The Ultimate Strumming Guide for Guitar (Session 7): Techniques for Beginner to Advanced Players

1. Introduction to the Catalogue: 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 to eighth note rhythms. Future volumes will cover all patterns. Three parts to each volume. Part one - Beginner - videos to play along with and different rhythms notated. Part two, Intermediate - 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 Strumming Catalogue by Greg Tabone. You will be inspired!!! 2. Course Introduction: Happy that you've been joining me in this endeavor to go through and pretty well play every possible rhythm. One bar rhythm that you can strum to with quarter notes and eighth notes. If I added half notes and all of the other, I think it would probably be hundreds and hundreds of different rhythms, but these are the basic core one-bar rhythms. Every guitarist, or if you play ukulele or if you're drummer, if you're playing any instrument, then you're practicing rhythms. This catalog of rhythms will be helpful to you. If you're a music teacher, again, invaluable. I've taught this with ukulele students and guitar students, and students always come back and they can actually sight- read the music better. They understand where the rhythms are. They understand how to pick and strum. And as I've said before, when we're practicing these notes in strumming, try to keep with a downstrum on the strong beats 1234 and on the and beats strum up. And if you start to keep that philosophy as a guitar player. It helps you really play in time and be an excellent site reader. When I got to college and university, it was a breeze for me to sight read music because I had practiced so many rhythms and chords. So I hope this helps you vote. 3. Learning Pattern #49: Pattern 49, we'll use a D chord. And in pattern 49, we have a carryover from beat to beat one. And the rhythm will be up, down, up, up. So just using a D chord and slowly, it'll be 12341. So you notice my hand when I go up, down, up, up, it comes down and gets ready for that. Up on the B3 end up, down, up, up. So I keep that going. And that usually helps get you through and keep your rhythms in sync. So this tray, pattern 49 with the D chord just a little faster, 12341. 4. Learning Pattern #50: Pattern 50 is similar to pattern 49 except we add an extra up, so we have four ups with one down. And just taking it slowly with the D chord. We'll try it like this, 12341 down. Getting back to that reggae feel, let's try a little faster. 12341. 5. Learning Pattern #51: Pattern 51 will stay with the D chord and the rhythm will be up, down, down, up, up, down, down, up. Let's try that. 12341. And a little faster. 12341. 6. Learning Pattern #52: Patterns, 52, pattern and 52 is similar to 51 except we're adding an extra up in there. So it'll be up, down, down, up, up. Let's try it slowly. 12341. Let's try pattern 52. Little faster, 2341. It can be a pattern you've used before, and it may be one that you may be reminded of once you play the patterns that we've been going through and volume set. 7. Learning Pattern #53: Pattern of 53 and we'll maybe moved to a G chord now. So the pattern here is up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up. So all of the action and the rhythm is working in the middle of the measure and the first beat and the end of the bar, or being tied over with the sound. So let's try it slowly with a G chord is 2341. Very good. Let's try it a little faster. 12341. 8. Learning Pattern #54: Pattern 54, we'll do with the G chord. And again it's like pattern 53, but we're adding an extra up on the forehand beat. I'll try a little faster. 12341. Really liked that pattern. That's a cool pattern. 9. Learning Pattern #55: Pattern 55 is up, down, up. So lots of pausing in this one. We'll try it slowly. But the G chord, 2341, really strange one. But it is really effective at creating some tension and excitement in your piece. Try that one again. Little faster. 12341. 10. Learning Pattern #56: Pattern 56, lots of space between the notes. I'll try it slowly with a G chord, 2341. That's a little bit tricky, especially when you place Lord will try a little faster. 12341. 11. Part 2 Introduction: And now we'll be adding our chord progressions again using the open position chord progressions, open position or first position of the chords that we use down here on the neck. So we're not really going up and down the neck just to get you practicing rhythms and then applying them to a chord progression, which is what you would do when you're playing a guitar or piano, or ukulele or any other instrument that provides the rhythmic accompaniment. 12. Pattern #49 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 49, we have G, E minor, C, and D, and we're gonna be playing. This pattern will start off slowly and we'll have the core changes in between. So it'll be like this, 12341. And we'll pick it up a little faster. 12341. 13. Pattern #50 with Chord Progressions: 150. We have a G, E minor, C, and D7 chord, and we'll be playing that pattern. 50, up, down, up, up, up, up, down, up, up, up. Try it slowly. 2341. 14. Pattern #51 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 51 will use the chords a, D, E, and E7. And this is slight variation. It will be like this slowly 12341, which i, that one a little faster. 12341. 15. Pattern #52 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 52 will be playing with a minor, D minor E and E7, and is similar to pattern 51, except we have the extra beat in a place slowly equals like this, 2341. Let's try that one a little faster. Almost reminds me of a bit of a tango or something there. 12341. 16. Pattern #53 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 53. It will play the chord C, a minor, D minor G. And the pattern is up, down, up, down, up. So we have that sort of tie carried over on beat one and playing in the middle of the measure 2341. Play that one little faster. 12341. 17. Pattern #54 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 50 for the courts, or C, a minor, D minor G7. And the patterns up, down, up, down, up, up. Again. This is the popular pattern you've probably used before. 12341. Let's try a little faster. 12341. 18. Pattern #55 with Chord Progressions: Pattern 55, again, just three struggles up, down, up in the courts, or C, E minor, F, and G, 2341. That's a tricky one to do. 2341. 19. Pattern #56 with Chord Progressions: The last pattern is pattern 56, and the chords are D, E minor, G7. And just three structures, again, up, down, up, but they're in a different place than pattern 5523412341. That wraps up that chord progressions for volume seven. Looking forward to giving you some variations of that with the electric guitar in part three. 20. Applications for Pattern #49: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a rock style. 21. Applications for Pattern #50: Let's try that pattern in a reggae style. Let's try that pattern in a rock style. 22. Applications for Pattern #51: Let's try that pattern in Iraq style. Let's do a rock cell with distortion and a faster tempo. In this pattern. I'm also going to be the pattern. 23. Applications for Pattern #52: Let's try this with a soft rock or country style. 24. Applications for Pattern #53: Let's try this with a soft rock or country style. 25. Applications for Pattern #54: Let's try this with a soft rock or country style. 26. Applications for Pattern #55: Let's try this with a slow rock style. Let's try this with a fast rock style. 27. Applications for Pattern #56: Let's try that pattern in Iraq style. 28. Project Outline: For your project, I would like you to take one or two strumming patterns from any of the volumes. Or if you've just done one so far ticket from the one volume, take two patterns and try and play them together. So you might take a pattern from the beginning of the course and then take one from another course, put them together and see if you can come up with two strumming patterns that might be something like down, down, down, down, down. And see how 2-bar patterns work. And you'll find that if you play with a three-bar pattern or a four-bar pattern, it's a little harder to get the musicality of it because we don't tend to think of music in three or four bars when we're streaming, it's usually one bar or two bars, but you can experiment with it. There's no rules and music is if it sounds good and it plays easily for you and comfortably then it's the right thing to do. So experiment, you may come up with a new genre of music and Evernote. So once again, your project for this course would be to take one or two patterns and practice melding them together. And you can do whatever keywords you want. And please post your results and let me know how you've done. And if you want me to add anything to the course and future courses, whether I should get into 2-bar patterns or stick with the one bar or if there's other things that you'd like me to do. So thank you very much for taking the course. I hope you enjoy the project. 29. Thank You!!!: Thank you so much for taking the rhythm guitar chord catalog course, and very happy that you've went through this volume, and I certainly hope you try all the volumes. There are ten volumes in this catalog with 85 different patterns. So I've gone through and found all possible patterns with eighth notes and quarter notes in one measure. And I've put them all together for you to be able to play. This should be easy to use. And I hope you go back and use it as a resource for playing in the future. If there's a song you've been playing and you've been using the same core pattern all the time. This will give you a new perspective on it and I hope you will try some of these patterns. Some are really tricky to play, and once you get them, they're so simple and they add so much to the music. So thank you so much for taking the course, and I hope you take all ten volumes of my rhythm guitar strumming course.