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Summary: Get started playing up and down strokes on the guitar: learn how to strum the guitar strings on a six string guitar in this free guitar playing video for beginners.
Bonnie Barnard is an award winning singer/songwriter/musician who won Musician Magazine’s Best Unsigned Artist Award for her song “Dead Town” and also had one of her songs in film...read more
"Hi, my name is Bonnie Barnard. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to teach you how to strum a guitar. The way that I learned and the easiest way to strum a guitar is just to strum it, just do up strokes and down strokes. What are those? This is a down stroke and this is an up stroke down stroke up stroke down stroke up stroke just practice that over and over again don't try to do anything hard or difficult just do the down stroke and then the up stroke over and over again. Even if for an hour or two doing it all of sudden it will come to you and you won't be just strumming up and down you'll start to strum. If you never strum before simply do the down stroke and do the up stroke down stroke up stroke."
eHow Article: How to Strum Guitars
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koolkatkiwi said
on 2/15/2009 This video is an insult to anyone's intelligence.