How to strum any pattern to any song, naturally and easily!
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Published 2024-07-28
Learn how to strum like a real musician.
This video explains how to develop a strong and natural rhythm in your strumming hand, so that you can emulate any rhythm you hear without having to remember "down-up-down-down-up" type patterns.
Download the accompanying chart here with the 10 examples used in the video:
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Link to the Smells Like Teen Spirit tutorial (fingerstyle):
• Smells Like Teen Spirit acoustic guit...
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00:00 introduction
00:36 feel the beat properly
01:42 the upstrum
05:04 ex.1 Stand by me
07:16 ex. 2 Gloria
09:09 ex. 3 Rock in the USA
10:36 ex. 4 Inaudible Melodies
13:14 ex. 5 Riptide
14:10 ex.6 Mr Jones
14:55 ex.7 Highway to Hell
15:23 ex.8 Flake
16:27 ex. 9 Another Brick in the Wall
17:13 ex.10 Smells like Teen Spirit
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All Comments (21)
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I have been playing guitar for over 15 years now - self taught and musically inclined. This video is great! The bit about releasing pressure so you don’t actually have to take your fingers off the strings is a game changer. All these years, how did I not know that?! Great lesson, thanks so much!
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I'm a 77 year old, wanna be rock star!😂and found your tutorial to be the best I've seen so far on YouTube. I'm useless with a plectrum and found your method to be the best yet. Thank you so much Matt, and all the best with your channel.👍
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This is the BEST strumming lesson I ever came across on YouTube. Thank you SO SO much for making and uploading this tutorial!!
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I found this video by accident and it really crystallised something going on in my head in that when I strum I really have no idea what I’m doing and unless I really know the song it can easily sound nothing like what it is supposed to sound like. I especially don’t know when to change cord within whatever strumming pattern I am playing. This video is inspiring and gives me an idea of what to address - so thanks and I will look up more of your videos.
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Thanks for not babbling on…and..on. Like So many Others instructional videos do. Your is very valuable and straight to the point Thank You!!
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Wow best strumming lesson I ever had ! Thank you!
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I wave my hand naturally, I think it's wrong. Now I see that it is correct, and I almost never had a problem with the rhythm. Super, Thanks!
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The best explanation I've ever heard ....and such a smooth way to explain it ...thx
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Really excellent strumming lesson. Also your note about the beat on the down strum makes a ton of sense and not many teachers mention that, or very often at least. You got a new subscriber!
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Been playing for many many years ( in my own space). I will never put down my original strumming style. Don't get me wrong, I have tried learning standard strumming patterns and never really got anywhere. At 2:16 of your video I instantly knew that this was the one . Thanks for taking your precious time, FREELY, to enlighten others. Your style of teaching suits my style of acquiring knowledge. Thanks again and keep rocking!!
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YouTube send your video to me. Boy, I have never watch a 20-minutes video entirely before this. You are a great and resourceful teacher and I really appreciate the sharing of your knowledge. ♥From Canada.
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I am a beginning/intermediate mandolin player, and this has been so helpful! Thanks very, very much.
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Hi . Thanks ever so much, 60yr intermediate here,im really enjoying your lesson.. you make it look so easy and exciting
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Lot's of honest and correct information. For it all to be true, it takes Lots of practice time. And for some people more time than others.
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Great explanation as to how the strumming pattern relates to 4th, 8th, 16th notes on or off the beat!👍👏❤
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Guitar Gold, thank you very much. Boy I gotta get to work on this, you sound amazing thank you
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I've played rhythm for a long time and appreciate you showing the counts on the staff along with your explanation. That's helpful. Thank you.
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Hi I'm 55 just started to learn acoustic guitar and got myself a piano/ keyboard never played or got any music knowledge just fancied trying it love your video tutorial 5*** rating from Marcus from England UK 🇬🇧
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Thank you very much!!! I've been playing guitar for years (I'm already 70) and I always struggle with the rhythm. You have a great ability to simplify and clarify certain concepts. I understand everything you explain and I understood it before watching your video but you explain it in a way that makes me internalize it better. Thank you so much!!! Any ideas on how to internalise the rhythm better?
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Been playing a strat (badly) for a while and just picked up a Yamaha semi-acoustic to practice and improve my strumming - thanks so much for creating and sharing this - great explanations, but also great references to songs we all know, each with different things to learn from. Thank you :-)
