The Ultimate Strumming Guide for Guitar (Session 6): Techniques for Beginner to Advanced Players

1. Promo Doodly Intro Video: 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? The Rhythm Guitar Strumming Catalogue by Greg Tabone can help. Eight patterns in each volume. Step-by-step guide with rhythmic notation. Beginner to advance level. Downloadable PDFs. Drumbeats to accompany your practice. Volume one contains eight 1-bar patterns, quarter and eighth note rhythms. Future volumes will cover all patterns. Three parts to each volume. Part one - Beginner - videos to play along with different rhythms notated. Part two - Intermediate - eight rhythms with eight chord progressions. Play along and PDFs are provided. Part three - Advanced - eight rhythms used in new ways. Ideas for alternate techniques used on the electric guitar. The Rhythm Guitar Catalog by Greg Tabone. You will be inspired!!! 2. Introduction to the Course: Welcome to volume six of my rhythm guitar strumming course. And I'm very excited to get up to volume six. Now, we've learned 40 patterns from the previous five volumes. And I bet you, as a guitar player, that you have never played every single one of these patterns. And as I've said in a few videos, it is really interesting when you go through and you analyze a few of the rhythms. And you may have things, you've strummed them before this way, but you probably haven't. There's a few really odd ones that are not popular ones that you might find really interesting. Instead of the same old chord strumming that you get inspired by some of these new rhythms that you maybe haven't tried before. So volume six, look forward to giving you patterns 41 to pattern 48. And there's lots in these patterns to learn from it. So here we go. 3. Learning Pattern #41: Pattern 41. So pattern 41 really only has three strums in it. And the rhythm is up, up, down. So we'll just do D chord just to get the feel for it. So the tempo is 1234 1. So the first beat is being carried over, as I've said in previous videos, it's carried over with a tie, but it also could be an eighth rest. And it's that up, up, down. So you're really emphasizing the fourth beat of the rhythm. 4. Learning Pattern #42: Pattern 42 is similar to pattern 41. And the rhythm here is up, up, down, up. Up, up, down, up. Really cool rhythm. I hope you enjoy it again. We'll just do it with a D chord and then we'll try slowly. 12341. I've said it before. That "up" rhythm reminds me a lot of reggae music where you're kind of emphasizing the upbeat on the guitar when you're strumming. So once again, Pattern 42 will be 12341. 5. Learning Pattern #43: Pattern 43 has a few more accents of an up beat, has one more up. And it will be really given that reggae feel. But the downbeat on before kinda brings it back into time. So using a D chord, it'll be 12341. So the fourth beat is tied over again on beat one. And we have three ups in a row on the end beats of 1+ to end and 3+. And then we have a down on the fourth. Once again, 12341. 6. Learning Pattern #44: Pattern 44 is again variation of pattern 43 and we're adding another up on beat four. And so we'll have four ups in this piece. And just playing with a D chord, we'll play it slowly. It will be 12341. So you're really feeling a bit weak beat on the guitar player in the band playing a rhythm like this... There'll be a bass player playing on the strong beat and the drummer with the kick. And we're going to really emphasize the upbeat. So once again, Pattern 44. 12341, down. 7. Learning Pattern #45: Pattern 45. So pattern 45 has two ups and downs and we'll do it with a G chord this time. And it will be like this, 12341. So again, we're emphasizing that fourth beat, which makes it really, really interesting to the listener because the fourth beat is being carried over to the beat one. Let's try it again. 4512341. I really liked that one. That's really cool. I think already to sign with that one. 8. Learning Pattern #46: 46. Again, a little bit of a variation. We're going to add the upbeat on four. And so pattern 46 will be 12341. So the four and the end are bringing us right back into the beat, but the forehand is tied over to the one. So it kinda makes it interesting again, pattern 46, the G chord, 2341. 9. Learning Pattern #47: 147, again has a tie over from four and to beat one. And there's gonna be three ups and downs, and this one will be 12341. So you feel that the end, one, end is the first part of the rhythm up. And then you have the two end and a three end. And that really adds really interesting rhythm tooth pattern 47. So once again, 2341. 10. Learning Pattern #48: And pattern 48. Again, we adding the up after the down from the previous pattern. So we have four ups and downs. So pattern 48 will be like this, 12341. So you can really feel it pulling you with all of the upbeats there. This is a really cool one as well. Try it again. 12341. 11. Part 2 Intro: Now we will move on to part two of a volume six. And you'll find attached a copy of the rhythms and chord progressions. And once again, for this course, I have kept the same chord progressions because I would like you to get really fluent at playing the open position chords. And at the same time learning some of the new rhythms. 12. Pattern #41 with Chord Progressions: We're going to use the pattern we did before. 12341. Very good. So you get that carrying over of the G chord in the first measure over really where the E minor would start in this second bar, but the E minor starting on the end of 1+ So let's try to pattern 41 again with the G chord starting 12341. 13. Pattern #42 with Chord Progressions: #42, with the chord progressions, G, E minor, C and D7. We will practice through the line and try it with the rhythm. Again. It's up, up, down, up. Let's try that. 12341. So it's really neat the way it's carrying over and pulling back-and-forth with the, with the chord progression. So let's try it a little bit faster. 12341. 14. Pattern #43 with Chord Progressions: In Pattern 4343 will be using for new courts a, D, E, and E7. And the pattern is up, up, up, down. Let's try that. 12341. You have that pulling back and forth. And it's really interesting to switch courts quickly through that. Let's try pattern 43 again. 2341. 15. Pattern #44 with Chord Progressions: Any pattern 4444 is using an a minor, D minor E, and D7 chord. And it is similar to pattern 43 except the four and has another up, 12341. So once again, lots of emphasis on the guitar player on the end beats. And let's try that one a little faster. 12341. 16. Pattern #45 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 4545 has two ups and downs and the chords are C, a minor, D minor in G. Let's try that. 112341. Good. Let's try that one a little faster. 12341. 17. Pattern #46 with Chord Progressions: And patent 46, we have C, a minor, D minor, G7, and it's a little variation of the one we just did, 12341. So that was really strange that you really want to play another beat on beat three, but just hold it back and it kind of creates good tension. Again for songwriting. Let's try 46 a little faster. 12341. 18. Pattern #47 with Chord Progressions: And pattern 47, pattern Forty-seven, has three ups and downs and the courts or C, a minor, E, F, and G. Let's try this slowly. 2341. So that one that you've probably played a little more, it seems to be a little bit more popular feeling in my mind when I played that one. Let's try that one again. At her 47 little faster, 12341. 19. Pattern #48 with Chord Progressions: The last pattern in volume six for the core progressions is D, E minor, G, and A7. And the patterns up, down, up, up, down, up 12341. Little faster. Now what seems to agree with pretty well, 12341. 20. Applications for Pattern #41: Welcome to part three of the course. We will be doing electric guitar playing with some different ideas and we'll start with the reggae style. Let's try that pattern in Iraq style. Notice how the accident difference between the reggae accent. 21. Applications for Pattern #42: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Notice how I am doing. The courts have really short staccato, upbeats, sending the rhythms. Let's try that pattern in Iraq style. So with this part I am playing. Let's do a rock cell with distortion and a faster tempo. Again, I would be playing eighth notes to read the rest. But accepting returns as matter. 22. Applications for Pattern #43: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. 23. Applications for Pattern #44: Let's try that pattern in Iraq style. 24. Applications for Pattern #45: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a rock style. 25. Applications for Pattern #46: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a rock style. For this riff, I'm actually playing a bass note on the guitar. Playing your pattern on the wrist at the end. So adding both the bass note. 26. Applications for Pattern #47: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a rock style. 27. Applications for Pattern #48: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a style. Hi there. 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 melded with pattern for. Or if you're in volume two, you might take patterns 16 and melded with pattern ten. 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 powders to move forward. Thank you.