strumming, please help an old man

Rickard · 2008-07-25T01:21:59Z

Hi- this is my first contact with this site! I know there are loads of Q & A's on strumming but I can't find what I need. I am 60 years old and have been trying to learn acoustic for months. I thought I was getting on quite well, about 15 to 20 open chords + f, bm.b7 etc, until I tried playing Donovan, catch the wind. There are only 3 chords but I couldn't get it to sound anything like the way I remember it, so eventually I tried youtube, which has made matters worse! He is strumming pretty fast but you only hear a fairly slow bass note beat with a few other notes hear and there. I know you don't strike the strings on every strum but how do you learn to pick out just the occasional notes when your strumming that fast. I've got a bit of arthritus in my fingers shall I give up now or is there a way I can learn? - :(

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