Strumming fundamentally is a forearm motion
you want to move from you elbow, your elbow should be
on top of the guitar sat in close
at the inside of the elbow
on the top of the guitar holding it nice and close into your body
Making sure that it doesn't slip down your guitar like this at all
and you want to make sure you are keeping your wrist as close to the guitar
as possible while trying to holding it still, so if I do one strum with this motion
you can see there I just drag the pick
down each string
catching each string as equally as possible while keeping my wrist
and the rest of my hand still
I'm holding my pick
between my thumb and the side of my first finger
and I've got my hand as if I'm holding an icecream cone
just sat the pick just here
you can hold it if you keep dropping it and if
that gets too frustrating for you you can hold it between
2 fingers and your thumb like this
but I really recommend trying to persevere
and getting it with just the first finger but holding it in place
with the other three fingers
and tryna keep it nice and secure
you're holding your wrist still but try not to tense
any part of your body and shoulders and neck
when you are strumming
think about it like standing up straight
you want to not really
tense while you are doing it but you just have to stand straight to have that good posture
and strumming is no different
again i'm just using an E major chord as my example
and when we are strumming four down strums just the once
you can see the motion remains the same
for every strum
and thats the important thing, thats what we are trying to get
by going for this super simple strumming pattern
we're tryna get the correct hand motion
to be able to take you foward
and nail the tricky ones that are really gonna showcase your skills
this
strumming course is the foundation of rhythm guitar
so there is rhythm guitar which is
chords and strumming
which a singer could sing over
or someone would play lead guitar over
lead guitar, being a single note melody
or something else a little more delicate
it goes over rhythm guitar
so is the rhythm thats all important, if the rhythm
isnt even at this stage there is no foundation
to build upon, if your hand motion is uneven
and your sometimes hitting the thicker ones
and sometimes the thinner ones
and its not consistant or
not helping the even sound we are trying to achieve
then
everything will fall apart going foward for the more trickier ones
even tempo and catching all the strings evenly
is the best thing
I recommend Jim Dunlop picks
a .73
or thinner
to make sure
your pick is working in your favour
to be able to catch the things
as even as possible
but its the hand motion and swinging from the elbow
in this sort of fashion and keeping this hand close
so not doing this
is whats gonna really help you
if you are strumming with your wrist out like this
then your natural tendency is to do this and that isn't what we want to do
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