15 Must Learn Strumming Patterns for Guitar

Name: 15 Must Learn Strumming Patterns for Guitar
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Strum the most popular rhythms of all your favourite guitar songs for acoustic and electric guitarists

Created byJulian Cooper

Last updated 3/2023

English

What you'll learn

Learn strumming and rhythms on guitar used by your favourite bands or artists
Understand rhythm and chord charts
Learn how to count in 4/4, and 6/8 in 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes and 1/16 notes.
Practise many different strumming patterns with jam tracks.
Gain insight into the secret rhythm trick the professionals use to keep time when strumming.

Course content

4 sections • 16 lectures • 2h 32m total length

Introduction13:08

Lesson 1 "The Easy One"9:08
A simple 1 down strum to each beat, Em to Asus2 chord progression in 4/4.
Lesson 2 "The Let it Be"6:47
1 beat per strum here, all down strums. We also have a mid bar chord change and 3 chords in the progression. D major, A major and E minor.
Lesson 3 "The Call the Police"7:24
Here we practise some up strums and build our strength. A 4 chord progression here with on the beat up strums. Am, C, F, and Em chords.
Lesson 4 "The Slow Cowboy"7:17
Our first pattern using both up and down strums. Just a two chord change here and a simple pattern to ease us in. Chord progression is C to G, with a cowboy vibe!
Lesson 5 "The 500 Miles"7:48
A nice easy change from E to Am and C, using up and down strumming patterns with a powerful rhythm.

Lesson 6 "The Bob Marley"8:14
A reggae style piece to learn with off beat up strumming, using A,D and E style.
Lesson 7 "The Proud Mary"8:03
A really cool strumming pattern that features muted/dead string strike on beats 2 and 4. A well used pattern with a chord progression featuring C, Am, F and G.
Lesson 8 "The Popular One"8:31
A popular strumming pattern used by many artists from Van Morrison to the Foo Fighters. You may have heard people say Down, Down, Up, Up, Down. This is that pattern and we move through the chords G, Em7, D and C+9.
Lesson 9 "The Time of your Life"8:07
Building upon our last strumming pattern we add an extra down and up strum at the end of the pattern and speed up the tempo. We have to be very precise with the chord changes now as we have less time in between. The pattern is used in song such as Green Day's "Time of your Life" and Outkast's "Hey Ya". Chords here are Am, C, G and E.
Lesson 10 "The Fast Cowboy"8:54
A fast Down, Down, Up, Down, Up pattern here. Based on a Johnny Cash style rhythm using a 1/4/5 chord progression of C, F and G with an unconventional 2 beat turnaround bar. A little bit trickier than our slow cowboy!

Lesson 11 "The Impatient One"11:31
Here we have an off beat chord change at the end of bar 1 and bar 3 of our 4 bar chord progression. Changing off beat at count 4 + giving a sense of urgency and momentum. Chords are Em, D, Am and C.
Lesson 12 "The Three's Company"8:59
A chord progression in 6/8 timing where we count 2 sets of 3 8th notes in a bar. Giving us the feeling of triplets or 3's, quite a different vibe and feeling to our 4 beats to the bar. Here we are using chords E, G, C and D.
Lesson 13 "The Wonderwall"14:13
An awesome 16th note strumming pattern here based upon the iconic "Wonderwall" strumming pattern by Oasis. Using very similar chords we have G, Dsus4, A7sus4 as our verse and Em7, A7sus4, C+9 as our chorus.
Lesson 14 "The California Hotel"11:28
A chord progression featuring some barre chords and a fast 16th note strumming patterns with many muted/dead string strikes or rakes. Based loosely on Hotel California by the Eagles. Chords are Bm, A, E, F#7, D and G.
Lesson 15 "The Fast Funky Strum"12:49
Our final pattern is a fast funky 16th note pattern using barre chords and hammer-ons into a chord. We also have a lot of muted strikes here and a real cool 70's vibe.

Requirements

A guitar and a PC

Description

Welcome to 15 Must Learn Strumming Patterns for Guitar!

- Do you get confused when trying to strum chords or rhythms on guitar, are you not sure where and when to strum up or down?

- Would you like to know the simple rules that keep the professional guitarists from your favourite bands in time and on the beat?

- Are you stuck playing the same old strumming patterns or rhythms over and over to the same old songs? Are you getting bored and need some new ideas?

- Are you missing the beat or tripping over yourself rhythmically? Are you lost when trying to count the beat?

- Would you like to know the strumming patterns and rhythms used by Green Day, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Oasis, Neil Young, Ed Sheeran, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival etc.

Hey, for those of you who don't know me I am Jules from GuitarJoolz, a guitar teacher from England with over 25 years experience teaching guitar and playing professionally. I teach online, privately and in educational facilities and I am the creator of the worldwide bestseller "Pure Pentatonic Power".

Recently students had been asking for a course to teach all the popular strumming patterns and also how to count rhythms and put strums in the right places at the right time. And so "15 must learn strumming patterns for guitar" was born.

You have 15 strumming patterns or rhythms based on the most popular strumming patterns I have found over the years. Ones tried and tested and used over and over by your favourite bands and performers. Artists such as Oasis, Bob Marley, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Police, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Eagles, The Foo Fighters, Van Morrison, The Doors etc.

For each lesson you have a professionally recorded track to learn and play along with. It is supplied to you at 3 different speeds to suit everyone's ability. Rhythm charts, chord boxes and strumming directions are all on screen and you have twin HD camera angles to view all demos and lessons. We cover 4/4 timing, 6/8 timing and strumming in quarter notes, eighth notes and 16 notes (which is where things get tricky!). Nothing is left to the imagination and I have your back from start to finish.

This course is fundamental, educational and a lot of fun. See you on the inside!

Jules from GuitarJoolz

Who this course is for:

Beginner and Intermediate guitar players

15 Must Learn Strumming Patterns for Guitar

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 13min

Strumming Patterns 1 - 55 lectures • 38min

Strumming Patterns 6 - 105 lectures • 42min

Strumming Patterns 11 - 155 lectures • 59min

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