How To Sound Better Strumming Guitar - Forget Patterns!
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Published 2021-06-27
In this lesson, I show you 3 ways you can achieve a better guitar strumming sound.
- Guitar Strumming Approach 1: Dynamics
When strumming guitar, you do not strum all the strings, all the time. This makes for a very bland and flat strumming sound with absolutely no dynamic to it. You must accent certain parts of the beat by targeting different strings when strumming.
- Guitar Strumming Approach 2: Palm Muting
You will learn how to use palm muting to create nice dynamics with your strumming. Like targeting strings, this allows certain beats to be accented, bringing much shape to your strumming.
- Guitar Strumming Approach 3: Percussive Strums
You will also learn how to bring a groove to your strumming with the percussive strumming technique. This is achieved with percussive hits on beats 2 and 4 of each bar as you strum.
In this video, I show you how to do all this.
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All Comments (21)
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Tablature for examples presented in this lesson can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/guitar-strumming-s…
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I HATE strumming patterns and never in my life want to play DDU UDU again. Just within 10 minutes of watching your video, I apply the techniques and finally feel like my strumming is singing!!
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How does this channel only have 15.2K subscribers? Must be the most underrated channel on Youtube! Awesome work, maestro! Thank you.
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Please make a video if possible on singing while playing guitar, specifically separating the rhythm of the guitar part from the singing because that really trips me up.
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This is a great lesson for a beginner to get a look forward to how he’s going to get to that place he wants to be down the road. A map; a confidence builder. Of course, nobody could do all this 10 minutes after watching this lesson, but I think it would calm a lot a beginners down to see this and understand the pathway that lies in front of them.
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This is the lesson I have been looking for since I started playing. My strumming didn't sound the way I wanted it to, but I couldn't figure out why. Learning new strumming patterns didn't help -- it was the same playing but with different patterns. It was everything you go over here. Thanks for the lesson.
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Thank you so much for this video!!! I couldn’t stand to hear myself playing my guitar and sounding like a robot strumming!!! I was about to give up..😢 But you saved a guitar player with this video, thank you so much!🙏🏻☺️
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What an excellent teacher Simon is. So zrare to find such quality on YouTube! Thankyou so much for taking the time to share your knowledge. It really is appreciated. You are the real deal.
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Nice lesson, thank you! Very helpful.
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This was just such a great lesson, thank you.
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Best explanation of the percussive slap I've seen on Youtube. Excellent!
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You’re a great teacher and these are great lessons! Thank you
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Simon, what a great lesson! I have seen most of these techniques before but your explanation and demonstration made the techniques so much clearer. Love the practice ideas as well. Thanks
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Good lesson encapsulating some of the techniques to improve strumming. I have been exposed to these from other videos but nice to have several techniques in one place. Also good close up and explanation of the percussive slap technique which will help me improve!
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Great lesson, thank you!
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Thanks a bunch! This lesson was awesome. I've been trying to up my strumming game, and this video really hit the mark. It's definitely one of the best lessons I've ever seen. And those practice tips are much appreciated.
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Great explanation and example of using a percussive hit. Great lesson! Thanks!
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Thanks so much. This is an area I really need to focus on.
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"Focus on the sound..." Thanks a bunch. God bless you.
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thank you for the video! extremely helpful!
