Chords for Learn Guitar Strumming Patterns - Part 1: the Basics

[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Welcome [D] to a guitar friendly guitar lesson.
My name [Gm] is Brett.
Hello.
I'm from the [A] guitar friendly dot-net blog
[G] And if you haven't been over there, I encourage [A] you to check it out lots of helpful [C] info and tips on playing [D] guitar
But today we're gonna look [G] at the basics of guitar strumming [D] patterns
We're gonna look at [G] just a couple different [D] strumming patterns and how to play those
[G] _ You'll be able to use these strumming [D] patterns for lots of different ways
So [G] I'm with these patterns it will play lots of different [D] songs.
I'm excited to show them to you.
So with that being said, let's get started
All _ _ _ [N] right.
Let's learn our first strumming pattern.
Our first strumming pattern is going to consist of all down strums
_ And we're gonna line our strumming pattern to a count of one two, three four
So let's count off and play a G chord with all down strums
So one [G] two, three four one two
three four one two, three four
down down down down
One two three four _ _ now, I know that's simple but um as you feel more comfortable with that
try adding a
Chord switch.
So let's switch from a G chord to a D chord while we're strumming that _
one two, three four _
_ one two three four one two three four [D] one two three four _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] Again _ _ _ [E] _ _
I know it's slow.
Let's start off slow first.
You can't play fast unless you can play slow at first
[D] so work on being consistent and
Keeping good time. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] All right.
Let's take a look at our [D] next strumming pattern
For this next one.
We're gonna add [N] some up strums with our down strums.
So our new pattern is gonna be
_ down down up down down up
_ Let me play that for you one more time
_ down down up down down up
_ _ _ _ Let's play that over a G chord
Again, we're gonna count off like we did last time
one two three four [G] one two _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Three four
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ important _ _ thing to pay attention to and take note of and this might be a little tricky
But our up strums do not fall exactly on beats one two, three four of the measure
In fact, they fall a little bit after beats two and a little bit after beats four
This would be called the back beats of beats two and four listen again _
one two three four _ _
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I
_ _ _ Don't know if you heard that but
_ Our up strums do not fall exactly on the beats one two, three or four
They fall a little bit after beats two and four we can count this off by saying
_ one two and three four and one two and three four and one two
four and one two and three four and
_ _ _ [E] _ That's just a different way to count it again.
It's important that we're playing the strumming pattern in time
_ So practice it off.
It's very slow at first and then as you feel more comfortable try adding a chord change
So let's um change from a G to a D chord one two three [G] four _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] Again _ _ _
[Em] _ _ start off slow and work your way up
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