I just recently got another acoustic guitar and this lesson to will add a lot to my new instrument. I was familiar with 3 of your techniques. Thanks Heath.
Thanks for sharing how to strum without a pick using fingers to play down up strokes with varying dynamics to sound better in your guitar rhythms playing techniques.
I've been doing the "invisible pick" for decades. I don't remember how I started doing it. I was young. Many times I found myself without a pick nearby so I developed that method. Sometimes I intentionally don't use a pick if I am going to do a complicated or fast strum or alternate finger picking and strumming in a song. I don't like to hybrid pick. My hand is less restricted without having to hold a pick. I usually use two or three fingers for the down strum. The attack sounds better with a pick though.
I found this VERY informative. I play a classical guitar, folk music and ballad type songs. My strumming is your 5th beginner sample and it's starting to sound very much same old/same old. I will definitely save this video for future practice. Thanks.
Great video. As for your Boom-Chuck, you explain the thumb pattern well (bass-chord-bass-chord), but where do the upstrokes with the index finger typically fall in? Thanks!
Well the upstrokes can come at the same time as the thumb or inbetween. Check out my lesson on Thumb Independence to help with this. Thanks for wathcing!
Thanks! I've been practicing to your Thumb Independence video. In A, it covers the thumb string pattern 5-4-6-4. This seems right for C too, thumb strings 5-4-6-4, with a low G in the bass. For D, it's a string up at 4-3-5-3. E must be 6-4-5-4, as is G. That's pretty close, right? Your Thumb Independence video did help overnight as you stated. That's muscle memory for ya. I tend to think of the bass downbeats in A, C, and D as going "high-low". Downbeats in E and G go "low-high".
