Strumming Overview
Strumming Chords effortlessly is a dream for every person who picks up the Guitar. It does take a lot of hard work and practice for your strumming to sound as good as a professional guitarist. The most important thing to remember while strumming the guitar, is to never let you strumming hand stop doing the Down-Up strokes, even if you want to have a certain chord ring for a couple of beats. Its better to keep your hand moving Down-Up while not striking the strings. That way you can keep the beat which in turn will help you be in control of the rhythm.
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Dynamic Strumming
The most important aspect to strumming or guitar playing in general is the use of dynamics. By choosing to play certain notes/strums louder & certain softer than normal can create a very musical sounding rhythm. The use of dynamics & the ability to control the loudness & softness of your strum is what will make your guitar playing groove.
50 Strumming Exercises with Audio
Do check the exercises given below using the above mentioned concept. The chord progression used for all the 50 exercises are G-Cadd9-G-D.
Incase you dont know to play the chords click on the chord names (G - Cadd9 - D) to go to the respective chord shapes.
Each audio file has 3 different sections & will play the strumming pattern in the following order.
- Strumming WITHOUT Dynamics at Tempo 100
- Strumming WITH Dynamics at Tempo 100
- Strumming WITH Dynamics at Tempo 150
Note - There is a count-in click of 4 counts before the start of each piece to help you play along.
Incase you dont know to play the chords click on the chord names (G - Cadd9 - D) to go to the respective chord shapes.
Each audio file has 3 different sections & will play the strumming pattern in the following order.
- Strumming WITHOUT Dynamics at Tempo 100
- Strumming WITH Dynamics at Tempo 100
- Strumming WITH Dynamics at Tempo 150
Note - There is a count-in click of 4 counts before the start of each piece to help you play along.
Please buy TheGuitarThing Grade 1 to learn how to play all of the patterns below!
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Ex 1
Ex 4
Ex 7
Ex 10
Ex 13
Ex 16
Ex 19
Ex 22
Ex 25
Ex 28
Ex 31
Ex 34
Ex 37
Ex 40
Ex 43
Ex 46
Ex 49
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Ex 2
Ex 5
Ex 8
Ex 11
Ex 14
Ex 17
Ex 20
Ex 23
Ex 26
Ex 29
Ex 32
Ex 35
Ex 38
Ex 41
Ex 44
Ex 47
Ex 50
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Ex 3
Ex 6
Ex 9
Ex 12
Ex 15
Ex 18
Ex 21
Ex 24
Ex 27
Ex 30
Ex 33
Ex 36
Ex 39
Ex 42
Ex 45
Ex 48
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