Tony, I've been playing for over 50 years, and what you say makes more sense than most of what I see on the Net. I did not have the option of formal music training growing up. I had to figure it out by myself. It's nice to hear some of what I've discovered posed so concisely.
That "breaking the golden rule" pattern is like second nature for me after playing thrash metal for so many years. It's definitely good to keep it in mind as an alternative & to add dynamics to a song.
After wasting time this morning watching trashy videos I noticed the notifications lit up for this. That nice little Martin inspired me to get out my nice little Guild and now I'm pickin' and strummin' and that is a good thing. Thanks
I've been watching your videos for a while, the most important thing for me is the way you explain the process. I like to play rhythm guitar, after watching all your videos I hope I can play in the party, pub, etc. Lol. Thanks for the lesson.
Bro....I’ve been playing for a while now and taught myself to strum. THAT took forever!!! And even still, sometimes I’m not too happy with some of my strum patterns. But had I of just watched THIS video right here 😣 You make so much friggn sense!!!! Thank you :)
Thanks so much, Tony. I take weekly lessons but I use your lessons to supplement the lessons I get from my instructor. It keeps me busy, and I really enjoy it. Awesome videos.
Starting playing the uke about a year ago, been struggling with strumming patterns since I favor melodic playing, this was really helpful for the uke as well, thanks!
I had friend growing up his nickname was cornbread he was the only kid in the neighborhood who could really play guitar and brother you remind me of him ,it is compliment thank you.
Awesome!!! Best video instruction I've come across. Can't wait to try the patterns out. I have a hard time using a pick but looks great for finger strumming as well. Thank you.
I normally don't look at it with structure, because I can hear the pattern. But, I promised myself to do it by "The Book" this time. So the way you did it, fit perfectly, into what I've always done but added more structure. If that made sense. Just Thanks 👍
Good Stuff! Although, for the last example (using the "golden rule" to create your own pattern) you should have left a space for the unstrummed off-beats. Strumming them as you did, with no space, gives you a bar of straight 8th-notes in a 6/8 bar with weird picking directions. To clarify it should have been: 1-and-2-(space)-3-(space)-4-and
Thank you for making this tutorial lesson! I really enjoyed it! the last pattern and advice was most appealing to me and as I tried and applied felt as if I was discovering new flavours in my skill.
Thank you! This is really helpful, I’ve been trying to write a song kind of inspired off of Elliot smith’s “clementine”, (if you’ve heard it, you know what I mean by obscure chord changes and strumming). I wanted to find the right strumming pattern to make it unique, and bam! Here we are. So anywho, thanks :)
Lemme see if I got this. So its boom-chick, boom-chicka, boom-chicka-chicka, boom-chick-chicka, and my favorite boom-boom-boom-boom!!! I love this video!
Such a great and useful video. Was paying so close attention to what you were saying, that I didn't realize until the end that we're playing identical guitars!
Thank you so much for this! Boom-chick-a! You speak my language. Lol! Sometimes numbers go over my head, but thanks to being in music school I now also understand how to count rhythm. This lesson is going to help me tremendously in my playing. I loved the palm mute technique. I never did it correctly and now I know why.
Hi Tony, thanks and nice lesson. May I suggest that for more value you could include after each strum pattern, a "use it in a sentence" type of example- play a bit of a sample song that the strum pattern fits well. Thanks for all that you do!
Thank you, thank you once again, see I compose song everyday it relaxes me, and REALLY I don't know shiit about guitar rhythms or patterns. I yes I'll tell you if it works, by knowing differential in how my song will sound in your teaching style patterns. When am done I'll right.
I enjoyed your teaching,,it would be great,,if you teach the strumming pattern slowly like you do,,, Then show US the Fast way to strum it,,,thanks for your time,,,,,
