Guitar Strumming Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Chris Dupre and I'm an electric guitar instructor and in this segment we are going to be talking about guitar strumming. What I'm going to show you is just a standard guitar strum pattern that involves six strokes. I will use a G chord for that, six strokes of course it is kind of broken up into two groups of three, down, down, up bring your hand back down without touching the strings and then up, down, up. Now in succession it would all come out like this. What you want to do is tie all that together repeatedly over and over again. Now when you are changing from chord to chord you are going to use that sixth or last stroke in the whole progression there to change, help you transist to another chord and what I mean by that is that you are going to sacrifice that last stroke into doing nothing while your fingers move. So I'm going to go from a G chord to a C chord. I'll take it slow. You will notice how on that sixth stroke I kind of pick my hand up. Now there it was kind of obvious but the better you get at that you can kind of make it a little more subtle where it is pretty much unnoticeable so I'll do it a little quick a little more subtly. So it is that way that last stroke in the strum pattern that allows you to transist from chord to chord kind of unnoticeably and that is just one example of a guitar strum pattern."