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@stevieblues One thing that really helped me was to mute the strings with the fretting hand held lightly over the strings and then just go to town with strumming. I would stick with just the down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up (1, &, 2, &, 3, &, 4, &). Then once I got comfortable with that, I would move onto a new strumming pattern, such as skipping the & beat at the beginning and just doing 1, 2, &, 3, &, 4, &.