I remember Helen, my first guitar teacher in high school. Sitting in her wood-paneled living room and playing some no-name classical guitar, she showed me this strumming pattern:
And I was hooked. I took to doing it on the bus, in math class, anywhere I could practice it. This was my introduction to the guitar.
Now as a bluegrass player, I don’t strum so much when I am concentrating on learning some 'hot leads.' My mantra of late has been let’s pick.
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Strumming is basically when you fret a chord and you play all the strings of the guitar (or at least the ones that are in the chord) with a rhythmic pattern (like the one illustrated above). And there is a whole world in rhythm playing. Del McCoury, one of the legendary rhythm guitar players, knows a thing or two about the practice.
I learned a lot from Bill Monroe. When we did play on a microphone he’d say, Get in there and crowd me because he needed that rhythm up there with him. So I learned to play hard rhythm. And about the only guitars that would hold up to that hard rhythm and not lose their tone were Martins, said McCoury in a 2018 interview in
Magazine. I played behind a fiddle a lot at square dances in the early years, where you had to play all night long. When you’re playing that much rhythm guitar you've got to learn how to use your wrist in the right way, and you'll do that if you play long enough. Because if you use your arm too much you can't last on a square dance. I learned that from Bill Monroe, too. He was the same way on that mandolin: It was all in his wrist; it was all right there.
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What Del is talking about is similar to what I teach my students: Power Through Relaxation. If you stiffen up your wrist too much and rely on your arm to do all the strumming, you’re going to get tired very quickly. The key here is to hold your pick as lightly as possible without dropping it. It's the players who squeeze the pick between their thumb and first finger as hard as they can who drop out first in the longer jam sessions.
And now we come to picking, which is a technique of playing individual notes (with your fingers or a guitar pick) instead of the whole chord. I started this journey by doing my best to copy R.E.M.'s guitarist Peter Buck. He would often break a basic chord into the separate notes rather than strumming them all at once. Known as arpeggios, they got their name from the Italian word for harp becausepicking individual notes is what harpists spend most of their time doing.
From the folksy balladeer's gentle fingerpicking to the aggressive pick sweeps of a metal shredder, picking is a style that takes many forms. Martin Guitar artist Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids typically has a delicate style but is not afraid to push it in a grittier country direction like he does in their song Younger Years off of 2017's
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Now if you really want to up your picking game, some say practicing your scales is a key part of that study. Essentially, scales are a series of notes played in ascending and then descending order. The word scale originally meant a ladder so it makes sense to think of playing scales as climbing a musical ladder (of usually eight notes in a row) that starts and ends on the same note. From building up your finger strength to developing your ear, scales have a lot to offer.
Magazine, Neil Young noted “First off, nobody cares if you know how to play scales. It's whether you have feelings that you want to express with music, that's what counts, really. When you are able to express yourself and feel good, then you know why you're playing. The technical aspect is absolute hogwash as far as I'm concerned. It bores me to tears.”
In the end, the guitar is an instrument for expressing your musical thoughts, whatever form they may come. The important thing here is to remember to listen to what the song is telling you. Does it want to be played fast or slow? Aggressively strummed (you should see the wear on my 1969 Martin D-28) or intricately picked? The true joy of guitar playing often lies in letting the song tell it’s own story.
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Clifford Hall is a journalist, regularly contributing to magazines like Martin Guitar Journal of Acoustic Guitars, Guitar World, and the Fretboard Journal. A bluegrass and folk musician as well, Hall has a love of vintage Martins and has learned how the history of both Martin guitars and American music intertwine. Hall currently resides near Philadelphia, where he also works as an elementary violin teacher at the Owen J. Roberts School District in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.But don’t worry! With the right technique and some focused practice, strumming a guitar will become as easy and effortless as riding a bike.
Next, I’ll show you a step-by-step plan to learn a new strumming pattern, that helps you tap into your innate sense of rhythm. After all, is all about developing your musicality!
We’ll then explore 7 popular strum patterns, from easy to more advanced, all with song examples, so you can hear what they sound like in ‘real music’.
Strum Patterns Chart — Musical Mama
Keep your strumming hand moving at all times, even when you’re not hitting any strings for a couple of beats. By doing this, you don’t have to think about when you need to move your strumming hand: it’s moving all the time. Constantly moving your hand also makes it much easier to keep time. We’ll take a closer look at how this works later in this guide.
Most of the movement will come from rotating your lower arm (you could also say: twisting your wrist) and letting your hand and wrist hang loose and follow that motion. (Funk guitarist Ross Bolton calls this a ‘drunken wrist’. I like that.)
You might be tempted to make the up and down movement with your lower part of your arm (your forearm), but though your lower arm will be moving up and down a little bit as well, that’s only a small part of the movement.
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It’s totally normal to want to hold on to the pick tightly, because you don’t want it to move and you don’t want to drop it. But by gripping it too tight, you make it hard for the pick to move past the strings smoothly and it might get caught up in there somewhere. Also: it’s really hard to keep your wrist nice and loose when your gripping your pick tightly. By holding your pick with a light grip, you allow it to glide over the strings easily.
If you’re not used to playing with a pick, it can really help to practice with a thin pick that’s nice and bendy. As you progress, try thicker picks too though, as they’ll give you a bit more control over your sound.
You might think we need to hit all the notes in a chord with every strum, but very often we hit just three or four strings.
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So which strings should you be hitting? A good rule of thumb is to hit either all of the strings or just the lower (thicker) strings on every downstrum. Then on the upstrum, hit only the highest (thinnest) three or four strings. This approach will make the downstrums sound a bit heaver and give your upstrums a bit of a lighter sound. And: it’ll be a little easier to play!
When you hear a great song, you’ll often start tapping your foot or nodding your head to the music without even realising it.
The rhythm is just so catchy or compelling that you can’t help but feel it throughout your body. This is your innate sense of rhythm kicking in.
Piano Strum Method Chart
When you’re strumming, you want to tap into that innate sense of rhythm as well. That’s what will make strumming feel easy and natural.
Experienced musicians do this automatically. It’s why they’ll say things like ‘just play what you feel’ or ‘I never think about strumming, I just do it’. Of course, once upon a time, strumming was hard for them too! It’s just too long ago for them to remember.
Strumming is a lot like riding a bike in that way. It takes a bunch of practice at first, but once things click, it feels like the easiest thing in the world.
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So, how exactly do you go about using your natural sense of rhythm to strum a guitar? Let’s take a look at how you should learn a strum pattern, step by step!
Before we get going, check out this quick video from my course Strumming Skills Bootcamp which has a quick explanation of how rhythm works. (Naturally, the course is included in your membership if you're a All Access Member!)
As you can see, we need to strum on each beat. So, how exactly would
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