One thing I learnt from playing the guitar is that the moment you get frustrated, just stop. Do yourself a favour and take a break. It's hard to stop because once you got the fever it's hard to quit playing but taking breaks helps sooo much for your progress. I just started playing again after a 6 month break and I play so much better than before. This break really helped a lot
Thanks for the lesson Sean. Always amazes me that so many people act like you should only be teaching them what they do not already know. It is not your private lesson folks, which you are obviously too cheap to pay for. These lessons are free and for a general audience. Great job Sean.
Thank you Sean. After 50 years I had given up ever being able to strum in time. But tonight I finally got it right due to this video! Turns out my sense of timing was not the issue, it was bad strumming mechanics all along. Can't thank you enough.
This breaks the technique down really well. You always go the extra mile to explain extensions off of the same skill that can really advance a practice. Even applying the basics of where and when to use it. This is why you're the best guitar teacher on UA-cam. Sprinkle in intentional over confidence and hilarity and you've got the best thing to happen to the internet and guitar in a long time
I find this is a really good fundamental lesson. I'm at the part of my 'guitar journey' where I'm noticing how other instructors teach inefficient technique and sloppy notation with things like strumming so as to confuse the watcher in order to draw them into one of their programs or website. Great job, Sean!
Really thankful for great teachers on UA-cam like you You ever teach any scales or theory. Just from learning so little I've seen my guitar playing get so much better. It's amazing what so little can do
Great lesson Sean. I've been strumming ALL of the strings for WAAAYYY too long. Great lesson concepts in a simple to use format. Excellent pace for this lesson as well. Not too rushed...very effective. Thanks
Sean, I haven’t seen a ton of your videos *yet * but you have an enjoyable Steve Martin quality that makes me imagine you had an arrow through your head.
I’m 72 years old and still learning. As a retired middle school teacher, I appreciate the way Sean relates to us, his students. Serious, but with a mix of humor, and always giving off a positive vibe.
I have been watching strumming videos for a long time and I couldn't play the way it should be.. but today it sounded just fine.. only because of you.. :) I'm glad I found your channel !!!!
Found your channel today. I've been watching some guitar lessons to keep myself sane during this awful quarantine. Fell in love with the way you explain things! Thank you so much. Big hugs from Brazil.
I'm so grateful I found your channel. I'm binge watching your videos and trying to add all that cool stuff to my playing. I feel your videos are what's going to take me to the next level. Thanks a lot Sean! Also, I love that you explain things at a fast pace. It's packed info, great for impatient people like me :)
Hey Sean, Third time around the bouy with this lesson: ... such a fundamental topic, and you teach it in a thoughtful, considered, and entertaining way. Many thanks .. 😊
Great lesson. Thanks so much. Really enjoyed it and I feel my strumming has improved already but I will keep working on it. I have just discovered you on YT Sean and I love your straightforward, no waffle, clearly explained approach. Off to explore your channel now. A new sub here. Many thanks from England.😁😁
Agreed! Can’t believe how difficult it is to strum well, to keep the tone clean and controlled. My strumming is way too noisy. I learnt some bad mechanics, and now changing how I strum. It’s getting better. ( 2 years into learning guitar. Loving it, but suddenly realised that I need to give my strumming some urgent attention….)
Really love your videos and how they are pitched at the 'hey, I didn't learn guitar from classical classes" people. Although I'm already past this stage, I can see how useful this would have been when I was learning -- and how accssible you're making it (oh you're not using a pick? Sure! Oh, you use your thumb to strum? Okay!) Amazing.
This is a great lesson. I've played rhythm and bass in bands since I was 13. That was 1962. Over the years I never learned to count but u got better and better at muting, playing only parts of the full chord, etc. I couldn't have done a better lesson on this. But I love to have a rhythm playoff against you 😎.
Wow dude. You are awesome. I am a beginner and love to play acoustic guitar. But i can not control my fingers and plectrum. I loose my control over it and can even remember which string i am hitting. Make videos for beginners please
Thanks Bud! I'm a multi-instrumentalist that just picked up guitar 2 yrs ago...progressing rapidly. I play Irish bodhran drum. The guitars strumming technique shares many similarities to the "tipper" hand of the drum. Holding the tipper, holding the pick..the downbeats, the upbeats...much like paradiddles, etc. So it transfered in a matter of minutes...not months! Now it's time to get muting, and muscle memory...I've got my major and minor chords down- and changing at 80-100 BPM. Thanks SO MUCH! Can you do a video on anchor fingers, which chords are generally seen in pairs (ie- C to G, D to E, etc). TY!! :)
Thank you for your videos, sir!😊 I may have said it in a different comment section. But, I am learning on my own how to play the guitar and sometimes the piano! Lol, I love writing songs, and even just the couple of videos I have seen, are helpful. 😊
I found this really interesting and it breaks it down t make us sound better you can also try strumming at different points on the strings, towards the bridge is a brighter sharper sound, and towards the neck is duller and blends in...
You and Andres should collab and do a in-depth strumming video. Would love to hear you two discuss it because of the pick vs. finger style differences.
Great lesson, Sean. (Not that your other lessons aren't really well done, just that this delve into advanced beginner/intermediate level technique is exactly the level where my practice resides.) So, next related issue: I'm having a lot of difficulty executing tremolo picking when trying to do that passage with the slides on the three highest strings in the song Rumble. Any help very much appreciated! Thanks, Sean.
Preach! When you learn to feel what your playing and you put in basic fundamental practice it just starts showing up and your like well hell lookie here!
This is a really good lesson. My strumming is crap because I only work on it when no one else is home, which is rare. Even an unplugged Telecaster is too loud for my family. How do your students practice it without driving their families crazy?
It took me years of playing to realize the importance of right hand positioning. I can tell if someone is any good or not by watching them without even hearing them. Good players never move their picking/strumming hand very far away from position. You will never play well if your hand is all over the place and losing track of where the strings are. I used to pull my hand completely away from the guitar during a pause when I was not picking or strumming, so I had to find the strings all over again for the next strum! That's why videoing is so important. To see these kind of things.
Glad you keep circling back to important fundamentals like strumming.
Happy to help Andrew!
When my frustration goes through the roof, I can watch one of your videos and I remember why I want to play guitar. Thanks Sean!!
Glad to hear it!! I'll keep em coming!
@RickyB Goode You hit the nail on the head Rick.
One thing I learnt from playing the guitar is that the moment you get frustrated, just stop. Do yourself a favour and take a break. It's hard to stop because once you got the fever it's hard to quit playing but taking breaks helps sooo much for your progress. I just started playing again after a 6 month break and I play so much better than before. This break really helped a lot
Thanks for the lesson Sean. Always amazes me that so many people act like you should only be teaching them what they do not already know. It is not your private lesson folks, which you are obviously too cheap to pay for. These lessons are free and for a general audience. Great job Sean.
Thanks so much!
@Douglas Lay No Douglas, I’m not taking private lessons but I do pick up information any way I can. This guy is good.
Thank you Sean. After 50 years I had given up ever being able to strum in time. But tonight I finally got it right due to this video! Turns out my sense of timing was not the issue, it was bad strumming mechanics all along. Can't thank you enough.
So cool to hear! Happy to help!
I feel exactly the same way!
This breaks the technique down really well. You always go the extra mile to explain extensions off of the same skill that can really advance a practice. Even applying the basics of where and when to use it.
This is why you're the best guitar teacher on UA-cam. Sprinkle in intentional over confidence and hilarity and you've got the best thing to happen to the internet and guitar in a long time
Thanks so much for saying so!
That was a good lesson on strumming . To the point and constructive from beginning to the end . Thanks Brent
If I drank I would buy you a beer
Now that I have been playing guitar for awhile I realize how valuable this lesson. Thanks Sean.
Friend : How did your strumming get better instantly ?
Me : Two words : Sean Daniel
Happy to help!
OH!! 'San-San' You Are a Card ! "Queen of Spades, right?'
I find this is a really good fundamental lesson. I'm at the part of my 'guitar journey' where I'm noticing how other instructors teach inefficient technique and sloppy notation with things like strumming so as to confuse the watcher in order to draw them into one of their programs or website. Great job, Sean!
Thanks so much!
Really thankful for great teachers on UA-cam like you
You ever teach any scales or theory.
Just from learning so little I've seen my guitar playing get so much better. It's amazing what so little can do
Great lesson Sean. I've been strumming ALL of the strings for WAAAYYY too long. Great lesson concepts in a simple to use format. Excellent pace for this lesson as well. Not too rushed...very effective. Thanks
Thanks for really breaking it down. Many dont. But those little details you share are game changers for a student like me.
This is the best strumming video I have seen. Thank you. Now to watch it 100x and see if my brain and right hand will work together.
Keep rocking Gabriel!
Sean, I haven’t seen a ton of your videos *yet * but you have an enjoyable Steve Martin quality that makes me imagine you had an arrow through your head.
From the beyond, I feel the vibes moving slowly but with force and impact. Receive loud and clear,
Crystal clear explanation and an even more understandable demonstration 👍👏
Great lesson, Sean !! I need all the help that I can get in the strumming department, and your lesson helps greatly! Thank you so much for sharing !
Man pewdiepies American accent has gotten really good
Jk awesome lesson!
You mean to tell me that PewDiePie isn't American? Lolll
NightmareGoddessXV Swedish lives in England
I can't unhear it now
Cannot unhear, thank you for this
Yeah
I really like this man.
Everything is to the point and simple.
A very good teacher.
Instructions not clear... guitar now perfectly balanced on my head
I'll try and do better next time.
Must be a Huge Improvement...to your 'playing' And likely 'your unwashed "Look"' ?
@@q4991 maybe catch the virus and dont recover 👌🏻 better for everyone
instructions unclear, my guitar shrunk and now its a ukulele
Must have been that klonzapine. I understood it perfectly. Lol lol lol.
I’m 72 years old and still learning. As a retired middle school teacher, I appreciate the way Sean relates to us, his students. Serious, but with a mix of humor, and always giving off a positive vibe.
Best opening line ever!
Thanks for the palm mute demo, I finally understand how it works!
This was the most helpful lesson I’ve ever watched. Thank you so much
No prob!
That was simple yet invaluable. Thank you 😊
happy to help!
I have been watching strumming videos for a long time and I couldn't play the way it should be.. but today it sounded just fine.. only because of you.. :)
I'm glad I found your channel !!!!
Came across your videos a while ago...you are really a great instructor. Really helps me. Thank you.
Found your channel today. I've been watching some guitar lessons to keep myself sane during this awful quarantine. Fell in love with the way you explain things! Thank you so much. Big hugs from Brazil.
I'm so grateful I found your channel. I'm binge watching your videos and trying to add all that cool stuff to my playing. I feel your videos are what's going to take me to the next level. Thanks a lot Sean! Also, I love that you explain things at a fast pace. It's packed info, great for impatient people like me :)
Thanks so much for saying so! I'll keep the vids coming!
Hey Sean,
Third time around the bouy with this lesson: ... such a fundamental topic, and you teach it in a thoughtful, considered, and entertaining way.
Many thanks .. 😊
Great guitar for the price! Cant beat it! One of the best guitar purchases i've made.
The whole wrist control thing is enlightening for me as a beginner guitarist thanks so much!
Good lesson. I get a little sloppy at times. This is a great exercise for tightening up strumming and muting techniques.
Happy to help!
Great lesson. Thanks so much. Really enjoyed it and I feel my strumming has improved already but I will keep working on it. I have just discovered you on YT Sean and I love your straightforward, no waffle, clearly explained approach. Off to explore your channel now. A new sub here. Many thanks from England.😁😁
Welcome to the party!
Such an awesome video. This 11 minute video will forever change how I play guitar. Thank you so much.
The man speaks sense and makes the point clear and simple👍
Your videos are full of good info and not boring. Love it man thanks!!
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the help Mr. Sean!
Sean, your sense of humor and your teaching ability are both top notch!
That was an outstanding lesson!
Thank you Sean. Appreciated this lesson! Love your channel for useful content delivered in a fun and entertaining way. :-)
Thanks for reaching out! Always happy to help!
Thanks Sean, love the way you teach. Dee Dee from London
Thank you, have been looking for a tip/lesson exactly like this, very helpful.
I'm perfect with this theoretically. I find really difficulty in strumming!
I'll edit the comment after I am comfortable with strumming❤
Agreed! Can’t believe how difficult it is to strum well, to keep the tone clean and controlled. My strumming is way too noisy. I learnt some bad mechanics, and now changing how I strum. It’s getting better. ( 2 years into learning guitar. Loving it, but suddenly realised that I need to give my strumming some urgent attention….)
Thanks pwediepie !!!!
I'll forever remember this day, as I've gone from beginner to that next step just beyond beginner.
This is great. Improved my few songs that I know as beginner by a lot!
Had to watch a begging-for-dollars ad from Cackling Chylmadia before this vid started. That’s how much I really wanted to see your lesson.
Haha what a trooper!
I started doing that without even realizing it, it kinda just happened and I started to strum like that, idk if that happens to anyone else
fenderbendercam me too!
Same!!
Me too and I've only been playing for a week
SO, there four? U have 'Other' reason to B here? listen, 'Queer' is Now 'OK'!
@@q4991 nigga what on Earth did you just try to say
Really love your videos and how they are pitched at the 'hey, I didn't learn guitar from classical classes" people. Although I'm already past this stage, I can see how useful this would have been when I was learning -- and how accssible you're making it (oh you're not using a pick? Sure! Oh, you use your thumb to strum? Okay!) Amazing.
This is a great lesson. I've played rhythm and bass in bands since I was 13. That was 1962. Over the years I never learned to count but u got better and better at muting, playing only parts of the full chord, etc. I couldn't have done a better lesson on this. But I love to have a rhythm playoff against you 😎.
Intro is pure gold.
Cool. You're positioned to make the notes ring. Like it.
Your intros cure my depression.
The clozapine of intros!
C O M P A D R E You need better depression.
Thank you so much for this very valuable lesson.... I like your way of teaching, clear, concise and easy to digest. Helps me a lot to enjoy playing 🙏🏻
So greate. Amazing, wonderful, excellent. God bless you and increase your knowledge
Wow dude. You are awesome. I am a beginner and love to play acoustic guitar. But i can not control my fingers and plectrum. I loose my control over it and can even remember which string i am hitting. Make videos for beginners please
Thanks so much! More on the way!
Thanks Bud! I'm a multi-instrumentalist that just picked up guitar 2 yrs ago...progressing rapidly.
I play Irish bodhran drum. The guitars strumming technique shares many similarities to the "tipper" hand of the drum. Holding the tipper, holding the pick..the downbeats, the upbeats...much like paradiddles, etc. So it transfered in a matter of minutes...not months!
Now it's time to get muting, and muscle memory...I've got my major and minor chords down- and changing at 80-100 BPM.
Thanks SO MUCH!
Can you do a video on anchor fingers, which chords are generally seen in pairs (ie- C to G, D to E, etc). TY!! :)
Great lesson, feel inspired now, thank you
Thanks for saying so!
Sean, thanks. This was very helpful. Not everyone JUST FINDS these methods. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR LESSONS.
Happy to help! I'll keep them coming!
on the second thing you're good at: you do a great impression of "Chuck" (Paul Rudd) that surf teacher in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"!
Strumming patterns are so fucking important, they don't seem it at first, but man you really gotta be on top of it.
Thank you for your videos, sir!😊 I may have said it in a different comment section. But, I am learning on my own how to play the guitar and sometimes the piano! Lol, I love writing songs, and even just the couple of videos I have seen, are helpful. 😊
Did this earlier and its works, I use a pick and finger. Works well.
Great song.
This is exactly what I need to be working on...and I have been since I found this video.
Keep taking the clozapine, it’s obviously working, nice lesson 👍thankyou.
Dude that was fantastic. Thank you for making that
A BIG help! Thanks Sean
Happy to help!
best strumming lesson so far
I love that intro
I learned so much here that I've glossed over. Thanks for this resource!
You are awesome dude you're a good 👍 teacher
Thank you so much!
I found this really interesting and it breaks it down t make us sound better you can also try strumming at different points on the strings, towards the bridge is a brighter sharper sound, and towards the neck is duller and blends in...
You and Andres should collab and do a in-depth strumming video. Would love to hear you two discuss it because of the pick vs. finger style differences.
I agree. Great idea.
Another gem, thank you!
Great lesson Sean! I will have to start trying this technique because to date I have just been hitting all of the strings. Thanks!
Time to tighten it up!
Thanks a million ❤ For this valuable lesson on strumming.
Thanks Sean , been struggling in this area , good job!
Ty for sharing! This has helped my strumming in one sitdown watching and learning your wrist work.
wow.. Very informative technique.... Enjoyed it...
Great lesson, Sean. (Not that your other lessons aren't really well done, just that this delve into advanced beginner/intermediate level technique is exactly the level where my practice resides.) So, next related issue: I'm having a lot of difficulty executing tremolo picking when trying to do that passage with the slides on the three highest strings in the song Rumble. Any help very much appreciated! Thanks, Sean.
Always happy to help Ron!
Simple and sweet !!
Thanks!
Im good with chords but my problem is my strumming, this video helped a bit and ill be watching this alot! Thanks Sean!
Happy to help!
Thanks Sean.....very useful lesson...
its good for my stramming this is so helpdul thank you👌👍
Happy to help!
thank you so much, i apply that to my learnings in playing guitar.
Sounds great for blowin in the wind
Classic song.
You don't actually learn it,you just have to find it and practice it.
Its actually what happened to me. After playing guitar for awhile I just suddenly did some pretty good strumming. Just came out naturally haha
Preach! When you learn to feel what your playing and you put in basic fundamental practice it just starts showing up and your like well hell lookie here!
That’s exactly what learning it is LOL
oh, Poppycock , U ain't bin wit the 'Real people' , Out Side of 'Berklee' Musical chair-school ....
Awesome video! Great tip
Thanks so much!
This is a really good lesson. My strumming is crap because I only work on it when no one else is home, which is rare. Even an unplugged Telecaster is too loud for my family. How do your students practice it without driving their families crazy?
Trent China buy some amp headphones or play in a garage
Idk my family usually enjoys watching me play and it’s not Much of a nuisance
@Jason Villa Jason where can I find those amp headphones (Inexpensive of course).
new subscriber! I like your NO BS approach!
Hi Sean can you kindly making a video on combing strumming and picking in a chord progression Will appreciate thank you
I looked at the thumbnail and got it thank you man!
Wonderful lesson!
Thanks!
One of the best guitar tutorials I’ve seen yet, keep up the good work man 😁👍
Cool you could also add a double strum in there too
Always! As long as you're counting in the framework of solid timing, anything is fair game!
Really basic knowledge but truly important knowledge! 👍 Thanks
It's a very good lesson thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
It took me years of playing to realize the importance of right hand positioning. I can tell if someone is any good or not by watching them without even hearing them. Good players never move their picking/strumming hand very far away from position. You will never play well if your hand is all over the place and losing track of where the strings are. I used to pull my hand completely away from the guitar during a pause when I was not picking or strumming, so I had to find the strings all over again for the next strum! That's why videoing is so important. To see these kind of things.
Great guitar video! Who would have thought that by watching scare tactics on here I'd find a video to improve my strumming.
At 10:13 is like he's starting to sing already hahaha this guy is so cool.