How to Strum a Guitar Faster

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Part of the video series: Guitar Lessons

Summary: In order to strum a guitar faster, it's important to work on improving the upstroke and getting the forearm and wrist to flow together. Find out how to do exercises to improve the upstroke with help from an electric guitar instructor in this free video on strumming guitars faster.

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By Chris Dupre
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Contact: www.guitarcoach.biz

Chris Dupre has been a guitarist for 18 years and a teacher for five years. He has performed in numerous clubs in upstate New York.read more

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"Hi my name is Chris Dupre, and I'm an electric guitar instructor. In this segment we are going to be talking about strumming the guitar faster. A couple of ways you can improve that is to work on your upstroke. Typically people think that when you are playing guitar the natural instinct is to play with down strokes. And short strumming can be done like that, but to improve the speed of the strumming you want to be as strong on your upstroke. Now the techniques to work on that is just simply playing holding a chord and going down and up, down and up. Now to work on getting it faster you want to get your forearm and your wrist to kind of flow together. With you forearm balancing on the body of the guitar. And notice a lot of that was me working the upstroke and accenting with that. That is a good exercise to get the upstroke going a little better, and in turn overall improving the speed of the strum pattern. That is just a little about improving the speed of your strumming."