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Basic Strumming :)

Before we begin, make sure your guitar is in tune, and you have a guitar pick handy. Using your fretting hand, form a G major chord on the neck. Making sure you are holding your pick properly, and have a look at the strum above. 

This pattern is four beats long, and contains 8 strums. It might look confusing, but just pay attention to the arrows at the bottom of the graphic. An arrow pointing down indicates that you should strum downwards on the guitar. Similarly, an upwards arrow indicates that you should strum upwards. Notice that the pattern starts with a downstroke, and ends with an upstroke. So, if you were to play the pattern twice in a row, your hand wouldn’t have to vary from it’s continual down-up motion.

Now, try playing the pattern, taking special care to “keeping the rhythm”. You should be aiming for trying to keep the time between strums exactly the same. When you get done playing the example once, loop it, without any sort of pause.

 

Alternate between strumming down, and strumming up. When you get done playing the example once, loop it, making sure there is no hesitation between the end of the old pattern and the beginning of the new one. Count out loud “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and..” Notice that on the “and”, aka the “offbeat”, you are always using an upwards strum. Keep this in mind as we progress. Try listening to, and playing along with, an audio file of the strumming pattern.Here are a few things to keep in mind as you play the above pattern:

• If you are playing an acoustic guitar, make sure to strum directly over the sound hole
• On electric guitar, strum over the body (different locations will give you different sounds), not over the neck
• Make sure all strings are ringing clearly
• Make sure the volume of your downstrums and upstrums are equal
• Be careful not to strum too hard, as this often causes strings to rattle, and produces an undesirable sound
• Be careful not to strum too softly, as this will produce a “wimpy” sound.
• Listen again to the audio example to hear how your strumming should sound. Your pick should be striking the strings with a relatively firm, even stroke
• Think of your elbow as being the top of a pendulum; your arm should swing up and down from it in a steady motion, never pausing at any time.
• Rotate your wrist down slightly while strumming down. Rotate your wrist up slightly while strumming up. Be sure not to keep your wrist stiff when strumming.

How to Read Guitar Tablature

The following tutorial will help to explain to you the basic concept of reading guitar tab. Although it may seem complex, learning to read tab is quite simple, and you should find yourself reading tab easily in no time.

Guitarists are a unique breed. Chances are, if you play guitar, you are either self-taught, or have taken a small number of lessons via a friend or guitar teacher. If you were a pianist, you would have learned the instrument through years of private study, which would include both music theory lessons, and heavy focus on “sight reading”.

There is nothing wrong with taking a more informal approach to learning music, but one of the basic skills that gets invariably ignored is learning to read music. Learning to sight read takes a reasonable amount of work, without immediate benefit, and it is these sort of skills that self-taught musicians tend to avoid.

If you want to get serious about a career in the music industry, learning to read music really is essential. For the casual guitarist, however, there is a guitar-centric method of music notation called guitar tablature, which while flawed, provides a simple and easy to read way of sharing music with other guitarists. Read on to learn more about how to decipher guitar tablature.

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