I have been playing guitar for over 15 years now - self taught and musically inclined. This video is great! The bit about releasing pressure so you don’t actually have to take your fingers off the strings is a game changer. All these years, how did I not know that?! Great lesson, thanks so much!
I'm a 77 year old, wanna be rock star!😂and found your tutorial to be the best I've seen so far on CZcams. I'm useless with a plectrum and found your method to be the best yet. Thank you so much Matt, and all the best with your channel.👍
YOU'RE MY ROCK STAR FOR KEEPN' ON!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸. USE ELECTRIC GUITAR FIND THE PEOPLE LIKE U THAT HAVE FIGHT !!! LEFT IN THEM..THANK U FOR INSPIRING ME!!!!🎸🎸🎸🙋👍
Hi, I am useless with a plectrum as well. I can only use my fingers and have done since I started when I was sixteen. I know I'm am terrible with strumming. Great video Thanks
I found this video by accident and it really crystallised something going on in my head in that when I strum I really have no idea what I’m doing and unless I really know the song it can easily sound nothing like what it is supposed to sound like. I especially don’t know when to change cord within whatever strumming pattern I am playing. This video is inspiring and gives me an idea of what to address - so thanks and I will look up more of your videos.
CZcams send your video to me. Boy, I have never watch a 20-minutes video entirely before this. You are a great and resourceful teacher and I really appreciate the sharing of your knowledge. ♥From Canada.
Been playing for many many years ( in my own space). I will never put down my original strumming style. Don't get me wrong, I have tried learning standard strumming patterns and never really got anywhere. At 2:16 of your video I instantly knew that this was the one . Thanks for taking your precious time, FREELY, to enlighten others. Your style of teaching suits my style of acquiring knowledge. Thanks again and keep rocking!!
Been playing a strat (badly) for a while and just picked up a Yamaha semi-acoustic to practice and improve my strumming - thanks so much for creating and sharing this - great explanations, but also great references to songs we all know, each with different things to learn from. Thank you :-)
Hi I'm 55 just started to learn acoustic guitar and got myself a piano/ keyboard never played or got any music knowledge just fancied trying it love your video tutorial 5***** rating from Marcus from England UK 🇬🇧
Thank you very much for your time and help on furthering peoples journey on learning guitar,i really appreciate your concern,you have added value to my learning experience,thank you!
Really excellent strumming lesson. Also your note about the beat on the down strum makes a ton of sense and not many teachers mention that, or very often at least. You got a new subscriber!
Thank you very much!!! I've been playing guitar for years (I'm already 70) and I always struggle with the rhythm. You have a great ability to simplify and clarify certain concepts. I understand everything you explain and I understood it before watching your video but you explain it in a way that makes me internalize it better. Thank you so much!!! Any ideas on how to internalise the rhythm better?
Thank you! I would suggest start counting or verbalising the best of any music you listen to anywhere. A really powerful thing is to physically move some part of your body in any way at all to mark or signify that beat. After a while it will become ingrained in you.
@@OneChartguitarlessons Thank you very much for your reply. I will follow your instructions with enthusiasm and hope to succeed. I always follow the rhythm with my foot, the pulse is not a problem and I can feel well where I am in the measure if I count 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. But it is very difficult for me to count and play at the same time, especially if the rhythm is complicated or if I try to play a melody, and much more difficult if I try to improvise, it is in these cases that I get lost.
I've never learned so much about guitar in such a short amount of time. This is an awesome lesson, thank you for sharing this. You also have a very good teaching method, you are really good at teaching. Thanks, subscribed and liked. Well spent 20 minutes!
Thanks, have been playing the harp for years by feel. To accompany others started learning strum & pick theory with a uke - struggling but you're video helps a lot.
This was very helpful, I'm pretty darn new at picking on my guitar. I've taught myself some notes and chords. But the strumming was just not sounding good. Thank you
Your guitar sounds so pleasant and i love how theres a design look inside instead of plain wood ,unfinished look.. nice work. I will have to watch it 100x . Do you have a training videos on simple christian songs like, Here i am to worship? Showing the chord diagrams in upper corner? Thank You!!!!!
I have zero experience with christian songs, but I believe if you are learning the chords and you can find the songs online somewhere with the chords, you will be able to play them easily. Good luck! I'm always available to break down specific songs for you if you wanted to book a zoom lesson anytime. Just send me a message and we can sort something out.
Mate I have been teaching myself to play guitar off you tube since leaving my job 5 1/2 years ago as a 59 year old total novice. I was always unco at strumming but just concentrated on trying to make clean chord sounds after learning what they were and how to make them so everything didn't always sound terrible. I said to myself that strumming will come eventually just do what you can and it will develop over time which it has. But those down up videos would drive me nuts. How are you supposed to remember all those strokes for every song? This is the first time I've been able to get something useful in such a short time after years of surfing and be able to remember and apply it practically. I always struggled with that PF wall strum😮. But the muted strum, long follow through and open string strum change ups, along with the 4, 8 and 16 timing and hand position were brilliant for my level 😮❤. It just all made sense for me right now and will help advance my progress going forward. Gidday mate from a grateful Kiwi across the ditch 😊! Chur.
Thanks for such a chatty comment, bro! Love to hear that this helped you. I lived in Island Bay for 5 years and I still feel like Aotearoa is my second home. Cheers!
Ah that’s awesome to hear, Kaley! Thank you so much for letting me know. That was the whole intention of the lesson so I’m so glad it worked for you! Welcome to the world of natural rhythm! 😁
Great and comprehensive tutorial. Thank you ! I’m only missing one thing: can you also explain how and with which fingers you strum the strings during both the up- and downstrokes ? I also noticed you you rest your thumb on the 6th string a lot of times when executing a downstroke.
You are spot on! Exactly right. I will do a follow up video and explain those things in the next couple of weeks! Thanks for the feedback and the questions, it’s much appreciated.
Ah! Good question! I am not a flamenco expert so I really couldn’t say. It’s a totally different technique that involves much more individual finger work.
It's really just a matter of tempo. If it's too fast to fit the 16ths in there, call it 8ths. there's no real rule there. The idea is to make it easier and more natural for you. It you make it 8ths and you feel there are some strums in the rhythm that you're missing, that you hear "between" the 8th notes, then it's probably 16ths. I often find that listening for the snare drum helps, as there is usually 2 snare drum beats in each bar - does that make sense?
@@OneChartguitarlessons Thank you for taking the time out to respond. I watched your video a few times before I asked my question just in case I was missing something. This piece of advice was what I needed because I found myself speeding my strumming up so I could try and sing along. Didn't know if I was breaking the rules or performing bad practice. "Reggae rock" has more intricacies then one might think, so that's what led me here. Couldn't sing along to what I was playing for the life of me. Thank you so much for helping me on this journey. Much success to you!!!!
Thanks. This is very helpful. I appreciate the examples; I feel inspired! I can usually get the strum pattern, but when I add singing---I can stay in my lane with any semi-complicated strum pattern. Any advice?
Practise the strumming until you don’t have to think about it. It’s really the best way to get your singing in order. You need to be able to focus on your singing without thinking about what your hands are doing.
Yeah that is my weak point but going to pay a little more attention I'm always trying to stop like you say keep it going gotcha appreciate it brother or as y'all say mate
lol, im a lead guitarist and strumming and rhythm guitar is not my strong point,, this is a good tutorial , I have saved it for future reference,, work on your weak points,,
How you doing? I've spent years wondering why my up strum doesn't sound like my down strum especially on an electric because the pick catches a string on the up and doesn't sound good unless you're going for that sound. I've tried to switch my pick around to the rounded edge instead of a tip. I'm sure there are many guitar teachers that would disagree with you but it makes sense to me, thanks 🙏
I have been playing guitar for over 15 years now - self taught and musically inclined. This video is great! The bit about releasing pressure so you don’t actually have to take your fingers off the strings is a game changer. All these years, how did I not know that?! Great lesson, thanks so much!
@twinklemarsh thanks a lot! Glad it helped. Cheers.
I'm a 77 year old, wanna be rock star!😂and found your tutorial to be the best I've seen so far on CZcams. I'm useless with a plectrum and found your method to be the best yet. Thank you so much Matt, and all the best with your channel.👍
Thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it.
YOU'RE MY ROCK STAR FOR KEEPN' ON!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸. USE ELECTRIC GUITAR FIND THE PEOPLE LIKE U THAT HAVE FIGHT !!! LEFT IN THEM..THANK U FOR INSPIRING ME!!!!🎸🎸🎸🙋👍
Hi, I am useless with a plectrum as well. I can only use my fingers and have done since I started when I was sixteen. I know I'm am terrible with strumming. Great video Thanks
Wow best strumming lesson I ever had !
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
I found this video by accident and it really crystallised something going on in my head in that when I strum I really have no idea what I’m doing and unless I really know the song it can easily sound nothing like what it is supposed to sound like. I especially don’t know when to change cord within whatever strumming pattern I am playing. This video is inspiring and gives me an idea of what to address - so thanks and I will look up more of your videos.
Thank you so much! That's great to hear.
This is the BEST strumming lesson I ever came across on CZcams. Thank you SO SO much for making and uploading this tutorial!!
That’s one of the best comments I’ve received! Thank YOU so much, and I’m glad it helped.
The best explanation I've ever heard ....and such a smooth way to explain it ...thx
Thank you so much!😊
Thanks for not babbling on…and..on.
Like So many Others instructional videos do.
Your is very valuable and straight to the point
Thank You!!
Cheers!
Agree... I understand some people want to explain....but they talk a lot , and let us work a little....
@@danharwell9718 yes👍
True iv rewatched it maybe 5 times now in a row
I am a beginning/intermediate mandolin player, and this has been so helpful! Thanks very, very much.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful, Margaret.
CZcams send your video to me. Boy, I have never watch a 20-minutes video entirely before this. You are a great and resourceful teacher and I really appreciate the sharing of your knowledge. ♥From Canada.
Thank you Peter!
Agree & my late hubby also loved jack Johnson like this bro & he was an incredible guitarist since I met him at 15 he 18 , his talents are missed
Lot's of honest and correct information. For it all to be true, it takes Lots of practice time. And for some people more time than others.
Yes, a massive amount of advice in a deceptively compact form.
Thanks guys!
@@OneChartguitarlessons- awesome video - thanks - p.s : are u from South Africa 🇿🇦?
@applegreen4118 no, Australia!
I wave my hand naturally, I think it's wrong. Now I see that it is correct, and I almost never had a problem with the rhythm.
Super, Thanks!
Perfect!
Great explanation as to how the strumming pattern relates to 4th, 8th, 16th notes on or off the beat!👍👏❤
Glad you liked it!
Been playing for many many years ( in my own space). I will never put down my original strumming style.
Don't get me wrong, I have tried learning standard strumming patterns and never really got anywhere.
At 2:16 of your video I instantly knew that this was the one .
Thanks for taking your precious time, FREELY, to enlighten others.
Your style of teaching suits my style of acquiring knowledge.
Thanks again and keep rocking!!
Thanks so much mate for such a great comment, I really appreciate it and I'm glad to have helped. (You made me go back and look at 2:16 on the video!)
I've played rhythm for a long time and appreciate you showing the counts on the staff along with your explanation. That's helpful. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
Hi . Thanks ever so much, 60yr intermediate here,im really enjoying your lesson.. you make it look so easy and exciting
Thanks so much, glad you're aboard and I'm happy to be helping!
Guitar Gold, thank you very much. Boy I gotta get to work on this, you sound amazing thank you
Love your tutorial. I play guitar as a hobby but I tend to lose rythm in the middle of a song. This will help me play better.
Wow..Your teaching is so easy to understand 😊.
Going to use it .
Cheers Onechart team 👍
Thank you! 😃
Been playing a strat (badly) for a while and just picked up a Yamaha semi-acoustic to practice and improve my strumming - thanks so much for creating and sharing this - great explanations, but also great references to songs we all know, each with different things to learn from. Thank you :-)
Glad to help!
Nice!! Great selection of example music and easy to follow along.
Hi I'm 55 just started to learn acoustic guitar and got myself a piano/ keyboard never played or got any music knowledge just fancied trying it love your video tutorial 5***** rating from Marcus from England UK 🇬🇧
Thanks Marcus!
Thank you very much for your time and help on furthering peoples journey on learning guitar,i really appreciate your concern,you have added value to my learning experience,thank you!
No worries!
This is the best lesson ever. I played for almost hunderd year Guitar. 🎉
🤣🙃👍🙌
@@hanuyttenhove2077 yeppers up.up.up😂.down.down.up.. up. up. up. Down! Lol yep have fun for goodness sake
Really excellent strumming lesson. Also your note about the beat on the down strum makes a ton of sense and not many teachers mention that, or very often at least. You got a new subscriber!
Thank you!
Thanks so much, Very Clear, informative, and actual and immediate applications with the great songs examples. Fantastic
Awesome. I could understand how to play notes I could not play.👍
Thanks for posting. Great tutorial.
WELL DONE M8... JUST FOUND Ya... PLEASE KEEPEM COMMIN... WE ARE ALL WITH YOU...
Cheers for that mate.
Just got my first guitar and I feel like this video will get me into good habits 🥰😍 thank you!!
A friend sent a link to this tutorial. It's made a massive difference to my strumming. Thank you
Glad it helped!
Thank you very much!!! I've been playing guitar for years (I'm already 70) and I always struggle with the rhythm. You have a great ability to simplify and clarify certain concepts. I understand everything you explain and I understood it before watching your video but you explain it in a way that makes me internalize it better.
Thank you so much!!! Any ideas on how to internalise the rhythm better?
Thank you! I would suggest start counting or verbalising the best of any music you listen to anywhere. A really powerful thing is to physically move some part of your body in any way at all to mark or signify that beat. After a while it will become ingrained in you.
@@OneChartguitarlessons Thank you very much for your reply. I will follow your instructions with enthusiasm and hope to succeed. I always follow the rhythm with my foot, the pulse is not a problem and I can feel well where I am in the measure if I count 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
But it is very difficult for me to count and play at the same time, especially if the rhythm is complicated or if I try to play a melody, and much more difficult if I try to improvise, it is in these cases that I get lost.
Great Video ❤
Thank you!
I've never learned so much about guitar in such a short amount of time. This is an awesome lesson, thank you for sharing this. You also have a very good teaching method, you are really good at teaching. Thanks, subscribed and liked. Well spent 20 minutes!
wow! this makes so much sense.
Found your tutorial really helpful to feel natural at guitar. Super great.🤗
Awesome! Thank you!
Makes sense. Working on it today. Thank you !
Brilliant lesson. 👍
Thanks, have been playing the harp for years by feel. To accompany others started learning strum & pick theory with a uke - struggling but you're video helps a lot.
Glad to help!
Thank you, it now makes much more sense, I’m in awe! Your a great teacher, the best 😊
I've got into guitar quite late in life , I think this does look helpful. Thanks for making the video .
Thankful for this lesson; will need to devote time to your strumming concept. Thanks and kudos,
This was very helpful, I'm pretty darn new at picking on my guitar. I've taught myself some notes and chords. But the strumming was just not sounding good. Thank you
This is so helpful!
Many, many thanks!
Super insightful and helpful. This was brilliant for me!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is by far the most humbly and professionally well presented strumming video❤🎉🎉
Thank you so much!
Your guitar sounds so pleasant and i love how theres a design look inside instead of plain wood ,unfinished look.. nice work. I will have to watch it 100x . Do you have a training videos on simple christian songs like, Here i am to worship? Showing the chord diagrams in upper corner? Thank You!!!!!
I have zero experience with christian songs, but I believe if you are learning the chords and you can find the songs online somewhere with the chords, you will be able to play them easily. Good luck!
I'm always available to break down specific songs for you if you wanted to book a zoom lesson anytime. Just send me a message and we can sort something out.
Great lesson! Super helpful, thank you!
Really helpful. Thank-you!!
Thank you so much for that practical lesson, I find it very helpful and I will get to it.
Just starting to learn at 49, found this video really insightful, thanks!
Good to hear that, thanks mate.
Cool lesson!!!
Thank you I've been wanting to play Guitar for so long, I really feel better now. 😊
That's great to hear! Thank you and good luck!
Thank you for this lesson.
Welcome!
Thank you, sir, so very much for this very important guitar lesson of strumming pattern! Greetings from Sweden! Stay richly blessed!
You're welcome! And thank you!
Thank you ❤
Hi I'm so happy for your lesson
Thank you Morris.
Mate I have been teaching myself to play guitar off you tube since leaving my job 5 1/2 years ago as a 59 year old total novice. I was always unco at strumming but just concentrated on trying to make clean chord sounds after learning what they were and how to make them so everything didn't always sound terrible. I said to myself that strumming will come eventually just do what you can and it will develop over time which it has. But those down up videos would drive me nuts. How are you supposed to remember all those strokes for every song? This is the first time I've been able to get something useful in such a short time after years of surfing and be able to remember and apply it practically. I always struggled with that PF wall strum😮. But the muted strum, long follow through and open string strum change ups, along with the 4, 8 and 16 timing and hand position were brilliant for my level 😮❤. It just all made sense for me right now and will help advance my progress going forward. Gidday mate from a grateful Kiwi across the ditch 😊! Chur.
Thanks for such a chatty comment, bro! Love to hear that this helped you. I lived in Island Bay for 5 years and I still feel like Aotearoa is my second home. Cheers!
Great lessons Mate, could you pls make some more Rytham tutorials as series ?thanks in advance
Will do!
Thanks, the universal passing chord (upstroke 4) played in many songs as mentioned is actually G6.
Thank you sir 🎉
Nice! Very helpful❤
Very helpful! Thank you so much! Watched a few times and already using my ear more than thinking about downs & ups 😊
Ah that’s awesome to hear, Kaley! Thank you so much for letting me know. That was the whole intention of the lesson so I’m so glad it worked for you! Welcome to the world of natural rhythm! 😁
Awesome lesson. Just what I need to get my rhythm & strumming sorted!!! Thank you!!!!’
Very welcome!
Great tutorial. More please.
It all makes perfect sense but hard to translate from brain to fingers! I will keep at it. Thanks so much for the great lesson!
You're very welcome!
Hello, this lesson was great, loved it. Getting back to basics
Great to hear!
Thanks a ton Matt. Lesson helped!
Glad to hear it!
Been trying to learn how to do the squeeze.
It got me.
Many thanks.
I subscribed
Thanks! And welcome aboard...
Wonderful 👍
Many Thanks 🙏 Dude!
Awesome instructions!
very nice to the point love from india...
Thank you !
Very helpful! Thank you so much, good Sir!! 🙏🙏😁😎🤟
Brilliant 🎉 Thanks for sharing
Great lesson thanks😊Colin 🇬🇧
Great strumming lesson, thanks 🎼🇵🇷
My pleasure!
nice work, shows expertise by simplicity
Glad you think so!
merci
Amazing lesson! Thank you so much!
Glad you liked it!
Great and comprehensive tutorial. Thank you !
I’m only missing one thing: can you also explain how and with which fingers you strum the strings during both the up- and downstrokes ?
I also noticed you you rest your thumb on the 6th string a lot of times when executing a downstroke.
You are spot on! Exactly right. I will do a follow up video and explain those things in the next couple of weeks! Thanks for the feedback and the questions, it’s much appreciated.
Bonjour! La musique est international , j 'ai bien compris vos explications .Merci
Amazing lesson!!
Excellent my boy! William from Scotland.
Thanks!
Awesome video, very helpful. Thank you !
Thank you, thank you .
Welcome!
Will this also apply to flamenco as well, by the way loved your teaching, don’t stop the music and teaching us beginners.🎉🎉🎉
Ah! Good question! I am not a flamenco expert so I really couldn’t say. It’s a totally different technique that involves much more individual finger work.
Very koooool..
This is great, thanks!
You're welcome!
Really helpful. Thanks!
Very Good ! Thanks!
This is gold! Thanks.
You're welcome!
This video is a complete game changer!! Thank you!! Any advice on how to easily identify whether a song is 8th notes or 16th notes? Appreciate you🤙
It's really just a matter of tempo. If it's too fast to fit the 16ths in there, call it 8ths. there's no real rule there. The idea is to make it easier and more natural for you. It you make it 8ths and you feel there are some strums in the rhythm that you're missing, that you hear "between" the 8th notes, then it's probably 16ths. I often find that listening for the snare drum helps, as there is usually 2 snare drum beats in each bar - does that make sense?
@@OneChartguitarlessons Thank you for taking the time out to respond. I watched your video a few times before I asked my question just in case I was missing something. This piece of advice was what I needed because I found myself speeding my strumming up so I could try and sing along. Didn't know if I was breaking the rules or performing bad practice. "Reggae rock" has more intricacies then one might think, so that's what led me here. Couldn't sing along to what I was playing for the life of me. Thank you so much for helping me on this journey. Much success to you!!!!
Not a problem Alex, you’re welcome. You can always ask me anything, I’m here to help! Cheers.
Thanks. This is very helpful. I appreciate the examples; I feel inspired! I can usually get the strum pattern, but when I add singing---I can stay in my lane with any semi-complicated strum pattern. Any advice?
Practise the strumming until you don’t have to think about it. It’s really the best way to get your singing in order. You need to be able to focus on your singing without thinking about what your hands are doing.
Your Guitar sound very beautiful!
Thanks a lot!
@@OneChartguitarlessons what is it please? Thx for sharing.
It’s a Cole Clark Angel. Made in Australia.
@@OneChartguitarlessons it is amazing. You are also. Carry on. Inspiring. TY
I love this video! I thank you
You’re welcome!
Yeah that is my weak point but going to pay a little more attention I'm always trying to stop like you say keep it going gotcha appreciate it brother or as y'all say mate
That’s it mate, keep that hand moving! Let it keep you in time, not your brain!
That’s it mate, keep that hand moving! Let it keep you in time, not your brain!
Thank you. It was helpful. I'm a noob. 😊
Glad it helped!
lol, im a lead guitarist and strumming and rhythm guitar is not my strong point,, this is a good tutorial , I have saved it for future reference,, work on your weak points,,
@@hugokappes4077 Dude I've played drums for 55 years, guitar for 50..I can help in 2 days
A-l-o-h-a Alohoho
Agree about that 😁😁😁😁😁
@@konarainwhat dos this mean ?
Iv been playing for over 20 years & he taught me so much
@@cheanarchist2381 I'm sorry I don't know which comment it is..Let me figure it out.. Aloha Anachial one!
How you doing? I've spent years wondering why my up strum doesn't sound like my down strum especially on an electric because the pick catches a string on the up and doesn't sound good unless you're going for that sound. I've tried to switch my pick around to the rounded edge instead of a tip. I'm sure there are many guitar teachers that would disagree with you but it makes sense to me, thanks 🙏
Glad to hear that Douglas!
0:54 I think you’re forgetting Patrick “Dalton” Swayze in Roadhouse.
Dammit. Now I’m gonna have to go watch that movie again.
@@OneChartguitarlessonsonce a decade viewing is worth it. I promise you.
Thanks!
Thank you!