scotty139 wrote:
Believe or not, strumming and stumming patterns have been my biggest problem in learning to play the guitar. Anyone got any hints that might help me, I've got NO rhythum.
scotty139:(
Hey Scott, welcome to the forum!! Go back thru this thread and read the posts that address this. Also, Neil has some good lessons on strumming if you feel up to joining the TARGET program. I can personally vouch for the program as my abilities with the guitar have skyrocketed since I joined 5 months ago! It is the best $20/month I've ever spent and you can get out anytime you want to.
The most important thing to learn with strumming is to keep good time. Start by doing a downstroke on each beat, one-two-three-four. Then do an upstroke in between the 1/4 notes and so one, one and two and three....and so on. Do them dead slow until you get the monotomous beat down. Then speed up as you get better.
Every guitarist needs to own and use a metronome. This gets discussed earlier in this thread. It's critical to good strumming.
Good luck and Happy Playin! :cheer: