Hi guys my name is Andy Crowley and welcome to this strumming guitar course
Now I've been a guitar teacher for many years now and the number one question
or the number one topic that people tend to ask for help with
has to be strumming, close second to the chords, but strumming; there's something
about it that can be and very tough to deal with whether you're a beginner
who's just starting out and trying to do any strumming patterns properly up to
people who have been playing a long time and they still haven't quite mastered
the art of being able to learn a new song and pick up the stream pattern as
quickly as they'd like.
A couple of years ago I uploaded a free beginners course full of real songs
taking the absolute beginner along to learn in the f bar chord and having a
good repertoire of various songs are quite complex songs under their belt
What I've done in this drumming series I've taken all the strumming patterns
from that beginners course and I've put them in order and they're all written on
this sheet which will be freely downloadable even from the website down
below
along with the materials you've purchased along with this DVD package or
downloadable package however you choose to do it
This series is unlike any streaming course that I've ever seen.
Every strumming course I have come across before has been simply add a series of numbered and
ordered strumming patterns but almost none of those strong in patterns lead on
from one and over they all seem to be kind of random and they don't really
explain how you supposed to use those strumming patterns in real songs or why
would you use one storm in pattern or another?
the idea of this term in course is we're going to cover all of those things but
also train you instinctively to know what strumming pattern to go far
just by listening to the song that you're wanting to be able to play now
that is a skill that i have that many guitarists worth their salt should have
but it's a really tough thing even for people who have been playing a number of
years
this does not come naturally to everyone
and my goal is to train you to be able to do it and
this sheet holds the key
as I say this is every strumming pattern on my beginners course and they are
ordered
there's the basic four (strums per bar) on the beat, four down strums on the beat to
start off with (strumming pattern number 1)and everyone is numbered in order from
there from 22 13 in total but they're in different columns
also and this is how i have taught a lot of you guys that are watching this video
now how to play any of the songs that we've gone following that beginners
course that i mentioned a minute ago and all of those songs
I'll teach starting off with just strumming on the beat and then we go on
any one of these specific columns
starting off and with eighth all down streaming on an 80 bpm
so each tier is on different levels which goes up with the levels of the
beginners course and not exactly to the levels because some people and learning
pick up strumming a lot faster and some needed a little bit longer and have
taken that into account with this but the real revolutionary thing is I've
taken into account the genres and the speed of the song so that you can find a
strumming pattern for any song you would want to take on that will work for you
and let me try and talk you through this now but as I say this is a pretty big
concept and if you don't get it fully now you may have to trust me and you
will trust me because I've taught you to do it before in the songs that i have
taught on my youtube channel
this is simply a visual representation for you to figure out the way that I
have taught you to do strumming in the past but to be able to do it for any
song
not just the songs that i filmed on my website and I've done that by putting
them in certain columns in three columns to be precise and the first column is
a series of strumming patterns that work for slower tempered songs will cover exactly
what tempos and bpm of songs a little later on that the slower tempo songs
mean your hands are moving in a certain way
and a different way to how they'll be moving for the faster tempo songs which
are on the middle column and then finally the third column is full of joy
more specific strumming patterns such as off be streaming for reggae triplets
drumming for folk and blues strumming and another for key
Bob Dylan styles for me if you've been playing guitar for a long time already
you may wish to just follow this sheet and pick out the strumming patterns that
go along with a certain strands the slower ones then the faster ones and
then the genre specific ones and you'll get to your end goal of bend it being
able to do the higher-level strumming patterns at the bottom of the sheet much
quicker by simply going direct down that column if you're a beginner
I would advise just so that you gain the skills and your bail and gain the skills
acquired before you move on a little too soon
I would go through them in the order that they're written on the sheet in the
way that they're numbered but you always have the option if you feel that this is
something that you're able to do to go straight to the strumming patterns down
the column and that is how this course is going to enable you
so instinctively know which them in patterns to try and go for first and
also will get you strumming the higher level
strumming patterns and get you sounding better on guitar and in all the real
songs that you would want to take on beyond the lessons that I filmed you'll
be able to do those so much quicker and easier by following this method and as I
say if you want to know a quick inkling as what that method is any of the
streaming videos that I've already filmed on youtube
when we've gone for real songs that is the way i'm teaching this course I'm
just let me into the secret of how I taught them and have arranged them with
this sheet to guide you through it and this series of videos if you choose this
watch them all in order that you've always got the option to fast-track if
that's what you would choose to do