Chords for Guitar Tips Finger Strumming

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_ [F] _ [Em] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ [Em] _ [A] _ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _
[B] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] Here's a quick tip today on beginning strumming.
The way I like to teach people to strum from day [Ab] one, using the fingers of their right [G] hand.
So we're going to look at how to do some strumming patterns, [C] not really patterns, but just the
[E] technique involved on using your right hand fingers for [G] strumming. _
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_ _ Strumming techniques with the fingers.
This is the first thing I like to have people learn as far as strumming goes.
It's learning to go down, I'm playing a G chord, but learning to go down across the
strings with your middle fingers.
So put these two fingers together _ and brush down across the strings with them.
And that motion is a combination of a couple things.
You're strumming down, you're moving your arm a little bit, your wrist a little bit,
and you're opening your fingers as you go.
It's not this. _
I'm only moving my arm, no wrist.
_ It's not this, only wrist.
_ _ _ It's not this, _ _ only fingers.
It's a combination, arm, _ wrist, and fingers. _
_ _ _ So when those go finger strum down across the strings, [E] it's this whole series released
kind of from [G] the elbow. _
_ _ And I'm sort of unrolling my hand as I go.
So that's the technique for a downstroke in the finger strum.
The technique for an up is use your index finger and you brush it up across the strings.
It's almost straight.
It's relaxed.
_ You don't drag it straight hard like that.
Well, anyway, hard to explain.
But _ it's a light brush coming up across.
Usually just aim for the top two or three strings.
On a down, you try to hit all the strings you can.
I'm strumming all six strings on this G chord.
On an up though, I want to get just the higher ones, the first, second, and third strings.
So the technique is down with the middles, up with the first. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So just practice that _ and then add changing chords to it.
I'll go to [C] C to _ _ D. _
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[A] Then a strumming pattern is created by leaving out some of those strokes.
So one of the most [E] important things about strumming again is that your hand moves down
and up [G] constantly.
We address [A] this in a lot of other _ tips too.
_ So this down-up motion never stops.
So now we're going to create a pattern in 4-4 time that would [G] go down, down, up, down,
up, down, [Dbm] up.
That would be the [Ab] first pattern I'd like people to learn in 4-4 [G] time.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
[E] If we're playing that in 3-4 time, I'll go to an E minor chord.
3-4 time would be [Em] down, down, up, down, up.
One, two, and three, and.
One, two, and three, and. _ _ _
[E] So learn to strum with your fingers and work on it in those simple patterns,
the 4-4 [G] pattern and the 3-4 pattern.
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