How To Sound Better Strumming Guitar – Forget Patterns!
In this video, I am going to show you how to sound better strumming guitar. Strumming patterns are not the answer. If you want to sound good strumming guitar, don’t focus on patterns, rather focus on the sound you are getting instead.
In this lesson, I show you 3 ways you can achieve a better guitar strumming sound.
– Guitar Strumming Approach 1: Dynamics
When strumming guitar, you do not strum all the strings, all the time. This makes for a very bland and flat strumming sound with absolutely no dynamic to it. You must accent certain parts of the beat by targeting different strings when strumming.
– Guitar Strumming Approach 2: Palm Muting
You will learn how to use palm muting to create nice dynamics with your strumming. Like targeting strings, this allows certain beats to be accented, bringing much shape to your strumming.
– Guitar Strumming Approach 3: Percussive Strums
You will also learn how to bring a groove to your strumming with the percussive strumming technique. This is achieved with percussive hits on beats 2 and 4 of each bar as you strum.
In this video, I show you how to do all this.
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Originally posted by UCpfdbEf7VXcflp-sHYdDyeQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwGNhrjygA
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Just picked up Granny bunch of great tips. I didn’t see this on any of the other little workouts that I gone over in the past. Thanks a lot new subscriber.
Hey man, thanks so much for creating and sharing this movie. As a keyboard player (now playing a strat (badly) for a year or so) I just bought a Yamaha semi-acoustic, and realised II need more skill in the basic strumming area – this was super helpful, … I didn't even have my hand position correct for palm muting, lol. Very helpful, thank you 🙂
Good lesson but less is best when talking, don’t think you stopped talking through the whole video
You’ve shared your experience and I admire you for that. Just made a lot of players happy ????????????
Great video!
Great video and examples!
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Play guitar like a drummer.
Great advice.
"Focus on the sound…"
Thanks a bunch.
God bless you.
Please make a video if possible on singing while playing guitar, specifically separating the rhythm of the guitar part from the singing because that really trips me up.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I HATE strumming patterns and never in my life want to play DDU UDU again. Just within 10 minutes of watching your video, I apply the techniques and finally feel like my strumming is singing!!
This is excellent lesson.
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This is the lesson I have been looking for since I started playing. My strumming didn't sound the way I wanted it to, but I couldn't figure out why. Learning new strumming patterns didn't help — it was the same playing but with different patterns. It was everything you go over here. Thanks for the lesson.
Thank you so much for this video!!! I couldn’t stand to hear myself playing my guitar and sounding like a robot strumming!!! I was about to give up..???? But you saved a guitar player with this video, thank you so much!????????☺️
I love it
This is a great lesson for a beginner to get a look forward to how he’s going to get to that place he wants to be down the road. A map; a confidence builder. Of course, nobody could do all this 10 minutes after watching this lesson, but I think it would calm a lot a beginners down to see this and understand the pathway that lies in front of them.
Best explanation of the percussive slap I've seen on Youtube. Excellent!
Great explanation and example of using a percussive hit. Great lesson! Thanks!
That thumb nail is distracting
Great lesson, thank you!
You’re a great teacher and these are great lessons! Thank you
Thank you so much sir. Learned alot ❤????
thank you for the video! extremely helpful!
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