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re: Official: Guitar beginners question and answer thread.
Posted on 3/29/20 at 5:55 pm to LanierSpots
Posted on 3/29/20 at 5:55 pm to LanierSpots
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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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