STRUMMING SIMPLIFIED: 51 Guitar Rhythms For All Styles!

The fundamentals of your strumming hand.  It's your built in metronome!

Playing Quarter Notes & Eighth Notes in 4/4.  The basis of half of the rhythms you'll play in popular music.

Playing Sixteenth Notes in 4/4.  The basis of most rhythms you'll play with a "danceable" groove.

A fun exercise to do with a metronome to greatly improve your strumming hand's feel and tempo accuracy.

You'll learn what triplets are and how to use them.

The shuffle beat is the basis for all blues music, and blues influenced music - which is more music than you think!

How to read the charts and tablature, and the "virtual chalkboard."  Download the attached PDF!  "The Rhythms" PDF includes detailed charts for each Rhythm you'll be learning.  (If you have any trouble downloading it on the Udemy app, try doing so by logging into Udemy on your computer browser.)

Download your drum beats (Mp3s) to practice with!  I've included many tempos for each drum beat.

Let's find the downbeat with the downstroke!

Let's find the upbeat with the upstroke!

Let's play an Eighth Note groove with up and downstrokes.

Let's play a shuffle.  You'll recognize it from Blues music.

Let's strum a very popular rhythm!

This is probably the most used strumming pattern on the planet Earth.  And it's easy!  :)

It's "time" for a new Time Signature!  3/4

Time for another Time Signature!  6/8.  This one always feels like flying or sailing.

Our first percussive rhythm will sound a bit Reggae.  A great start for getting used to incorporating this technique into your playing!

A very popular percussive strumming pattern

Another fun variation on percussive strumming

Let's take a famous strumming pattern and add percussion to it, using Electric guitar.

Yet another cool percussive rhythm!

Now we're going to combine "missing" the strings AND percussive strumming sounds.

It's time to learn a new and different way to get percussive sounds with the strumming hand.

Here's a new rhythm using the new percussive strumming technique.

Let's play Eighth notes with all downstrokes.  This adds nice energy to the Eighth note feel!

Let's learn how to palm mute!

Time to mix palm muting along with letting chords ring out!

Here's a different way to use palm muting with a single open string.

Another cool and very popular way to utilize palm muting and open strumming!

Yet another cool rhythmic variation of palm muting and open strumming.

Let's jump right in to our first 16th note strumming pattern.  These are a lot of fun!

Very cool "danceable" rhythm!  Famous from the song "Faith" by George Michael.

An EXCELLENT 16th note strumming pattern to learn!  It'll help you so much with these types of rhythms across the board.

Another great 16th note rhythm used in ALL styles of music. Jack Johnson used it a lot for example.

This one is impossible not to get up and move to!  Dave Matthews uses this style a lot.

This is our first FUNKY rhythm!  Prince would play this style, for example.

New technique here!  Chord sliding.  Very bluesy with a funky feel.  Stevie Ray Vaughn would play this one!

This one is super funky!  Sounds like Motown Funk!  And more Chord Sliding

You'll totally recognize this one!!  Very fun.  Based on 16th note strumming you learned in the previous section.

This is a killer rock rhythm, but sounds great with any style of music!

Here's a cool Metal riff using triplet palm mutes on the Low E string.

Here's a cool Metal riff using triplet palm mutes on the A string.

This one's a classic Metal riff with a 16th note feel, and palm muting on the Low E string.

One more Metal riff!  This is the famous "gallop" rhythm.

Let's take a simple rhythm you already know and doing something very new with it!

Here's a new strumming technique for you!  It's often called a Calypso strum or a "rake".  Very Spanish sounding!

The famous Blues Riff!

This is a cool 6/8 Motown style ballad rhythm.

This one's a nice, up-tempo, Motown rhythm. Kinda like "Rollin' On The River".

Let's alternate the bass note and get that cool country sound we all know very well!

Let's separate the bass note and get another cool country sound!

A super cool pop/rock rhythm with percussion on the beat of "1."  Very unique.

This one is all about those Triplets!  Very Beatles sounding.

Let me introduce you to the basics of how fingerstyle playing is done.

Really cool fingerstyle rhythm here with a percussive slap.  "John Mayer" style.

This is a great fingerstyle picking pattern to know.  Works great with any chord!

You definitely want to learn this one!  This picking pattern is used all over the place.

"Travis picking" is essential to know for playing Country and Bluegrass music. It sounds like two people playing at once!

Let's steal this technique from the Banjo players to play another cool fingerstyle pattern on the Guitar!

This is probably the most famous fingerstyle picking pattern on the planet!

Let's finish up the course with another fun Travis Picking rhythm!