The Ultimate Strumming Guide for Guitar (Session 3): Techniques for Beginner to Advanced Players

1. Course Catalogue Overview: Are you tired playing the same rhythm, strumming patterns over and over again? Are you ready to learn some new rhythm strumming patterns? Are you a beginner? Just learning how to play the guitar? Have you played guitar for awhile and need some inspiration to get you out of a strumming slump. Rhythm guitar strumming catalog by Greg toboggan can help. Eight patterns that each volume step-by-step guide with rhythmic notation to get her to advance level downloadable PDFs, drumbeat to accompany your practice. Volume one contains 81 bar patterns, quarter-inch note rhythms. Future volumes will cover all patterns. Three parts to each volume. Part one, beginner videos to play along with a different rhythms notated. Part two, intermediate made rhythms with eight chord progressions play along and PDFs are provided. Or three, advanced eight rhythms used in new ways. Ideas for alternate techniques used on the electric guitar. Rhythm guitarist, catalog by Greg to bone. You will be inspired. 2. Volume 3 Intro: Welcome to volume of three of my rhythm guitar strumming catalog. I hope you enjoyed volumes 1and 2 and volume three. we're going to get into a little more complex rhythms. With this new volume, we're going to be having some tied notes. So instead of just playing straight eighth notes and quarter notes, we will be having some that are akin to a dotted quarter notes. And we'll talk about some of the strumming that goes along with that. But it's really important again that we stick with the down-up pattern. And you'll see that how when you have a tied note, which is a note that's just carried out for a longer duration. That it really helps the guitar player, if you focus on the down- up patterns again until we get to another section of the video where we talk about when you can let those rules go by once you have the rhythm ingrained in your muscle memory of your hands. So once again, we will be dealing with quarter notes and eighth notes. And we'll have tied notes which will be dotted quarter notes, basically carried over. 3. Learning Pattern #17 (1 2+ 4): Patterns 17. For pattern 17, we have down, down, up, down. So the tied note will be carried over to beat three. So we're not actually going to strum down on three, it's gonna be down, down. So you notice when there's a tie, we keep our hand moving down and up to keep the rhythm flowing. But in slow motion I'm going down, down. I'm not hitting on three, but my hand does come down and then I hit on four. So it's down 12+34. So let's try that a little bit. One, two, ready, and we'll play with the D chord. So let's try that. 1234, down, down up, down, down, down, up, down, down. Let's try it with a G chord. Down up, down, down. So this could be played very dramatically if you play something like this. So you can see how the gap actually adds some interest to the rhythm. Instead of just playing down. When you do something where you're not playing, that sometimes is as important as what you're playing. So try that rhythm over and over until you feel comfortable with it. 4. Learning Pattern #18 (1 2+ 4+): Pattern number 18 is very similar to the first pattern, but we'll be going down, down up, down up down, down up. So the tie is this still going from two to three? We also have a four. And so once again, we'll try with D chord again. And we're just going to go 12+34+. And so it'll be down, down, up , down, down, up. And we'll try it with a G chord, 234, back to a D chord. And then you can move it a little bit more and just get some motion on it. 5. Learning Pattern #19 (1 2+ +4): Pattern 19 is a little bit similar to that one that we just did. And this one is down, down, up, up, down. So it'll be, let's try it on a C chord this time. So it'll be down down up up down. This is a pattern that you'll use a lot. Pattern #19 is one that's very, very useful. And again, some of these will feel more comfortable for you and some will feel a little bit awkward. But it's good to go through all the patterns because when you're writing a song, the pattern can actually change what you're thinking about, the rhythm and the motion of the song moving forward. So again, pattern 19 will be... watch how my hand goes down down up up down. So it's still moving down and up. But I'm just touching the pick when I have to - hand goes down. So the motion is nice and relaxing. It's going down, down, up. That's why I say to you it's really important to get the strokes proper when you're doing this. We're going to do it with the D chord. 6. Learning Pattern #20 (1 2+ +4+): Pattern 20, very similar. Again, and the rhythm will be down, down up, up, down, up. So let's try that and we'll use the A chord. So it'll be 1 2 +, go down on the three, up on the three and, down on the four and up on the 4+. So it's... E chord. Nice and relaxed. 7. Learning Pattern #21 (1 2 3+): So those patterns, were basically holding the tie on the 2+ and carrying them over. So what we're gonna do on these beats now is we're going to focus on the 3+. So we're going to be carrying it over on beat 3 and the tie into the beat 4. And we'll try a G chord for this. So it will be, for pattern 21 .... and you're not going to play on four. Okay, so let's try it again with the G chord. One, two, ready, go. 8. Learning Pattern #22 (1 2 3+ +): Pattern 22. So we use a C chord and it goes down, down, down, up, up, down... We'll try it with a the G chord. 9. Learning Pattern #23 (1 2+ +): Pattern 23 is 12+3+4, and we're going to have a tied note in two places on the 2+ and 3+. So the pattern will be, so we'll do it with an A minor chord, down, down, up, up So it kind of creates some tension there because you feel like you need to strum again. Let's try going into an E chord. A Minor. 10. Learning Pattern #24 (1 2+ + +): Pattern 24 will play with a D minor chord and it goes like this. 234. 11. Pattern #17 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 17, the chords are G, E minor, C, and D. 12. Pattern #18 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 18, the chords are G, E minor, C and D7. 13. Pattern #19 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 19, the chords are A D E E7. 14. Pattern #20 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 20. The chords are A minor, D minor, E and E7. 15. Pattern #21 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 21, the chords are C, A minor, D minor and G. 16. Pattern #22 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 22. The chords are C, A minor, D minor, G7. Okay. 17. Pattern #23 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 23. Chords are C, A minor, F, and G. 18. Pattern #24 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 24, the chords are D, E minor, G, and A7. Okay. 19. Part 3 Intro: So for part three, we're going to take our patterns that you've learned and we're going to experiment with them and try a little bit more advanced level techniques. Instead of just doing the beats and the drums, very simply, I'm going to add a couple of ideas to speed it up and use the electric guitar with a little bit of distortion sometimes and sometimes clean just to give you an idea of what happens. 20. Applications for Pattern #17: So in the pattern 17, we had down, down, up, down, down, down, up down, down, down, up down, down, down, up. But if we want to play this a little bit more, sort of rock and roll, we might want to try something like this. Down, down, up, down. So that's sort of with eighth notes in between. I keep that down, down, up, down, rhythm, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down. You can add a little bit of distortion if you want it to go. So I kinda keeping that .... I've got my wrist with the palm of my hand on the strings. And i'm, i'm doing the eighth notes sort of along here. 21. Applications for Pattern #18: So for pattern 18, similar to the pattern we just did, the rhythm is gonna be down, down, up, down, up. So it's gonna be more like this. Down, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up. So we can tie over the notes for the 2+ to the 3 and we hold it, we can change the tempo. Again I'm just doing with the eighth notes. If you want to try them with the barre chords, it'll be 1234. You can even try it faster. 22. Applications for Pattern #19: Pattern 19. Pattern 19 has the rhythm down, down, up, up, down. So if you're playing, if you're playing with eighth notes and we're doing down strumming. We can play something like this. Down, down, up. So I'm using the same chords from the chord progression, just A except I'm just playing an A bass note with an E on the fourth string and I play it again. So we can pick that up and play it faster. Put a little distortion on. 23. Applications for Pattern #20: Pattern 20. Pattern 20 goes down, down, up, up, down, up. So we'll use the same sort of bluesy pattern. Down, down, up, up, down, up. Sticking with an A, we'll pick it up a little bit. So what I'm doing there is I'm keeping the eighth notes playing through with this muted sound. And then I'm just accenting the rhythms that we did before in the patterns. So it would be... so it's not as if we're tying that to 2+ beat to 3. I'm actually playing eighth notes through it, but I'm not accenting that beat 3. I kinda cheating to make it sound instead of just.... I'm making it... So again, instead of... I'm going... with the eighth notes, actually touched my fingers on there and I change the rhythm a little bit when I muted because that'll be similar to a different pattern. But again, these patterns are used as ideas for you. And once you get to understand the pattern, you can change it whatever way you want it. So have fun with it. 24. Applications for Pattern #21: So pattern in 21 will be very simple, like this. 25. Applications for Pattern #22: 22. 22 is sort of a variation of pattern 21. And the rhythm will be... So you can play. 26. Applications for Pattern #23: Pattern 23. Pattern 23 is down, down, up, up. Down. 27. Applications for Pattern #24: Pattern 24 adds a few more ups and it'll be down, down, up, up. Or like this... 28. Project & Thank You!: Thank you very much for taking my course. I really appreciate it. I look forward to getting feedback from you. And again, I have a few assignments. So I would like you to take a few rhythms and try and put them together. For example, you might take pattern eight and meld with pattern four. Or if you're in volume two, you might take patterns 16 and melded with pattern 10. So it doesn't really matter if you even want to take in both courses. If you want to take patterns from both, that would be great because we have 16 patterns to move forward. Thank you.