can you advise which chords you used and at what point do you change chords please?
The Jamorama team and I are very excited too. Cheers mate
Thanks Mark! I really struggle with strumming but you break it down so even I can understand it. I am really pumped about learning this. Thanks......
Amazingly helpful. Thank you for being so clear.
Hi Mark, I saw a video that Paul McCartney did, and he had a click track that was going about 240 bpm and I thought that would drive me crazy, but while I am still working on getting the up beats spaced correctly I tried setting my metronome at 120 (also called "a half Paul") and used every other beat as the 1, 2, 3 and the other beat as the up beat. that may be easier for me as I am using an old wind up metronome so the right beat is one and the left beat is and. Anyway, as always, and being sub-genius, it took me a while to figure it out and get on the beat, but at the same time, I realized that was what Paul was doing, nobody has quarter notes going by 240 beats per minute, those were eighth notes (it might have been 280, it was fast.) Anyway, this helped me, it may help someone else. Keeping time may be the only way, but it is tough to learn, a whole other sill, like learning where all the notes are on the neck, but harder. For the record, I do have two electronic metronomes but you can't see the arm, and they have an odd click on the 1 that is not helpful when I am using 8 beats per measure. Thanks for the help.
Mark thanks again for the lessons, I love the little diddy or tunes you play at the beginning of your strumming lessons could you give a little more detail maybe at the end of the lesson so we can practice that...thanks
Thank you so much. This is what I've been not getting for so many years. You break it down very nicely. Big help. Those patterns were driving me nuts.
Thanks so much..struggled with the pick for ages..sussed it thanks to you! Legend
Hi Mark, THanks a lot for your intruction, it's so excited. I would like to play the intro demo but I can't. Could you do a favor by showing the detail of that. Best regards from Vietnam.
I believe this was a video I used to get me on my way with my guitar journey. Thank you, Mark.
You have really simplified strumming thanks ever so much. THE RYTHM / TIMING has been driving me crazy but with your explanations' it is making sense. THANKS
Hi Mark, thanks a ton for such wonderfully explained videos. These lessons are very helpful for absolute beginners like me.
One basic, absolute newbie beginner question, - how many strings do you need to hit on the upstroke? All 6? Or just a few, if so which few, - is it just maybe the 1st, 2nd, 3rd strings only on the way up? Please help!
Thanks again for these lessons. Cheers and much love!
Been playing for about 6 months and I jumped onto a Keith Richards bandwagon very early. Kinda worked.. I say kinda. But these lessons have really helped thanks mark 😊
Mark is a really good teacher i just joined jamorama site it looks ace keep up the good work mark
You've just made me twice as happy:) Cheers for the post.
Welcome aboard!! Thanks for taking the time to say so....I really do appreciate it:)
Excellent video Mark and your style is very unique, I like it and also the way you teach step by step. So easy for beginners like me to understand. Just a quick question for you, when you strum up and down, do you go through all the strings or is it based on the chord you are using? I can now do this strumming after several practise, but just want to make sure I am doing it right. Thanks, Sri
This was so helpful to me you just made my week. Thank you!
thank you so much your teaching is awesome it really help a lot more power and Godless mr.Mark
Wow, you are so clear and so precise. It's almost impossible to fail. You are by far the best teacher on youtube and I hope you channel grows bigger. Thanks alot and you have just made yourself a new subscriber!
I have been practicing along with your Strumming Pattern #1 and #2 videos and I really like the way you break your instructions down, especially for the beginner. Very helpful and much appreciated! Any future strumming instructional videos coming out?
Fantastic. Keep me posted on your progress.
your videos helped me out a whole lot I learned things twice as fast thanks for that :)
thank you for posting videos like this!! im just learning how to play and this is helping me.
hey...i have learned so much from you....thanks to you that i have learned a couple of rhythm beats.....hope....so thanks to you......!
Hi Mark! This is such a helpful video on strumming patterns. You really break it down and make it so straight forward with the visual and your explanation. So happy I found your videos. One of the best here on youtube!
your guitar lesson is very useful for me sir. i am perfect with the strumming pattern after practicing lot of times . what are the chords used ? and pls let me know how to change the chords so quicky like you do ..
This video helps me a whole lot... I am lost when it comes to strumming...
You play in a motion easy to understand, so I will play this video repeatedly until I have it memorized...
Thank you, and I will subscribe to your You Tube page so I can learn more from you...
Aho!
Mark thank you so much for the strum lesson.
Hey Mark... you need to know you have taught some basic strumming patterns to the world's worst self-taught guitarist. We have all heard of those unfortunates who have no sense of rhythm. Count me in as among the most needy. But your lessons have taught me enough to be able to check off one item on my bucket list which is to play, however poorly, for a sing-along around the campfire. You will never know how grateful I am. Thank you!
Mark, thanks you very much indeed for your lessons.
I just got a guitar, excited to learn it. Any practice tips for absolute beginners?
Very helpful lesson, plus your approach is very positive and encouraging. I've put your page on my best lessons list.Thanks mate.
Thanks for this i am struggling with strumming and this helps
Hi Mark, thanks for a great lesson. I looked at another guy who said he was teaching but he played the whole lesson at performance speed and that was it. He was counting, but who knows what went with each count? You can learn to do something that sounds about right that way, but nothing on the beat. Slow, then faster seems the best way, much less frustration. I guess it is boring to do it slow once you have time down, but it is hard to start fast (I have video of McCartney teaching a lesson and pulls his headphones off so we can hear the click track he is using and it is the same as the high hat is hit, like 240 bpm or so, the 1/8 notes at 120. I guess that gets slow after a few years, but the first time you hear it, it is pretty scary. A bit like taking your first driving lesson at 150 mph, "Okay, 6th gear now." Thanks for starting where we can hear the beat and know if are about on it, or just a tiny bit behind. At 240 who knows?)
thank you so much, i love your videos, they are so clear and easy to follow, exactly what i need
That's a pretty huge compliment mate, cheers for that. So many great tutors out there doing the youtube thing:)
Love this lesson. Great explanation with the drum beat.
Thanks so much!
These strumming patterns are awesome. I actually created an account just so I could subscribe to your channel. Thanks so much! What would be really great is if for each pattern you could mention the title of a song which actually used the pattern in the lesson. That way we could relate it to something and really reinforce it - and learn a song in the process!
Hi Mark. Nice to meet you. Great video lesson.. Thanks for the 5 patterns for strumming. Really helps.
Mark,
Thanks! This series on strumming is exactly what I was looking for!
Great teacher, thanks Mark!!!
Thank you these strumming videos are brilliant. The tic toc method really helped. Cheers
You make everything easy to understand, thanks a lot :)
Thanks Mark! I just discovered your videos and was hooked by your teaching style. I subscribed right away. Thanks for the help!
Woo hoo. Thanks for subscribing. Soo much easier that way to keep in touch with all the new stuff coming out
Excellent explanation for this rhythm...thank you!
great lesson, I had to work this out myself when I was first learning as a result I developed lots of bad habits that are still with me today. For some reason I have a tendency to get ahead of the beat on the second upbeat that follows the first miss down beat, the slower I go the worse it is. The frustrating thing is that playing with a metronome really does not help, it only serves to point out that I am off beat and make me feel like shit. Thanks for shareing
Love your channel Mark. I started with Classical Guitar and just recently began chords... Can't sing and play. How do I start and get out of not playing just according to notation?
Sir.. I am a big big fan or urs.. Hatsoff to you..
Your stuff on the strumming patters and infact the 5 basic strumming patterns are just gr8.. i wish if you could upload some similar beginner stuff on chords quick movement and the stuff on pull offs and hammer on.. thanks
All can play well !
but only FEW can Teach good.
all i can say mark- honestly, this vid was awesome. my 1st strumming day.
will never forget who taught me !!! :)
keep up your awesome work.
im onto your next tutorial :)
Cool lessons... I love your way of teaching...
Thanks Mark, you are a person very valuable
Mark ! really u r awesome in explaining things... I really loved it... I jst wanna say u tat if could provide me list of songs (along with chords) it wld be more useful to try each strumming pattern wit songs.... pls let me know if u hve anything lik tat... u r awesome man
Great lesson, thanks Mark!
I also want to ask something, I'm a classical guitar player. I usually use my fingers to pick the strings. So, I kinda confuse with the strumming stuffs. Can you suggest what the first thing I need to learn beside holding the pick.
Was pretty easy for me to get the strum beat :) thanks!
Strumming has been the weakest part of my game . . . but that is about to change. Great lessons, beautifully broken down. Thanks Mark.
Awesome! Thanks Mark, helped a lot. I have seen you on songpond and Jamarama, love the way you teach!
Great video's mate. You are one of the best on RUclips! Don't stop making video's!! :)
Can you do a lesson on which video game teaches guitar the best? I played Call Of Duty for a few months and enlisted in the U.S. Marine core at the level of Lieutenant General but, since I already had extensive video game training, got bored really quickly so I retired and picked up EA Sports NBA LIVE 16 and, after weeks of extensive training with this, was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft. These days I have lots of time on my hands, especially when we're on the road. The other players hit the gym and practice a lot but, with professional NBA Live experience on my resume, I don't need any of that so I was thinking of learning guitar. Anyways, which game would be the best to master everything about guitar?
That's soooo cool. Thanks for the comment. More to come for sure.
And also would like to thank you for the video. I struggled with strumming a lot and your videos were spot on and really helped me :)
There's one coming on 'Barre Chords' very soon. The index finger is fine for strumming, however it's great to have more than one way to play. So maybe give it a go for a few weeks, if you don't like it, you can always go back to your old method :)
this was so much helpful for me!
hey mark. I'm struggling with my strumming. I play left handed but I wanted to know if your videos will help me :) as you play right handed. You defy know your craft and that's why I came to your channel out of all the channels I've seen you are best. Hope you can reply soon thanks Douglas :) p.s GO KIWIS !! Haha
Thanks for this mark I can strum now thanks to ur video
You're a legend man...thanks for commenting. You made my day:)
Mate, this is brilliant.
This is great! I was able to follow everything you said in this video. Questions answered! Thanks