In this lesson, you're going to learn one of the top country strumming patterns of
all time and you'll be able to use this pattern in a variety of styles. It's a
lot of fun. Let's do this.
Hi I'm Tomas Michaud from Real Guitar Success where I help you learn guitar
and to love your guitar learning journey. Today, you're gonna learn a strumming
pattern that's very common to both country and folk style songs. It's a
basic pattern and to start off. I'm going to just show you the basic chords that
we'll be using. We'll start off with a G chord and I'm
fingering in the G with my pinky. It's gonna work best this way. You can try it
this way and it will work but you'll see what I mean in a minute. We'll put the
third finger here on the third fret sixth string. On the fifth string, I've
got my second finger on the second fret and then the pinky over here covering
that high E the first string on the third fret.
Then we're going from there to a C chord. In the C chord, I'm just going to move
these two fingers over one string. So I've got it on the fifth string now and
the fourth string third fret and 2nd fret also then the first finger comes
down on that second string first fret. So that's as far as we're gonna go with the
chords. Start strumming at the G chord. What you're gonna do is start hitting
the bass note. We're gonna do this in steps by the way. Step one is to just get
the chords. And you might wanna the practice just making the chords and
going back and forth so they're kind of easy at least as a warm-up. Now we're
gonna add bass notes. I'm gonna hit the bass note and then strum the chord. So base,
strum, base, strum. Do that that four times and then go to the C chord.
Base, strum, base, strum. Sometimes it takes a little while to get the hang of hitting right on the bass
note because you're not used to. You might hit any all string or missed.
But over time your hand just know where to go, practice.
Now step number four we're gonna add a base note. We're gonna add an alternate
bass note. So we're gonna start with the first one that's a G by the way. A few
bass note and we're going to the alternate which is around the fifth
string so listen - low base, alternate
and then try it on the C chord, same thing. Fifth string is the bass note that's the
C note and then open right next to it on the fourth string
and then the final step is to add that hammer on. What's a hammer on? You saying.
It's where I'm on this thing like that. Okay watch for a minute. I'm gonna hit
the low base node then I'm gonna hit the fifth string but I'm gonna take my
finger off and hammer back on. I've taken my third finger off just so you can see
it more easily but normally I keep my third finger there. So it sounds like
this a little faster.
That's a hammer mobile and on I only strike it once with my right hand. It's
sounding when I strike it open and then it makes another note when I hammer on
with my second finger. So that's the thing to practice for a while just get
this hammer so we can open two three and hammer off trying to get that note to
sound. If you do it too slow it's really hard.
You have to kinda
do it fast. no summer either
Now for the C chord, same thing. I'm hammering on the fourth string, open the
new hammer on, second finger second fret. So together it sounds like this
G.
Now you notice it sounds better faster.
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