Chords for Guitar Lessons - My Top 3 Guitar Strums!

_ _ _ _ Now I think it's fair to say that strumming is probably the number one reason why beginners can't play
Guitar songs or have a lot of difficulty playing their first guitar songs
_ What I'm going to show you here are the three most powerful strumming patterns that you can learn
To get [Gm] going playing hundreds of popular [Ebm] songs on guitar
[G] _ _ During all of this I'm going to be [Ab] muting my strings
Which means I place all four fingers across the strings, but I don't apply any pressure.
I just [C] touch _
And that gives me a [G] percussive sound which allows me to concentrate on learning [Ab] the strum pattern without worrying about chord shapes _
So here's the first universal strum pattern.
We're going to call it strum number one.
It's going down down up
Up down up.
I do that once more
_ down down up up down up
Now once you get that _
_ _ _ Pattern it's very important to try and [G] cycle it around and around
[Bb] _ So slowly it would go down down up up down up down
[Gb] Down up up down up down
Down up up down up
Once you get at a slow tempo you can try and speed it up
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] that's a universal strumming pattern because you can apply it to hundreds and probably even thousands of songs on guitar
If I just play say a C and a G over here with chords we can [G] see how it sounds
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_ _ _ next universal strumming pattern we're going to call strum number two and a slightly longer
So for this pattern we're going to go down _
Down down up up down down _
[Bb] down
_ [Gb] down up up down down
_ _ down
down up up down down
_ So again the same thing applies _
Try and speed it up once you get it at a slow tempo _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] And if you really want to be cool with the strum put a little down up at the end [G] of it as well
So that would be down
_ Down down up up [G] down down [N] down up down
down down up [Gb] up down down down _ _ up down
down up up [Eb] down
Okay, so let's [G] put the same chords to that strum _ _ _ _
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There's a massive amount of songs that you can play using strum number two
You can transpose them across different tempos different styles different songs different artists everything
They're universal strums because they're so widely used across an enormous range of different songs
Now the final universal strumming I'm going to show you now is a strum number three and it's the shortest of our strums
It simply goes down
_ [G] Down down up and that's it _ down _
_ _ Now when you [Ab] cycle it around you might find it a little bit tricky at first
_ Let's [Gb] try it down
_ down down up down _
down down up [Abm] down
_ down down up down _ _ _ _ _
so putting our same [G] chords to strum number three would [G] be
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_ Again, [Em] enormous amount of songs [Ab] that you can play using strum number three _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Now i've [G] kind of gone quickly through these strum patterns because I don't have a whole lot of time on these
introductory home page videos but inside
The guitar [G] course I go into them in in much greater detail and we do lots of drilling and exercises to perfect them
But basically now you have the second part of the equation
[Ab] So on one side we have our chords contained within the context of keys and also the use of our guitar capo
And on the other side we have the three most powerful
Essential and important [F] guitar strums that you need to know in order to start to play hundreds [Gb] of songs on guitar straight away
Now in the next section we'll go into practicing so that you can see how we go about perfecting it and putting it all together
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