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Hello all you guitar players out there, i need your help! Ive been playin for about 8 months and im lovin it, startin to pick up on it pretty good but im havin 1 serious problem. When im playing chords i have trouble playing a fluid up down motion its not smooth at all or on beat and i cant seem to get myself straightened out, any advice? I really appreciate your help!
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*whoosh*
Practice.
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hey welcome to cgr!
i'm not expert, but i never had a problem with getting a feel for the strumming in a song and i THINK it is because before i picked up a guitar i played drums. your strumming hand should be making the same motion as if you were holding a drumstick and keeping beat on a high hat....lol that won't help at ALL if you've never touched a drumset before.
well my brother had the exact same problem, his strumming would be choppy and rigid and he would always ask me EXACTLY how many up and downstrokes i was doing so he could try to imitate it. so at first thats what i did but it never really helped him out. so then i told him to just mute all of the strings with his left hand and strum to whatever songs he hears on the radio. i also told him not to pay attention to the guitar but to listen to the drummer and just get the feel for it and now he can strum just fine. its something a lot of people have problems with but like nate said, just practice
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You're probably caught between thinking about how you're gonna position your fingers for the next chord and keeping the correct strum going...you gotta choose one to get comfortable with, fluid enough that you won't have to think about it...for chords, practice just going from one chord to another or from various chords to another, all without strumming...for the strumming, just practice keeping it consistent and nice-sounding...
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My advice would be to get a metronome and practice with a slow tempo. Dont move on until you've mastered the slow tempo, then increase it a couple of notches!
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One of the ways i learned how to strum was just to play along with other guitarists who were better than me, when i first started i knew like 4 chords so i like sucked and the youth leader who lead worship just drownded me out but it really helped improve my rythem.
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Practice Practice Practice, you will eventually get a feel for everything.
Also take everything one step at a time. Practice on this one chord until you can do it without thinking. Strum until the strum pattern becomes natural. blah blah blah...
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something I do when I'm learning to play a song is I strum one chord at a time. Like...say your progression is E A B A. I'll strum E once, sing whatever the lyrics are until I get to A. I'll strum A once, and so on. After you get used to singing the song and getting to know where the chord changes are, it becomes easier to fill in the strumming. You just have to go with what flows.
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Another thing to do to get wicked rythme is hold lets say a G chord or A minor...something simple. Then you start strumming up and down up and down then you get a little fancy lets say up up down ect, you'll get it! Good luck!
Jordan
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PERFECT makes perfect. Never- and I mean never- continuously practice all your mistakes. If you find yourself making a bunch of mistakes, slow down! Take a breath and start again. Be persistent
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Strumming is all in the wrist. I see alot of newbies that srtumm with there whole forearm. Don't do that! Its all in the wrist yeah, its all in the wrist. Your forearm should not move that much. If you are still havening truoble then just turn on the some praise accoustic stuff. and don't worry about chords. Just mute the strings and try to imitate the patterns. I hope that makes sense. If not, lol.
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Here's something that may (or may not) help you, depending on how much you understand rhythms.
Find the beat of the song; there are (usually) 4 in a measure, which the song is also (usually) set up into sets of 4 (8, 12, etc) for verses, choruses, etc..
Anyway, find the downbeats; they are the most obvious. For them, use a down strum.
These beats can also be divided in half, counted 'one and two and three and four and', there are 8 in a measure, 4 down beats (the numbers) and four upbeats (the 'ands'). These can be further divided time and time again, but don't worry about that for now.
Keep in mind that if you play upbeats, the strum will sound as if it is going twice as fast, although your hand will be going the same speed as if you are only strumming downbeats.
Pattern will look like this:
A metronome will probably help you immensely; some people simply have a better sense of rhythm than others (or outside experience... I was in band 6th-12th grade). Even still, experienced players can benefit from metrenomes.
After you get the up-down pattern comfortable, you can experiment- using mostly downbeats and giving an upstrum before chord changes
or, changing it all together; just remember that if you keep the up-down strums matched with the up and down beats, its hard to go wrong.
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hi,
if u need some additional info on rhythm and strumming to play most of today's Praise and Worship, u may wanna check under "rhythm and strumming" tab after going to the link below....there's some free videos on it
http://www.selftaughtguitarist.net/f...ons/index.html
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Originally Posted by Axmanjr My advice would be to get a metronome and practice with a slow tempo. Dont move on until you've mastered the slow tempo, then increase it a couple of notches!
What he said...
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