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re: Official: Guitar beginners question and answer thread.
Posted on 3/29/20 at 4:36 pm to composerdave
Posted on 3/29/20 at 4:36 pm to composerdave
I feel like I have been trying to man things that are beyond my skill lately. Practicing too much songs and not enough basics so today, I did just that.
Mostly strumming practice for me today and it was very helpful. I think one of my things I was doing wrong was trying to hit all or most of the string on the upstrums. Today I practiced basic strumming and trying to stay in rhythm. I used my phone to set a pace and just stayed with it.
4 down strum per bar
8 down strums per bar
8 down strums and 8 upstrums per bar
Then I pulled some patterns from my notebook that my teacher had written down.
D, DU, U,D
D, DU, U,DU
And so on. I first did them just with the string muted. Then I tried it playing a chord. Then I played each pattern for 2 bars then changed chords for two bars doing the same patterns.
I need to be doing more of this. I am way more comfortable with strumming even after this simple excersise for an hour or so. Im still not completely comfy with how hard/strong to use the pick but its coming. Its not exactly smooth. LOL
Mostly strumming practice for me today and it was very helpful. I think one of my things I was doing wrong was trying to hit all or most of the string on the upstrums. Today I practiced basic strumming and trying to stay in rhythm. I used my phone to set a pace and just stayed with it.
4 down strum per bar
8 down strums per bar
8 down strums and 8 upstrums per bar
Then I pulled some patterns from my notebook that my teacher had written down.
D, DU, U,D
D, DU, U,DU
And so on. I first did them just with the string muted. Then I tried it playing a chord. Then I played each pattern for 2 bars then changed chords for two bars doing the same patterns.
I need to be doing more of this. I am way more comfortable with strumming even after this simple excersise for an hour or so. Im still not completely comfy with how hard/strong to use the pick but its coming. Its not exactly smooth. LOL
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Posted on 3/29/20 at 4:50 pm to LanierSpots
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Im still not completely comfy with how hard/strong to use the pick but its coming. Its not exactly smooth.
Just find a way to get comfortable with what you need to do, and to get the sound that you want. Your teacher expects you to do it your way, he's just not going to say it. He is there for a little bit of discipline, and to guide you a bit.
Posted on 3/29/20 at 5:55 pm to LanierSpots
quote:
I feel like I have been trying to man things that are beyond my skill lately. Practicing too much songs and not enough basics so today, I did just that.
Mostly strumming practice for me today and it was very helpful. I think one of my things I was doing wrong was trying to hit all or most of the string on the upstrums. Today I practiced basic strumming and trying to stay in rhythm. I used my phone to set a pace and just stayed with it.
4 down strum per bar
8 down strums per bar
8 down strums and 8 upstrums per bar
Then I pulled some patterns from my notebook that my teacher had written down.
D, DU, U,D
D, DU, U,DU
And so on. I first did them just with the string muted. Then I tried it playing a chord. Then I played each pattern for 2 bars then changed chords for two bars doing the same patterns.
I need to be doing more of this. I am way more comfortable with strumming even after this simple excersise for an hour or so. Im still not completely comfy with how hard/strong to use the pick but its coming. Its not exactly smooth. LOL
Sounds exactly like me lately. This weekend I went back to my one minute chord change exercises and strumming practice. Progress was made. Frustrations killed. Good stuff.
This post was edited on 3/29/20 at 7:16 pm
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