STRUMMING IS DRUMMING: 51 Must-Know Guitar Strum Patterns
Learn essential strumming patterns and techniques with this comprehensive guitar course. Perfect for beginners to advanced players, discover the common grooves found in popular songs and develop your rhythm vocabulary. Improve your strumming technique and understand how to choose the right pattern for any song. Ideal for guitarists, teachers, and songwriters seeking inspiration and resources. Start with the basics and progress through the logical order of difficulty. Enhance your musicality and create a solid foundation for your guitar playing. Unlock the power of strumming and elevate your sound.
What you’ll learn
- Practice and perform 51 essential strumming patterns, taken directly from popular songs.
- 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 rhythmic devices found in recorded popular songs.
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.
There is lots of variation going on within the 51 basic patterns. Every artist slightly tweaks how they perform the patterns. So we will also talk about a few variations for each essential pattern, so you will really be learning much more than 51 strum 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.
Who this course is for:
- 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.
