Tomas
With ref. to strumming pattern, which I think is D DU D, is the 4th beat a rest, and if so how is this indicated on the notation? In your video, at first you seemed to add an extra downstrum (beat 4) and later sort of paused over the bass strings saying ‘rest’. This is really confusing me as I already find strumming (with correct counting) difficult.
Hi John,
I can see this to be confusing with the approach that you’re taking now. You’re trying to intellectualize the strumming pattern. This is not what I had intended at this level. We will get into how to read and notate strumming patterns in the 6th adventure. For now, you’ll best be served by just trying to copy without intellectualizing what I’m doing on the guitar. I understand this is not easy for adults… me included.
Yet that really is what’s best for you right now.
Don’t worry about getting the strumming pattern just right. In fact, I’d rather you just strum down on each beat one time and forget about the strum pattern. If you look at the tab sheet you’ll see that each measure has two chords. For you, this means each chord gets to the or strums. By doing this you begin to feel where the beats are. This will help you more than trying to fit a strum pattern to the song.
Tomas
With ref. to strumming pattern, which I think is D DU D, is the 4th beat a rest, and if so how is this indicated on the notation? In your video, at first you seemed to add an extra downstrum (beat 4) and later sort of paused over the bass strings saying ‘rest’. This is really confusing me as I already find strumming (with correct counting) difficult.
Hi John,
I can see this to be confusing with the approach that you’re taking now. You’re trying to intellectualize the strumming pattern. This is not what I had intended at this level. We will get into how to read and notate strumming patterns in the 6th adventure. For now, you’ll best be served by just trying to copy without intellectualizing what I’m doing on the guitar. I understand this is not easy for adults… me included.
Yet that really is what’s best for you right now.
Don’t worry about getting the strumming pattern just right. In fact, I’d rather you just strum down on each beat one time and forget about the strum pattern. If you look at the tab sheet you’ll see that each measure has two chords. For you, this means each chord gets to the or strums. By doing this you begin to feel where the beats are. This will help you more than trying to fit a strum pattern to the song.
Very Nice .