I just recently got another acoustic guitar and this lesson to will add a lot to my new instrument. I was familiar with 3 of your techniques. Thanks Heath.
I found this VERY informative. I play a classical guitar, folk music and ballad type songs. My strumming is your 5th beginner sample and it's starting to sound very much same old/same old. I will definitely save this video for future practice. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing how to strum without a pick using fingers to play down up strokes with varying dynamics to sound better in your guitar rhythms playing techniques.
I've been doing the "invisible pick" for decades. I don't remember how I started doing it. I was young. Many times I found myself without a pick nearby so I developed that method. Sometimes I intentionally don't use a pick if I am going to do a complicated or fast strum or alternate finger picking and strumming in a song. I don't like to hybrid pick. My hand is less restricted without having to hold a pick. I usually use two or three fingers for the down strum. The attack sounds better with a pick though.
Great video. As for your Boom-Chuck, you explain the thumb pattern well (bass-chord-bass-chord), but where do the upstrokes with the index finger typically fall in? Thanks!
Well the upstrokes can come at the same time as the thumb or inbetween. Check out my lesson on Thumb Independence to help with this. Thanks for wathcing!
Thanks! I've been practicing to your Thumb Independence video. In A, it covers the thumb string pattern 5-4-6-4. This seems right for C too, thumb strings 5-4-6-4, with a low G in the bass. For D, it's a string up at 4-3-5-3. E must be 6-4-5-4, as is G. That's pretty close, right? Your Thumb Independence video did help overnight as you stated. That's muscle memory for ya. I tend to think of the bass downbeats in A, C, and D as going "high-low". Downbeats in E and G go "low-high".
I just recently got another acoustic guitar and this lesson to will add a lot to my new instrument.
I was familiar with 3 of your techniques.
Thanks Heath.
Great to hear! Thanks for commenting Kerry! Hope you're liking your new acoustic!
I found this VERY informative. I play a classical guitar, folk music and ballad type songs. My strumming is your 5th beginner sample and it's starting to sound very much same old/same old. I will definitely save this video for future practice. Thanks.
Great, Im glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for your lessons. I’m 80 and learning, but very, very slowly.
Thats great! Keep having fun with it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for sharing how to strum without a pick using fingers to play down up strokes with varying dynamics to sound better in your guitar rhythms playing techniques.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I've been doing the "invisible pick" for decades. I don't remember how I started doing it. I was young. Many times I found myself without a pick nearby so I developed that method. Sometimes I intentionally don't use a pick if I am going to do a complicated or fast strum or alternate finger picking and strumming in a song. I don't like to hybrid pick. My hand is less restricted without having to hold a pick. I usually use two or three fingers for the down strum. The attack sounds better with a pick though.
Ooh. I need this lesson! Great topic.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you! Appreciate your teaching skills
Love your style of teaching!!!❤
Thank you! 😃
Great video. As for your Boom-Chuck, you explain the thumb pattern well (bass-chord-bass-chord), but where do the upstrokes with the index finger typically fall in? Thanks!
I think that's when you're a thumb and forefinger only blues player, picking out melodies based on the minor pentatonic scale to provide melody.
Well the upstrokes can come at the same time as the thumb or inbetween. Check out my lesson on Thumb Independence to help with this. Thanks for wathcing!
Thanks! I've been practicing to your Thumb Independence video.
In A, it covers the thumb string pattern 5-4-6-4. This seems right for C too, thumb strings 5-4-6-4, with a low G in the bass.
For D, it's a string up at 4-3-5-3.
E must be 6-4-5-4, as is G.
That's pretty close, right? Your Thumb Independence video did help overnight as you stated. That's muscle memory for ya.
I tend to think of the bass downbeats in A, C, and D as going "high-low". Downbeats in E and G go "low-high".
Great! Thank You very much for the lesson :)
Thanks! Im glad you liked it! Thanks for leaving a comment!
nice lesson
Thanks!
If you watch enough John Lee Hooker, you'll see his trigger finger "fast exit", kind of like he's firing a gun at the strings.
Yep!
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