I'm learning to play guitar at over 50. Been on and off for years of frustration to giving up. Well, just recentley purchased a guitar and plan on sticking with it regardless of the frustrations Anything helps. This is a great instructional video. Thanks 👍
This is one of the best teachings I have heard on this, and now it will take practice. Years ago I had played a lot but got stuck mostly in one style, now I just want to break them habits. This has been so hard for me to do now. Now, after watching this, I think I have found some solution to my problem. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
The same effect you are teaching for muting can also be achieved by momentary releasing the pressure on you chord hand (left hand in this case) when strumming.
LOL, I'm new, however, I've never dropped the pick until he mentioned it, and now I've dropped the pick three times before the end of the video. I'm learning. I really like your videos. Thanks.
Bought my first guitar ever 4 days ago ... it was my first time touching a guitar ... and i'm already learning really fast thanks to your great videos ... thaank you so much for sharing all of your experience and wisdom with us !
@V K duuuuuuuude wtf, your comment came in a crazy timing, I swear yesterday I was contacted by a local artist to play with his band for a festival in November ! last 4 years were awesome as hell, and in the last couple of months i've been going to jams, and that's how that artist noticed me and asked me to be in his band. thanks for asking lol !
@V K Thanks man! i started when i was 20, now I'm 24. I would say I am an intermediate who's pushing to achieve a higher level, but for now I can definitly hold my spot in a band. I started on a cheap acoustic guitar ( yamaha F310), but although it's cheap, these low end yamaha guitars come with a great setup which makes it easy to learn on it, after 2 years playing mainly acoustic (rock/blues/pop/even metal lol), I decided to get my first electric (a squire affinity strat). I would say the most important things that I learned in the last 4 years are: 1 - consistency is more important than how long you practice: practicing 20 minutes each day is better than practicing only on weekends for hours. 2 - There is a difference between playing and practicing the guitar: make sur your practice each day, as well as play each day when you can. 3 - be kind to yourself, sometimes as guitar players we feel like we are stuck at a certain level, just be kind to yourself, keep practicing, and trying to improve, and before you know it you will find yourself getting better. 4 - play with other people if you can and learn from watching them play infont of you, especially people that are better that you. being around people that play well will push you to practice more and improve your skills. Good luck in your journey man!
DUDE! I have been stuck in purgatory of guitar playing until this video. It dislodged something missing in my technique Thank you so much mate I just found this channel I've liked and subbed and will continue watching Keep up the great work Timm Australia
Good lesson, but in the last pattern where you mute the strings after the 3rd downstroke, I can't seem to follow that up with an immediate upstroke in order to maintain the same rhythm. There's the muted downstroke....then a pause as I then pick up the rhythm again. My had has to stop in order to mute the strings, so how to do that without disrupting the rhythm? Maybe with more practice, but it's just not happening so far...
Just bought my very first ever guitar and I love this video ;) my fav is the pattern 4 you show here, the constant strumming technique, so sweet! Will be seeing all your videos and pretty sure over time I will master this new guitar to entertain friends and family here in our home !
Don't forget to concentrate on the rythum of the song of you struggle with this listen to the song think about the feeling music is about communicating emotions just like speaking your essentially leaning a new language
That helps me a lot and I 've been playing for a long time .I just been going by ear . But I know about the count . So that'll help me out a lot . I can make up rhythm motions from that way of doing it .
very nice lesson, thanks. You have the floppy wrist style. not everyone can do that. my wrist is very short and rigid. also, the pick must be held lightly, with a real light strum across the strings. this is one style when there are thousands.
You are an awesome guitar teacher and I'm an entry level guitar player don't know, "how to do guitar chords stunning yet?" but on my way to learned with your video - Thank you so much.
8 weeks into playing & I can say the strumming is crucial. Repetition & counting(or a metronome)is also key..helps the motor memory(subconscious). I learned the chords for Hotel California but had trouble transitioning chords while trying to remember the strum..I repetitively learnt the strum & can see I'm getting slightly quicker at it. I think once u learn the chords you should concentrate with the strumming pattern.. repetitively, thts what I'm doing anyway. ✌🎶.
Thanks for the tutorial, i want to ask you something how much time do you recommend to beginners to spend in step number one of strumming patterns before you move to 2 and 3??
When I was first starting out holding on to the pick was an issue. So a hole punch to punch a hole in the center of my picks for better grip. I still use textured picks with custom hole punch in the center to this day.
His left hand stays as normal on the chord. His right hand creates the mute by way of his palm being on the strings as he strikes them. It can be tricky to learn this immediately as the act of muting with your strumming hand can upset your right hand rhythm.
Thanks so much for this lesson maybe Lord Willing i finally get this down after 25 years I been learning everything else then this basic fundamental due to frustrations
This is the first video that has made me confident to actually pick up the guitar I bought where I was offered to be taught and the person reneged and I thought whats the point, I may as well sell it. Now, I can say that the first step is to practice this and teach myself :) Thank you!
My first teacher (many years ago) insisted that I play right handed, I'm a lefty. I blamed him for my failures for a long time, which I realize was stupid, thank God for the internet and You Tube, I have learned more in the last year than I have in the previous 30. Of course, life got in the way, sports, college, love and marriage, and all the rest, but now I play everyday and it's kind of amazing at how much I have been improving. If I may offer some advice, keep your guitar in view, make it the first thing you see when you come home and when you wake up, and instead of watching television or whatever, watch these videos and practice, practice, practice. Also, ignore people like Captain Ron, and shake, shake, shake your guitar, those picks will come out. Happy playing.
Between beginner and rut. Not really a rut i just need to learn strumming and get better at cord changes. I mostly been picking songs without doing cords.
Awesome strumming lesson! You explained everything very well. I'm a woman with small hands and short fingers(!) :( so I can't quite get the muted strum down (as well as trying to form many of the chords!). It will just take a lot more practice for me! Thanks again.
When i strum and switch between chords it sucks... Sounds like that they are in parts no rythm please recomend me..your one video where i can start.... I can play all chords...even barre chords.... Please sir as a teacher... please help your student
D D DU D is a great strum pattern for almost any 4/4 song. Easy to count. Ease in switching comes with repetition. There is no magic or replacement for repetition. Practice changing with out looking at your hand, do it slowly until it gets in grained. You can start the change at beat four just playing open strings for beat four thus givining you more time for the change. As you get better you will pick up speed and not need this technique as often.
….Good info...…...I will take a lifetime to continue learning strumming....but I'm getting by on a lot of songs by using a "4- Square" pattern…...that is....going in a square......or a type of circle.....it works....
One thing I see in this lesson is he is teaching you how to count, "so important". If your teacher dose not teach you how to count, get a new teacher. Count out loud when you are learning to strum this pattern, and when leaning new ones.
Then you need to mention how to count in quarters (1, 2, 3, 4), 8ths (1 & 2&...,) and 16ths (1 e and uh...,). As you get faster, you have to count fewer beats. I play drums. I count in 16ths and very often fills, too.
"I'm going to tell you a little about strumming pattern..." And that's it--everybody tells a little or nothing about it. It's like finding drumming instructions where they talk about holding sticks and nothing else.
I wish someone would teach how to practice striking ONLY the strings needed for a given chord, especially on the upstroke, whether it's 3 strings only, 4, or 5. Depending on the chord, the downstroke has you omitting certain strings at the beginning or top of the strum, i.e. either string 6, or 5 and 6, or 4, 5, and 6. But all remaining strings are strummed down to the 1st string. If this isn't difficult enough, the upstroke is even harder. In chords that don't use all 6 strings, you must stroke the first 3, 4, or 5 strings (which means strings 1, 2, and/or 3 depending on the chord), then avoid having the pick strike strings 4, 5, and/or 6. This seems very difficult, yet no one talks about it. It's overlooked in all the many lesson videos online, yet it's a required ability to keep from including notes in chords that aren't suppose to be heard. In fact, I have yet to find even ONE lesson video that discusses this. The most I've seen is how to wrap the thumb over the 6th string to mute it, thereby allowing the player to keep stroking all 6 strings without worrying about not touching the 6 string, but this seems like a cop out. It doesn't solve the other problems of 3 and 4 string chords, and a muted note is still a faint sounding note that shouldn't be heard at all. Why doesn't anyone talk about this and how to practice it? It seems to be the most difficult aspect of strumming.
if you think, you stink. i also struggled with it but i read that you just have to do it and you'll get it. lo and behold, i did. 70% of the time i hit the right strings. i'm sure with practice it'll be 100%
Have you ever practiced while putting the guitar in your lap. Laying g flat I mean. Looking straight down at it an work your chord chsnge.Just ssying try it some day it m as y help you get a psttern going ounce you get a sound you will pick up on it
I'm trying to learn to many things at once. I like the strumming pattern you have presented here. I been playing for eight months, my frustration with the learning is discouraging me. I'm trying bar chords and strumming. Also trying to learn the freet board. I'm stating this so everyone knows this is not the way to learn what I'm doing. The strumming pattern upwards is hard for me. Don't know why I practice moving my hands all day without a guitar. Learning is frustrating. Nate your information is priceless thanks for doing this. Anyone who makes stupid statements here is just a putz. There's no reason for it. We are trying to learn here and this dude is doing this hard work of teaching us for free. Thanks again for the excellent videos.
Yeah, I've had that problem from time to time. I try not to have any more than 3-4 smaller goals or main practice points going at once. Any more than that and I run the risk of getting overwhelmed. If those are the only things you are working it doesn't sound like you have too much going. You just need to get a practice plan in place, be consistent with your practice, and devote a certain amount of time to each topic in each practice session. Here is a good example: 15 minutes on strumming, 15 on bar chords, 15 on songs, and 5 on fretboard memorization.
It's a simple matter of (unfortunately) practice, practice and more practice. I'm 78 and wish I'd practiced. I have a go when there's a few beers under the belt but it's mainly three chords. It's a trick that impresses the easily impressed but it's not proper guitar playing. Started in the 1950's with an old guitar, a mate with an old guitar, another mate with a tea chest base and we had a Skiffle Group. (Look up Lonnie Donegan). When my youngest son was impressionable I showed off with Rock Island Line, Grand Coolee Dam Nobody's Child (mournful rubbish) and other three chorders. He's put me to shame. Has a music degree, plays in a rock band, plays bass, rhythm and lead guitar. Classical and Spanish too. He practices every day. While you're learning, impress the natives with easy stuff such as 'Boy Named Sue'. I found most Roy Orbison (the real King) songs have easy chords.
I bought a brand new HD 28 Martin to start out on but forgot to buy a pick so I used the only thing I could think of and that was a 12 penny nail. After practicing all day I have many many scratches on the front ,but the pickguard actually fell off and I'm down to one string. But I'm so proud of my achievement. Thank you for your time and effort.
Sir if we get used to the strumming pattern shown in this video...will we be able to make the previous learnt strumming pattern easier or we will forget it?...pls reply
Excellent lesson!
Pretty bad ass, took me a minute..............Thanks
Very good 💓 year's to teach musical in 2014 and 2015
I'm learning to play guitar at over 50. Been on and off for years of frustration to giving up.
Well, just recentley purchased a guitar and plan on sticking with it regardless of the frustrations
Anything helps. This is a great instructional video. Thanks 👍
Really helpful
Saya sangat suka dengan cara penyampaian awak HEBAT terima kasih
I from India🇮🇳🇮🇳 and I watching your all videos you are very good tech guitat
Marvallous...
Nice!
Got up this morning, and still amazed at this, changing chords, different strumming, just listenning to the sound
That's cool. This gal has some practicing to do.
Most tough thing to do on earth.🙏
at @8:25 when he does the mute strum does his left finger need to lift the pressure as well?
So what would you call this strumming pattern
What are chords professions for this song
Thanks
This is one of the best teachings I have heard on this, and now it will take practice. Years ago I had played a lot but got stuck mostly in one style, now I just want to break them habits. This has been so hard for me to do now. Now, after watching this, I think I have found some solution to my problem. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
My compliments, that was really an excellent lesson!
Biggest improvement to my playing, was getting an "egg shaker" helps with the wrist and timing. Very good video👍
Excellent! Thank you so much
The same effect you are teaching for muting can also be achieved by momentary releasing the pressure on you chord hand (left hand in this case) when strumming.
LOL, I'm new, however, I've never dropped the pick until he mentioned it, and now I've dropped the pick three times before the end of the video.
I'm learning. I really like your videos. Thanks.
thank you for your clear instructions and approach!!
Thank you..having a struggle with step5
I don't know why or how this happened, but this strumming pattern really opened up my rhythm, thanks!
Sic! Glad to hear it.
Thanks as a seasoned player I always go back to basics simply because I need a refresher now and then and can learn something from everyone.
You are an excellent teacher and as a new player, you are really helping. Thank you.
Bought my first guitar ever 4 days ago ... it was my first time touching a guitar ... and i'm already learning really fast thanks to your great videos ... thaank you so much for sharing all of your experience and wisdom with us !
@V K duuuuuuuude wtf, your comment came in a crazy timing, I swear yesterday I was contacted by a local artist to play with his band for a festival in November ! last 4 years were awesome as hell, and in the last couple of months i've been going to jams, and that's how that artist noticed me and asked me to be in his band. thanks for asking lol !
@V K Thanks man! i started when i was 20, now I'm 24. I would say I am an intermediate who's pushing to achieve a higher level, but for now I can definitly hold my spot in a band. I started on a cheap acoustic guitar ( yamaha F310), but although it's cheap, these low end yamaha guitars come with a great setup which makes it easy to learn on it, after 2 years playing mainly acoustic (rock/blues/pop/even metal lol), I decided to get my first electric (a squire affinity strat). I would say the most important things that I learned in the last 4 years are:
1 - consistency is more important than how long you practice: practicing 20 minutes each day is better than practicing only on weekends for hours.
2 - There is a difference between playing and practicing the guitar: make sur your practice each day, as well as play each day when you can.
3 - be kind to yourself, sometimes as guitar players we feel like we are stuck at a certain level, just be kind to yourself, keep practicing, and trying to improve, and before you know it you will find yourself getting better.
4 - play with other people if you can and learn from watching them play infont of you, especially people that are better that you. being around people that play well will push you to practice more and improve your skills.
Good luck in your journey man!
DUDE!
I have been stuck in purgatory of guitar playing until this video.
It dislodged something missing in my technique
Thank you so much mate
I just found this channel
I've liked and subbed and will continue watching
Keep up the great work
Timm
Australia
Good lesson, but in the last pattern where you mute the strings after the 3rd downstroke, I can't seem to follow that up with an immediate upstroke in order to maintain the same rhythm. There's the muted downstroke....then a pause as I then pick up the rhythm again. My had has to stop in order to mute the strings, so how to do that without disrupting the rhythm? Maybe with more practice, but it's just not happening so far...
Great video. Strumming & rhythm has been my nemesis. You've given me some great advice to get back into trying to play guitar again.
Hey TheGholiday, I'm glad to hear that you are getting back into guitar.
Thanks for the great lesson, I just found your site and was wondering if your lesson package is available ?
Just bought my very first ever guitar and I love this video ;) my fav is the pattern 4 you show here, the constant strumming technique, so sweet! Will be seeing all your videos and pretty sure over time I will master this new guitar to entertain friends and family here in our home !
Don't forget to concentrate on the rythum of the song of you struggle with this listen to the song think about the feeling music is about communicating emotions just like speaking your essentially leaning a new language
Of the song lol
That helps me a lot and I 've been playing for a long time .I just been going by ear . But I know about the count . So that'll help me out a lot . I can make up rhythm motions from that way of doing it .
Thank you for your videos. They’re very helpful
You are great Tutor.... You explained in easiest way.... Keep doing GOD BLESS YOU
very nice lesson, thanks. You have the floppy wrist style.
not everyone can do that. my wrist is very short and rigid. also, the pick must be held lightly, with a real light strum across the strings. this is one style when there are thousands.
Finally I understand how to make a muted strum. Thank you much!
great video Nate, I recently purchased Guitar System, is this video included? What guitar are you using in this video?
Wow, this was very useful thanks
You are an awesome guitar teacher and I'm an entry level guitar player don't know, "how to do guitar chords stunning yet?" but on my way to learned with your video - Thank you so much.
You are welcome Danny. Thanks for watching.
Vince Vaughn looks so young
8 weeks into playing & I can say the strumming is crucial. Repetition & counting(or a metronome)is also key..helps the motor memory(subconscious). I learned the chords for Hotel California but had trouble transitioning chords while trying to remember the strum..I repetitively learnt the strum & can see I'm getting slightly quicker at it. I think once u learn the chords you should concentrate with the strumming pattern.. repetitively, thts what I'm doing anyway. ✌🎶.
Sounds like you are seeing some good progress J J.
@@MusoraOfficial Why thankyou Mr Guitareo!..It's people like you that give me more inspiration. ✌🎶from London.
I have the 12 string version of this guitar. A Taylor 855ce. It sounds great and plays easily. Nice!
I haven't played that particular model but I'd like too. :D
Excellent video and technique! 👍
Hitting different amounts of string on the upstrokes is an easy way to add some variation, without even moving the fret hand.
Thanks for the tutorial, i want to ask you something how much time do you recommend to beginners to spend in step number one of strumming patterns before you move to 2 and 3??
Untill it feel natural and you don't have to think about it don't give up
Excellent lesson. What kind and model guitar is that?
It's a Taylor 814ce.
Great instructional. You're a teacher as well as a guitar player. Wonderful.
Thank you Charles. I'm glad you liked the video.
When I was first starting out holding on to the pick was an issue. So a hole punch to punch a hole in the center of my picks for better grip. I still use textured picks with custom hole punch in the center to this day.
HR Pickinstuff what the best way to put a hole in ur pick without damaging the pic?
Starting at 8:44 to 9:05 it doesn't look like your left hand fingers are being lifted off the strings in order to mute them.
His left hand stays as normal on the chord. His right hand creates the mute by way of his palm being on the strings as he strikes them. It can be tricky to learn this immediately as the act of muting with your strumming hand can upset your right hand rhythm.
That guitar is a beauty. I have 214 deluxe and it’s lovely; yours must be really great!
Slashley gibbins what model is it
Thanks so much for this lesson maybe Lord Willing i finally get this down after 25 years I been learning everything else then this basic fundamental due to frustrations
Great lesson. The Strumming hand is so important and often gets neglected. Doing these rhythms on a single chord is good to ingrain this.
Thank you... very well explained
Is there a ( easy ) song that I can play with that specific strumming pattern ?
✅💛
This is the first video that has made me confident to actually pick up the guitar I bought where I was offered to be taught and the person reneged and I thought whats the point, I may as well sell it. Now, I can say that the first step is to practice this and teach myself :)
Thank you!
except I just lost 4 picks inside the guitar and cant get them out now :/
A little bit each day and you’ll progress; it’s worth it.
+Tracy Make a rule. Put your pick in the same place every time and turn your guitar up side down and shake. The pick will come out.
My first teacher (many years ago) insisted that I play right handed, I'm a lefty. I blamed him for my failures for a long time, which I realize was stupid, thank God for the internet and You Tube, I have learned more in the last year than I have in the previous 30. Of course, life got in the way, sports, college, love and marriage, and all the rest, but now I play everyday and it's kind of amazing at how much I have been improving. If I may offer some advice, keep your guitar in view, make it the first thing you see when you come home and when you wake up, and instead of watching television or whatever, watch these videos and practice, practice, practice. Also, ignore people like Captain Ron, and shake, shake, shake your guitar, those picks will come out. Happy playing.
Tracy practice until there are 40 in there!
i give this exact same lesson to my students for strumming...
starts at 8:00
Between beginner and rut. Not really a rut i just need to learn strumming and get better at cord changes. I mostly been picking songs without doing cords.
yea he counted no down up down up
It seems to me that steumming is a lot trickier that geting the chords right
great lesson!
Thank-you, Nate; my strum is a bit haphazard and this could help get my form right; it sounds good, too.
Savage video. Thanks a million! This really helped, and is just what I was looking for
Awesome strumming lesson! You explained everything very well. I'm a woman with small hands and short fingers(!) :( so I can't quite get the muted strum down (as well as trying to form many of the chords!). It will just take a lot more practice for me! Thanks again.
Hej, I really appreciate your way of teaching.Thanks a lot !Greatings from Flensburg, Germany
EXCELLENT VIDEO!
Right to the point and with a graphic!!!
Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.
Is that track played at the end available.
When i strum and switch between chords it sucks...
Sounds like that they are in parts
no rythm
please recomend me..your one video where i can start....
I can play all chords...even barre chords....
Please sir as a teacher...
please help your student
D D DU D is a great strum pattern for almost any 4/4 song. Easy to count. Ease in switching comes with repetition. There is no magic or replacement for repetition. Practice changing with out looking at your hand, do it slowly until it gets in grained. You can start the change at beat four just playing open strings for beat four thus givining you more time for the change. As you get better you will pick up speed and not need this technique as often.
Our starter kit series has a section on changing chords smoothly which addresses exactly this issue:
www.guitareo.com/starter-kit
I'm from India. It's helpful lesson bro.keep it up.
Thank you
Great lesson. Thanks Nat
Nice. Thanks
….Good info...…...I will take a lifetime to continue learning strumming....but I'm getting by on a lot of songs by using a "4- Square" pattern…...that is....going in a square......or a type of circle.....it works....
Thanks man
Wondering what the right hand mute/strum thingy is called on the last exercise? Thanks! Great video and videos!
Thanks brother great tutorial as a new guitar player this really helped my game
thanks
Thanks for the lesson. You are a great teacher.
One thing I see in this lesson is he is teaching you how to count, "so important". If your teacher dose not teach you how to count, get a new teacher. Count out loud when you are learning to strum this pattern, and when leaning new ones.
Then you need to mention how to count in quarters (1, 2, 3, 4), 8ths (1 & 2&...,) and 16ths (1 e and uh...,). As you get faster, you have to count fewer beats.
I play drums. I count in 16ths and very often fills, too.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 You can do that if your not singing.
"I'm going to tell you a little about strumming pattern..."
And that's it--everybody tells a little or nothing about it.
It's like finding drumming instructions where they talk about holding sticks and nothing else.
You are one of the best guitar teacher Mr Vince vaughn!keep it up👍
Thanks Mad Brawler.
Taylor? Strange choice
you are really a very amazing teacher...
Thank you.
And here I thought I forgot everything I learnt years ago. My hands still remember!
Elevation Potato , As long as the strum stays in time it does not matter whether if how many down or up strokes, the up strokes are mostly feel.
I wish someone would teach how to practice striking ONLY the strings needed for a given chord, especially on the upstroke, whether it's 3 strings only, 4, or 5. Depending on the chord, the downstroke has you omitting certain strings at the beginning or top of the strum, i.e. either string 6, or 5 and 6, or 4, 5, and 6. But all remaining strings are strummed down to the 1st string. If this isn't difficult enough, the upstroke is even harder. In chords that don't use all 6 strings, you must stroke the first 3, 4, or 5 strings (which means strings 1, 2, and/or 3 depending on the chord), then avoid having the pick strike strings 4, 5, and/or 6. This seems very difficult, yet no one talks about it. It's overlooked in all the many lesson videos online, yet it's a required ability to keep from including notes in chords that aren't suppose to be heard. In fact, I have yet to find even ONE lesson video that discusses this. The most I've seen is how to wrap the thumb over the 6th string to mute it, thereby allowing the player to keep stroking all 6 strings without worrying about not touching the 6 string, but this seems like a cop out. It doesn't solve the other problems of 3 and 4 string chords, and a muted note is still a faint sounding note that shouldn't be heard at all. Why doesn't anyone talk about this and how to practice it? It seems to be the most difficult aspect of strumming.
Gotta learn how to mute specific strings best way to do it, watch John Mayer play he is a master of that well of everything really.
if you think, you stink. i also struggled with it but i read that you just have to do it and you'll get it. lo and behold, i did. 70% of the time i hit the right strings. i'm sure with practice it'll be 100%
Have you ever practiced while putting the guitar in your lap. Laying g flat I mean. Looking straight down at it an work your chord chsnge.Just ssying try it some day it m as y help you get a psttern going ounce you get a sound you will pick up on it
Thx brother, God bless you
yeah that was great . Keep me posted.
thank you , exellent
Awesome stuff!
What taylor are you using btw ? :)
It's an 814ce Joe.
@@MusoraOfficial I have an Epiphone DR-100. I hate it. But I can't afford to pitch it and get the guitar I really want.
I'm trying to learn to many things at once. I like the strumming pattern you have presented here. I been playing for eight months, my frustration with the learning is discouraging me. I'm trying bar chords and strumming. Also trying to learn the freet board. I'm stating this so everyone knows this is not the way to learn what I'm doing. The strumming pattern upwards is hard for me. Don't know why I practice moving my hands all day without a guitar. Learning is frustrating. Nate your information is priceless thanks for doing this. Anyone who makes stupid statements here is just a putz. There's no reason for it. We are trying to learn here and this dude is doing this hard work of teaching us for free. Thanks again for the excellent videos.
Yeah, I've had that problem from time to time. I try not to have any more than 3-4 smaller goals or main practice points going at once. Any more than that and I run the risk of getting overwhelmed. If those are the only things you are working it doesn't sound like you have too much going. You just need to get a practice plan in place, be consistent with your practice, and devote a certain amount of time to each topic in each practice session. Here is a good example: 15 minutes on strumming, 15 on bar chords, 15 on songs, and 5 on fretboard memorization.
It's a simple matter of (unfortunately) practice, practice and more practice. I'm 78 and wish I'd practiced. I have a go when there's a few beers under the belt but it's mainly three chords. It's a trick that impresses the easily impressed but it's not proper guitar playing. Started in the 1950's with an old guitar, a mate with an old guitar, another mate with a tea chest base and we had a Skiffle Group. (Look up Lonnie Donegan). When my youngest son was impressionable I showed off with Rock Island Line, Grand Coolee Dam Nobody's Child (mournful rubbish) and other three chorders. He's put me to shame. Has a music degree, plays in a rock band, plays bass, rhythm and lead guitar. Classical and Spanish too.
He practices every day.
While you're learning, impress the natives with easy stuff such as 'Boy Named Sue'. I found most Roy Orbison (the real King) songs have easy chords.
I bought a brand new HD 28 Martin to start out on but forgot to buy a pick so I used the only thing I could think of and that was a 12 penny nail. After practicing all day I have many many scratches on the front ,but the pickguard actually fell off and I'm down to one string. But I'm so proud of my achievement. Thank you for your time and effort.
Thanks sir
Nate your the boss
Great work! You have really made this so interesting!
Sir if we get used to the strumming pattern shown in this video...will we be able to make the previous learnt strumming pattern easier or we will forget it?...pls reply
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What speed would you suggest if I was to practice strumming with a metronome? I have been practicing daily and am receiving lessons
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Bebopflea the speed you feel comfortable with, then increase gradually.
40bpm
slow as possible.
gradual increase like that other guy said