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If your strumming feels awkward, watch what your arm does between the strums. Keeping it moving can make a huge difference to your rhythm, even when you’re not hitting the strings.
In this lesson, I’ll show you a common misunderstanding about down strums and up strums, using Old Faithful so you can hear and see the difference. We’ll look at keeping time with your foot, adding variations to a pattern and carrying the same idea into sixteenth-note strumming.
There are exceptions, of course! But if you’re struggling to settle into a groove, this is one of the first things I’d check. Grab your guitar and try it with me. Does keeping your arm moving change how the pattern feels?
📖 CHAPTERS
00:00 The most common strumming problem
00:31 Arm movement vs. alternating strums
00:59 Old Faithful: hear the difference
02:12 Keep your arm and foot in time
02:43 Keep moving between strums
04:02 Add variations to a strumming pattern
04:36 Practice patterns and understand the exceptions
05:47 Eighth-note and sixteenth-note strumming
06:19 How all-down strumming changes the feel
07:04 More strums, accents and a steady hand
07:42 What to check if strumming still feels awkward
08:39 Take it further with Strumming SOS
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