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Adding Videos of Strum Patterns | A Guitar Teachers Lesson Notebook

Rob has had a fantastic brainwave. He’s going to add videos of him demonstrating strum patterns and link them to the chord charts on his site. Getting the strum pattern right is something that can be difficult to do, and impossible if you only read a Tab or chord chart, rather than actually listen to the song you’re learning.

It’s a brilliant idea and one which will certainly help and inspire me to learn new material

Talking about strumming, so many of us focus on getting left hand (or right hand if your a lefty) that we don’t spend enough time practising strumming technique. Getting the strumming accurate and flawless can be the difference between nailing a song and sounding like someone who’s learned a few chords and picked up a guitar for the first time. It’s that important.

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