Simple strumming patterns improve your playing for guitar and ukulele!

simple strumming patternsSimple strumming patterns will improve your playing! Using strumming patterns can be super handy for perfecting your guitar or ukulele accompaniment. Eventually you will figure out your own patterns for any song that you do, but in the meantime try these as a place to start. Just choose a chord you can play easily and strum down or up where indicated. Count out loud to help yourself with your timing.  Click here to download the PDF

One interesting exercise is to choose a lyric line for a song you know well- for instance, from the Eagles’ Hotel California: “On a dark desert highway”. Now see if you can strum that “syllabically” meaning, use either an up or a down strum per each syllable. Something like this below, which you can download a pdf for here.

simple strumming patterns will improve your playing

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Paul Elwood
Paul ElwoodPaul Elwood Guitar Coach
I love being a guitar teacher. There is something profoundly cool about helping a guitarist find their way on the path we share! Working with beginners- especially adult beginners- is both humbling and fulfilling. I truly enjoy working with people who are either looking to take up this wonderful instrument or improve their playing. My online students get a combination of real-time coaching, personal video lessons and an in-depth assessment from Fathom, the lesson assistant I use. In-person students get the advantage of one-to-one focused attention, of course. We start out with a goal -usually a song you want to learn- and then figure how how to take it where you want to. I am here to help!

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