Now that you know the inner workings of strumming, here are 10 essential strum patterns so that you can have options when starting to strum along with a song.
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I like the variations…..pretty cool Tony!
This was so helpful. Thank you so much!
enjoyed this overview of strumming and will make use of it for sure!
completed, but will be coming back.
i agree, nice variety! Maybe i couldn’t see clearly but it didn’t look like you were using a pick, or could I just not see it?
Wow – these lessons will help me in the TAC DC strumming directions and rhythm. Thanks so much.
Having just had shoulder replacement surgery two months ago, I am finding that in order to do any palm muting, I literally have to lay the guitar down on its back in my lap in order to place my palm on the saddle. My palm simply cannot reach it when holding the guitar in the customary manner.
I’m hoping my flexibility improves with more P/T.
I found these patterns very interesting. I always have a hard time fitting a pattern into a song, I’m hoping you might address this by showing some patterns matched with some song examples?
Yah I agree, would luv to see that.
This course was very helpful. I have a couple of small areas to work on. Like getting my brain and hands to coordinate together. My brain says do this but my hand wants to do the opposite. This lesson will be part of my warm up session before jumping into the daily challenge.
Thank you!
I am not so good at understanding the tablature but wow so great to get this stuff so quickly under ones fingers!! Thanks for your intelligence Tony!!!!!!!!
nice variety, one of the patterns was confusing, with the G, you were also playing the 3rd fret on the low E, without seemingly moving the finger over, hmm.
Great course
Love this course! Thanks!
really really useful
Very informative Lesson
Thank you so much.Great lesson, Tony
It was a good week Thankyou Tony
Good…10 patterns. Can play some…will work on the others.
Alright alright alright.. I am noticing less tattoo’s here so perhaps we should add an arm tatt for each course progression 🙂 Kudos!
a good lesson to add to my daily warmup routine. thanks
So many strumming patterns. So many to try on songs I know and make them more interesting to play. This is a keeper lesson for learning and playing Thanks Tony!
thoroughly enjoyed very helpful. I will try to challenge myself by practicing them often
Strumming, Strumming + Strum. Loving, Loving + Love this.
Great week.
A good series of lessons, that is the first time I have had some focus on right hand techniques and rhythms.
Played for years and years and never had a solid understanding of strumming patterns, I always just winged it. Good stuff!
I’ve been playing guitar for a long time, but I figured I should always go through every lesson Tony has to make sure I don’t miss anything, and it was a good thing that I did. There were several picking patterns in there that I have never tried.
Sorry for my last comment – it must have been a temporary glitch. When I went back into that lesson, the problem did not show up. All I can do is shrug my shoulders. And THAT is a good way to get back into the shoulder exercise I l earned in my previous set of lessons. LOL
Interesting note: When going over the very last of the ten essential strumming patterns, the video repeated froze when Tony started to play the first measure of the tenth pattern. When I clicked on the progress bar just a smidgeon past that point, it resumed and continued just fine. But it was a repeatable problem.
Very interesting set of lessons. Opened my eyes to options.
Great exposure to all the different strumming patterns, Cross picking and Bluegrass Rhythms aRe my favorites! Punk was fun too!
I’m gong over to the jam a long skill class
to see if I got it!
Great series of strumming lessons. I needed to learn these. Thank you, Tony!
Tony, thank you so much for your terrifically designed lessons and your warm, friendly, and encouraging teaching style. You have brought me forward in my learning so quickly to places I didn’t think I could go, and I’m so grateful.
On this lesson, one detail that threw me for a moment is at 04:04 when you SAY to pick down on the E and up on the A and down on the D and up on the G, but you PLAY down on the E and up on the D and then down on the G and up on the B.
After a little head scratching, I figured out why what I was playing (based on your verbal instruction) didn’t sound like what you were playing, I watched what you were doing, and that’s all I needed. But if you’re planning to make any updates to your site or lessons, you might bookmark this for the ToDo list.
Again, I’m deeply grateful to have found your online lessons, and I’m having a ball playing my way through them. Big hugs of gratitude!
Some intriguing patterns here that I will need to experiment with. I’m surprised not to see the one that I have encountered by far the most often in my “dabbling” over the past few years: D DU UDU, or what some teachers have referred to as the Calypso pattern or the Ultimate pattern (the Bluegrass pattern is close to being the same, I guess). I find myself automatically falling into that one even if I start with a different pattern. It’s a challenge to train my strumming hand to stick with other rhythms now, alas. Fortunately this pattern does seem to work well with many songs.
OK that was really cool. After practicing the kitchen sink pattern a couple of times I was able, for the first time, to pick out the individual strings without having to concentrate and stare at the strings and the whole pattern came alive because I was finally able to make the strumming sound more natural. Fun!
Great Job Tony. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned sense i started your course. I enjoy the process of learning which is a new concept to me. Looking forward to what is next. Progress over perfection.
Great lesson Tony, it took my strumming from being a dabbler, to creating some new sounds. I found the alternating of the base note so cool, it sounded like I knew what I was doing.
Can’t wait to get these all in the repertoire
Awesome, another great lesson made simple
Progress over Perfection
This was a very fun and helpful set of lessons. Really enjoy the variety of sounds that the different strumming patterns produce.
Excellent Series Tony. Thanks
Thanks for this great series, Tony. It’s been super helpful for me!
Hi, Tony, thanks for this great lesson, which is very helpful for my playing.
Power chords!!! I tried them before, but I didn’t realize I have to mute them. This is a game-changer. Bring on the punk!
Very cool…thanks!
This lesson opened up many doors for my playing!
No ability to mark this as a “Favorite”
I just keep coming back. And it lets me go where I want.
These have now become fun. And getting better everyday. Small win. or maybe big.