STRUMMING IS DRUMMING: Learn 32 Easy Guitar Strum Patterns

STRUMMING IS DRUMMING: Learn 32 Easy Guitar Strum Patterns, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.44, with 103 lectures, based on 8 reviews, and has 119 subscribers.

You will learn about Practice and perform 32 essential and EASY strumming patterns, taken directly from popular songs. Study 92 additional pattern Variations that demonstrate how real songs elaborate on the main patterns. You will learn a total of 124 strumming patterns! Learn good strumming technique. Learn basic music theory topics relevant to strumming. Listen to any song and know what strumming pattern will fit the best. Develop a vocabulary of all the common strumming patterns and rhythm styles found in recorded popular songs. Have fun while practicing along to drum tracks! Find Freedom with your strumming! This course is ideal for individuals who are Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to learn proper strumming technique for a good sound or Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to know what strumming patterns they need to know to play the songs they like or Guitarists looking to build their rhythm vocabulary or Guitar teachers looking for strumming pattern resources for their students or Songwriters looking for ideas. A strum pattern is often the foundation of a song. It is particularly useful for Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to learn proper strumming technique for a good sound or Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to know what strumming patterns they need to know to play the songs they like or Guitarists looking to build their rhythm vocabulary or Guitar teachers looking for strumming pattern resources for their students or Songwriters looking for ideas. A strum pattern is often the foundation of a song.

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Title: STRUMMING IS DRUMMING: Learn 32 Easy Guitar Strum Patterns

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.44

Number of Lectures: 103

Number of Published Lectures: 103

Number of Curriculum Items: 103

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 103

Original Price: $74.99

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What You Will Learn

Practice and perform 32 essential and EASY strumming patterns, taken directly from popular songs.
Study 92 additional pattern Variations that demonstrate how real songs elaborate on the main patterns. You will learn a total of 124 strumming patterns!
Learn good strumming technique.
Learn basic music theory topics relevant to strumming.
Listen to any song and know what strumming pattern will fit the best.
Develop a vocabulary of all the common strumming patterns and rhythm styles found in recorded popular songs.
Have fun while practicing along to drum tracks!
Find Freedom with your strumming!

Who Should Attend

Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to learn proper strumming technique for a good sound
Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to know what strumming patterns they need to know to play the songs they like
Guitarists looking to build their rhythm vocabulary
Guitar teachers looking for strumming pattern resources for their students
Songwriters looking for ideas. A strum pattern is often the foundation of a song.

Target Audiences

Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to learn proper strumming technique for a good sound
Total beginner to advanced guitarists who want to know what strumming patterns they need to know to play the songs they like
Guitarists looking to build their rhythm vocabulary
Guitar teachers looking for strumming pattern resources for their students
Songwriters looking for ideas. A strum pattern is often the foundation of a song.

Strumming Is Drumming.

Strumming is thinking like a drummer.

Strumming is making drum set grooves with downstrokes and upstrokes on your guitar, kind of like beatboxing.

Strumming is thinking about the rhythm side of music, not the notes.

Strummers improvise.

A really great way to learn to strum would be to learn some of the common grooves that are out there.

What do “Drive” by Incubus, “My Wish” by Rascal Flatts, “Closing Time” by Semisonic, “One” by U2, and many other songs have in common? Basically the same strum pattern that I call “The Rock Beat”!

This course is the result of research.

I listened to 500 songs with clearly recorded strumming and put them in categories, eventually narrowing 500 songs into 51 essential patterns, and then chose 32 of the 51 as EASY patterns.

There is lots of variation going on within the 32 basic patterns, since every artist slightly tweaks how they perform the patterns. So we will also talk about a few variations for many of the essential patterns.

In addition to learning lots of patterns, I will also show you how to strum with good technique.

We will start BASIC, then add more and more finesse as we go.

A guitar beginner will be able make his/her way through the patterns if they start with the technique sections, and keep going in order of the sections. The sections progress more or less in a logical order of difficulty.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Good Strumming Technique

Lecture 1: Mindset

Lecture 2: Holding The Guitar And The Strumming Arm

Lecture 3: How To Hold And Angle The Pick

Lecture 4: Downstrokes #1 (Drawing Curves/The Gravity Drop)

Lecture 5: Downstrokes #2 (Relaxation/Wrist Bend/Opening Of Elbow)

Lecture 6: Downstrokes #3 (Silent Upstrokes Between Downstrokes)

Lecture 7: How To Use The Pro Metronome App/Rhythm Theory

Lecture 8: Upstrokes Practice And Technique

Chapter 3: Strumming Finesse

Lecture 1: Mindset

Lecture 2: String Sets Exercises

Lecture 3: String Sets Motion Technique

Lecture 4: Dynamics Exercises

Lecture 5: The Accent Exercise

Chapter 4: 8th Note Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #1 – The Easy Listening Groove

Lecture 2: VARIATIONS – The Easy Listening Groove

Lecture 3: PATTERN #2 – The Down Punch (Plus 1 Variation)

Lecture 4: PATTERN #3 – The Skip Beat 3

Lecture 5: PATTERN #4 – ONE! & 2 AND! & FOUR!

Lecture 6: VARIATIONS – ONE! & 2 AND! & FOUR!

Lecture 7: PATTERN #5 – AND! THREE!

Lecture 8: VARIATIONS – AND! THREE!

Lecture 9: PATTERN #6 – UPS! (right hand strum mutes)

Lecture 10: VARIATIONS – UPS!

Lecture 11: PATTERN #7 – The Rule Breaker (Plus 2 Variations)

Lecture 12: PRACTICE The 8th Note Patterns (pdf download)

Lecture 13: Practice Track: 80 bpm

Lecture 14: Practice Track: 106 bpm

Lecture 15: Practice Track: 126 bpm

Lecture 16: Practice Track: 140 bpm

Chapter 5: 8th Note Swing Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #8 – Easy Listening Swing (What Is Swing?)

Lecture 2: VARIATIONS – Easy Listening Swing (left hand mutes + improvisational upstrokes)

Lecture 3: PATTERN #9 – Skip Beat 3 Swing

Lecture 4: PATTERN #10 – Texas Shuffle/Swing UPS (with VARIATIONS)

Lecture 5: PRACTICE 8th Note Swing Patterns (pdf download)

Lecture 6: Practice Track: 80 bpm

Lecture 7: Practice Track: 106 bpm

Lecture 8: Practice Track: 126 bpm

Lecture 9: Practice Track: 140 bpm

Chapter 6: 3/4 Time Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #11 – Straight Time 3/4 with VARIATIONS (First Bass Strums)

Lecture 2: PATTERN #12 – Swing Time 3/4 with VARIATIONS

Lecture 3: PRACTICE 3/4 Patterns (pdf download)

Lecture 4: Practice Track: 165 bpm (3/4 straight time)

Lecture 5: Practice Track: 72 bpm (3/4 swing time)

Lecture 6: Practice Track: 82 bpm (3/4 swing time)

Lecture 7: Practice Track: 100 bpm (3/4 swing time)

Lecture 8: Practice Track: 170 bpm (3/4 swing time)

Chapter 7: 6/8 Time Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #13 – All Downs 6/8 (What Is 6/8 Time?)

Lecture 2: VARIATIONS – All Downs 6/8 Swing (16th notes)

Lecture 3: PATTERN #14 – DUDU 6/8

Lecture 4: PATTERN #15 – UDU 6/8 + UDU 6/8 Swing

Lecture 5: PATTERN #16 – Three Into Four 6/8

Lecture 6: VARIATIONS – Three Into Four 6/8

Lecture 7: Practicing 6/8 Patterns/Spotify (with PDF download)

Lecture 8: Practice Track: 116 bpm (6/8 time)

Lecture 9: Practice Track: 140 bpm (6/8 time)

Lecture 10: Practice Track: 160 bpm (6/8 time)

Lecture 11: Practice Track: 180 bpm (6/8 time)

Lecture 12: Practice Track: 216 bpm (6/8 time)

Chapter 8: 16th Note Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #17 – The Rock Beat (Easy Listening 16th)/What Are 16th Notes?

Lecture 2: VARIATIONS – The Rock Beat

Lecture 3: PATTERN #18 – Down Space Down

Lecture 4: VARIATIONS – Down Space Down

Lecture 5: PATTERN #19 – Karma Police + 1 VARIATION

Lecture 6: PATTERN #20 – The Down Punch

Lecture 7: VARIATIONS – The Down Punch

Lecture 8: VARIATIONS (Part 2) – The Boom-Chick Down Punch

Lecture 9: PATTERN #21 – The DUD

Lecture 10: VARIATIONS – The DUD

Chapter 9: More 16th Note Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #22 – The 3 Into 4

Lecture 2: VARIATIONS – The 3 Into 4

Lecture 3: PATTERN #23 – ONE! AND! FOUR!

Lecture 4: VARIATIONS – ONE! AND! FOUR!

Lecture 5: PATTERN #24 – Boom-Chick

Lecture 6: VARIATIONS – Boom-Chick

Lecture 7: VARIATIONS (Part 2)- Boom-Chick with UPS!

Lecture 8: PATTERN #25 – Boom-Chick Skip 2 and 4

Lecture 9: VARIATIONS – Boom-Chick Skip 2 and 4

Lecture 10: PATTERN #26 – UPS!

Lecture 11: VARIATIONS – UPS!

Lecture 12: Practicing 16th Note Patterns/Spotify (PDF download)

Lecture 13: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Groove #1 – Easy Listening Groove

Lecture 14: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Groove #2 – The Down Punch

Lecture 15: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Groove #3 – Sparse Easy Listening

Lecture 16: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Groove #4 – Boom-Chick

Chapter 10: 16th Note Swing Patterns

Lecture 1: PATTERN #27 – Boom-Chick Swing

Lecture 2: PATTERN #28 – Easy Listening Swing

Lecture 3: Practicing 16th Note Swing Patterns/Spotify (PDF download)

Lecture 4: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Boom-Chick Swing

Lecture 5: PRACTICE TRACK – 16th Note Easy Listening Swing

Instructors

Sean Huddleston
Guitar Instructor

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