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Summary: There are countless musical guitar rhythms and strumming techniques available for every musician. Learn how to do a busy strumming pattern to a beat in this free video clip on musical instruments.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example I'm going to show you a, a more kind of like a busy strum over a basic beat. So you know, like sometimes you hear a songs a, for example to go like this. So that's what I'm going to display for you right now, playing that strum over a basic beat so you can actually kind of play busy on the guitar strum wise and you know, playing over a basic beat so it'll sound like a, this with the drum track. And so what I'm doing there is you know, over just a one, two, three, four I'm actually playing a lot more strums in between, then going, and that kind of strum so it's down, down, up, down, up, down that kind of strum. So, and then adding on the A note and hammering on from the first fret to the second on the G within the chord. And you know basically what you're getting there is a busy strum played over a basic drum beat."
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