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20/01/2008 5:37 pm
Na na na na na na na.....na na na na na na na. Be the ball, Danny.
But seriously, some good advice in here, thanks everyone!
20/01/2008 5:39 pm
If you want to get friendly with your local guitar shop, try throwing eggs in there.......
:wink:
20/01/2008 5:51 pm
"What is the sound of one hand strumming?"
...he asked, monotonously.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
20/01/2008 7:17 pm
if the other one is fretting a C chord....C
20/01/2008 7:26 pm
what if the other hand is not fretting a C chord?
20/01/2008 8:15 pm
then not a C chord.
20/01/2008 8:28 pm
This is your egg...
This is your egg on strumming...
Guitar teacher offering lessons in Plainfield IL
20/01/2008 9:05 pm
ROFL, this thread has become absurd....
Noteboat and/or Nick - but what's the frying pan? :?
20/01/2008 9:21 pm
:)
Guitar teacher offering lessons in Plainfield IL
20/01/2008 10:18 pm
Good one! Best laugh all day.
"Nothing...can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts."
21/01/2008 11:55 am
Ill try pull this back on topic.
If you know you 16th strumming pattern:
Alternating up and down
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
You can modify it, so it would be something like this
1 2e a3e+a4e a
keep the same rhythm as before, so 1 2 3 4 would all be down and any + would be down, all e's and a's are up strums, give that a go maybe?
David
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21/01/2008 12:14 pm
How DARE you put this back on topic? :lol:
I'm not sure that a specific strum was the answer, but how to make all strums better.
Relax, get a metronome, don't be too self critical and practice.
The secret to playing guitar is to enjoy the process of getting better. I still do.
21/01/2008 12:55 pm
The secret to playing guitar is to enjoy the process of getting better. I still do.
I think that is the most important thing to learning guitar.
There is a book called "Effortless Mastery" that sort of goes into this kind of thing. In a more (much more) round about manner it says what Nick is saying. Forget the logical side of strumming, breathe, relax, and stum.
Its also a very important thing, while you are learning new chords (all of them when you are a beginner) to focus on what the fretting hand is doing prior to worrying about the strum. If you have fingers touching strings that dont need to be touched, it will sound bad. Make a chord and pick each string and let it ring out. If its supposed to ring out, and its not.. it could sound bad.
I guess what I am saying is that while you say its your strumming it could be your fretting.
As a side, I dont really recommend the book. Its has some great parts to it, but it is awfully full of fluffle other parts.
As a second side, I really like the Zen Nick.. Can we KEEP him MOM?? Huh Can WE?
Jim
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
21/01/2008 12:59 pm
More round about than eggs and rugs? :shock:
21/01/2008 1:23 pm
over thinking it causes most of the problems.
like it was mentioned before, relax and let your natural rhythm take over.
a metronome helps to keep you on beat, but a little off beat adds to the mix as well (unless you're alone of course :roll: )
a friend of mine who has been gigging since the 60s' commented that i was adding a very good rhythm to our recent jam where he gives lessons and was amazed that i had never had a lesson.
not meaning to blow my own horn but to reflect that all i did was jump in and let the groove dictate without any thought to up or down stroke or whatever.
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