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Got it! I did not know the up stoke was only on the and note.
O-oh! It’s about to get creative. I like the rules.
helpful- golden rule
This is helping as it really just codifies how to strum correctly. Having been classical guitar trained with no picks or strumming. This is filling in those gaps as I think of them as essential tools to creativity.
got it
Having fun with this one
Understanding the strumming
Easy.
Getting better at reading notes
I like your tabs. Most tabs don’t have any of the rests and other notation to help you play the piece with the feeling that it was written with. Your tabs have the standard notation with it. Very helpful with playing and with learning how to read the music.
Very helpful
still loving it
I’m tracking
This sounds easy enough but doing it may be a different story.
This is cool and makes sense
Very informative
Love it.
Great
McLovin it!
Excellent, thank you.
Love this!
Watched these multiple times although simple. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.
Makes sense!
got it.
This is good basic starting lessons. Maybe could have been included in the “30 days to play.”
so far so good
Great lesson.
Pretty straight forward. Not lost yet.
This is exactly what I needed. Thank-you.
This great…a couple questions..I notice the up stroke only hits 3 of the notes…I don’t recall him mentioning why this is so…Also…I have problems with the strumming itself.. hitting all the strings…or as we see here only hit some of the strings…any lessons on this site about that? Thanks!
Learning and following this rule well will make strumming easier. Practice it both with the written sheet and Tonys video lesson. Great stuff!
For this lesson, the upstrokes are used for eight notes on the and. So if you are playing to a waltz time signature you have a total of six notes or strums per measure. They go as follows 1 and 2 and 3 and All of the numbers are down strokes. where the “ands” get the up strokes So in waltz time your correct you only have 3 ands. However, if you’re playing common time there are 8 notes or strums in an eight-note measure. Therefore, you will have four ands. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. which amount to 4 upstrokes. Hope this helps, good luck.
gotta get better counting my time, the hardest thing for me Ifeel like that’s really holding me back
You explained this very well. I understood it completely. Very pleased with this video.
I have been wondering about this . Good explanation
So….the down up beats are the ones with the bar between the notes?
I’d like to see some instruction on basic percussion.
strumming patterns are often so over looked. I was never taught strumming patterns or how to read them. i just learned to figure it out on my own at a young age. This lesson filled in a lot of holes
I find myself wishing that in every video you had a little note on which guitar you are using. I guess I should concentrate more on the lesson content but man I get distracted by the guitar choice 🙂
Very helpful for clarity regarding strumming. Finding this course useful as I have mastered enough chord shapes to “string” together for playing popular tunes.
Great lessons for understanding the time signatures. Will be spending some time on developing my strumming dexterity. Would using the metronome be a good tool to use with my strumming practice?