How to Strum a Guitar WITHOUT a Pick
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
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🎸 In this lesson for beginners, you'll learn how to strum a guitar without a pick. We'll explore how to strum with your thumb, how to strum with your first finger, and the best way of strumming. #JustinGuitar #guitar #guitarforbeginners
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00:00 Is it better to play guitar with a pick or fingers?
01:18 How to strum a guitar with your thumb?
05:25 Does your guitar sound bad when you strum?
07:25 How to strum with your first finger?
09:53 Cool way of strumming the guitar without a pick!
11:44 Playing the bass note with your thumb
13:30 Exploring the possibilities!
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Me:copies his hand motions
His guitar: *lovely strum*
Mine: *racket*
same!!! omg
You, too, huh? I was going to use it as an excuse to get a new guitar. Darn it!
The fuckin way she goes
Sameeeee
ahahaha true
I'm here because I lost my pick
Same here 😂😢😅
Most of us are here for the same reason lol
Same lol
me too 😂😂
Same
Love how you're just sitting there casually explaining whilst your fingers are IN A CHORD :D my fingers would be dead
Finger style strumming without a pick is hard... chords are bitching to strum. Thanks for letting me know what to do
uhh i literally zoned out and thought, "his voice sounds nice"
😂😂me too
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Lmao
Bob ross moment
The homie could narrate baking shows
Your videos are looking and sounding fantastic these days, Justin. I've been playing for 12 years but I still check out your beginner videos to make sure the foundations of my playing remain solid. Thanks for the many years of amazing free lessons. You're the best teacher on the platform, by a lightyear :)
Amen!
I agree!
Lmao
An extremely well done lesson. I have been playing guitar for almost 70 years and use my thumb alone far more fequently than I use a pick. I am (was) a classical guitar player and all my guitars use nylon strings and have a wide flat fret board. I find the pick a little too harsh and since I play mostly to entertain myself, I like the soft sound of the thumb and the thumb gives you far more dynamic range from softness to loudness than I am able to achieve with a pick. When I first was learning as a child I had steel string guitar with a crowned narrow neck and I used just a pick for a couple years and then used the pinch method you mentioned where the finger nail of my index finger served as a pick -- either because I had misplaced my pick or just didn't want to take the time to get it because I only had a very short time to practice. I found that "fake pick" (I call it) method gave me more accuracy that the real pick because it gave me tactile feedback that you don't get with a pick. Then I saw a fellow who was using just his thumb alone without the finger. By the time I got a new classical guitar in my early teens I had started using the thumb alone unless I was playing just chords in accompanying my singing in which case I used a pick. As I got better at integrating chords with the melody I found that i needed to use the thumb exclusively. I experimented some with the thumb and finger style of strumming and then learned finger picking using the thumb mostly for the base notes. About ten years or so ago I got ET (Essential Treemors which effected my fingers more than my thumb and changed my style of playing where I used just the down stroke stopping on the melody note. Then my left hand became arthritic and I could no longer play up the neck and for two years I gave up guiitar and even gave my guitar as a graduation present to a cousin's son. About two years ago I got another guitar and started playing again and got my callouses back. I am going to try the the thumb and finger method that you demonstrated for strumming whenI am singing. I am 82 but one is never too old to try something new.
Thanks for sharing!! Gives me hope
Thanks for your inspiration, Richard.
Thank you for sharing this, stay safe
Why do old people do this
rock n roll man
Hi Justin! 🙋🏻♂️ I learned from your beginner course. I started when I was 9. I’m 11yo now. It was challenging but you made it fun. Thanks! Check out how I’m doing!
Great stuff Arjay! :) doing awesome!
Arjay's Journey >>> Good for you Arjay! I'm glad for you. You've already got a big jump on me. I'm just beginning to learn at 62. Wishing you luck buddy, keep plucking them strings! We'll be looking for your You Tube vid in the future ! ✌🏻🇺🇸
@@georgeb8701 I took up guitar at 60. Now I Travis pick, flat pick fiddle tunes, sing and play a wide range of songs with different groups and solo. It takes longer (it seems) to learn some things and physical/muscle changes are slow, but all is possible. Hardest thing I've ever done and the most fun. Don't give up: practice, practice, practice and play with others as much as possible.
Spectre Gaming damn calm down
@@kurtpatino5464 Lol, who hurt you, bro??
At 15:13, it sounds like you say, "to thumberize" instead of "to summarize", which is great considering so much of the lesson is about thumb use. Freudian pun?
Great lesson! Super-interesting stuff.
I hope all your viewers fully understand the importance of this particular tutorial. Not only does it apply to players from beginner to advanced, but it can give hope to people recovering from hand and arm injuries. Until you have experienced a right arm nerve impingement, you can't possibly know how discouraging it is to find that after 30 years playing, suddenly you can't feel or hold a pick. That happened to my arm in 2004 (work injury). I stopped trying to play for almost 3 years. The doctor told me I might start to see improvement in 5 years or so. One day I picked up my Yairi and decided I would find a way to make music, and my whole musical world began to change. But, several years later I stumbled onto your videos and one day I was chasing rabbits looking up some ideas gleaned from your work, and found an interview of Stephen Stills. He described how he rarely uses a pick, but instead uses the thumb/index finger technique, which leaves 3 more fingers to do all kinds of other things. Watching Stills do Daylight Again, Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Treetop Flyer, and countless others, along with Neil Young on Love and War, Deadman's Theme, and others, have inspired me to find a way to play. As a side note, in the spring of 2018, the feeling started coming back in my right hand. The doctor told me it was because I continued to find a way to use it. Still can't hold a pick, but I have discovered a whole new way to play in the meantime.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
that's great! I admire that you didn't give up your music.
That must have been incredibly difficult to go through, I am so glad you found a way to continue with what you love and that it helped to heal you.
Awesome
I started playing guitar again after years of not touching one. Started again with an organization here in the States called Guitar For Veterans. They give Veterans 10 free classes and when you complete the course you are given a new guitar for free. My instructor recommended you to advance in my learning. I since have invested in your course and additional books. Thanks for making this available to beginners and advanced players.
Another great lesson perfectly explained. 4 months ago I had never picked up a guitar. With the help of your beginner lessons and 2 hours every day without fail, it's starting to come together! Thank you Justin!
This came at the perfect time for me. I'm only a few months into learning and I've just started experimenting with playing without a pick. Was good to get some guidance. Another great lesson Justin.
Thanks Justin. You said this was on your list and I’m so glad you posted it sooner than later. Have been searching high and low for a lesson like this. You’re the best.
Justin Sir, Thank you for your service to the world. May God bless you with great health! !
Love from India!
That was some of the best 17 minutes of guitar tutorial I’ve ever watched. A lot more sound information than just about not using a pick, too. I never use a pick, much to the dismay of couple of guys I jam around with. This is sort of vindication, lol. Thanks!
This was very helpful. Thank you for your content! :)
14:14 the best guitar I’ve heard
Do you know that song is it?
You’re an amazing teacher. You explain things very well, are VERY knowledgeable, and you emphasize individual preferences, exploration and having fun. Thank you
Great lesson! I've just picked up my first acoustic and the timing for me is perfect. Thank you!
From beggining i used only hands,never picks and no problem :D
Just like me
Davie504 is happy
Pick is very very important if u want to advance in Guitar
@@applesap278 yep Davie is happy
@@shreyashshrestha6085 Nope, there's tons of successful guitarist that use fingers.
Find your own way, your own path, in the musical journey.. Thanks for the inspiration Justin
A really great lesson, Justin. This topic is very rarely covered. Thank you.
This is great! Thank you. For years I have played with bands and also sing solo using a pick, but when I'm not hooked up to a PA, my guitar overpowers my voice when playing with a pick. It has been 40 years since I have played with one. Now I have to do gigs without an amplifier to sing so I have to learn how to do this again. I can't believe I forgot how. It used to come natural to me. Thanks again. God bless!
Hi Justin, great video. I am a beginner on your course, just at stage 2 now, and enjoying it, I tend to move towards finger strumming, so this has been a helpful session. Loving the beard mate suits you a treat!!
Hey Justin just wanted to say thank you from a fellow Tasmanian. I appreciate the amount of detail and the time you have put into these videos.
WOW, another Class 1A lesson 🙏. Top quality!!
I saw various youtubers making us learn Guitar but Justin guitar is my favourite..Timeless teaching style. ❤️
Thanks Justin. I love your emphasis on developing a technique that feels comfortable and sounds good to me vs pressing myself to imitate what some instructors, as you pointed out, “insist” is THE proper technique. My dad once told me that Arnold Palmer had one of the most in-orthodox golf swings possible, and he ends up being golfing legend. Again, many thanks. Your relaxed style of teaching is simply wonderful. You have a gift.
Im trying to learn the guitar again and these videos help me a lot!! Thank you!!! ❤️
Top lesson as per usual Justin, cheers. Very useful.
Great lesson Justin! Very helpful for a beginner like myself. Thanks...........
great lesson Justin! thank you
Thank you so much for your videos! They are extremely helpful!!
loved this one, dude, thank you!! been struggling the last few days, been tryna learn guitar somewhere before i start looking for courses cause my mom is not so well financially rn (i mainly play piano, so i already know intermediate/advanced music theory) but it's been a real pain in the ass to find useful free help, your website it's been the most help i've had yet, so thank you
Excellent. I'm just starting out, and I thought I was weird for liking strumming but not liking the pick. Now I feel more 'in contact' with the guitar, and even more glad that I opted for an OM instead of a dread. Many thanks.
Thanks for the video!
It was just what I needed!
Great job on this video, Justin. Awesome production quality. You pretty much single-handedly taught me how to play guitar over the last three years. Keep up the great content :)
Iv been playing guitar for nearly 20 years and only used a pick for about the first year🤷🏻♂️ mate i figured out playing with my fingers its like an orchestra in a way. Each finger has a role to play and once you get comfortable with it it becomes effortless and unique 🤟🏻 i fully recommend putting the pick down
Appreciate this and I share with many other folks. Cheers!
Ha ha, i was playing guitar more than 20 yrs by just fingers and now trying an electric guitar with a pick. i know there will be endless learning even the day i die and that´s why i love this man.
Coming from a ukulele background, using a plec is most definitely alien to me. Watching your vid made me remember when I was learning anything new, even though I kept going, ‘I’m never going to be able to do this.’ Then at some point in time I’d think, ‘Why was that so hard.’ Thanks for the reminder and keep up with the great lessons.
Thank you ... you r so precise yet lots of flexibilities with your method. You make a very good tutor 👍🏻
Wow I didn't though much of this lesson when I saw the title but I'm very happy that I listened to it completely!
I would love a similar video on how to get hybrid picking to sound consistent between the pick and the fingers.
Love this tutorial. Will keep following your videos. Thanks a lot.
Awesome video Justin. You have a way of explaining thing's really well. I joined your website.
Hes the only youtube guitar tutorialist that read my mind and complications i was using my finger and thumb individually and wondering why nobody has made video on those options then he comes outta left field and breaks it down..well done chap youve earned my subscription
Thank you! Wonderful lesson, simply and clear!
His explanations are very clear and concise.
Very helpful, thanks bro.
Extremely helpful. Never found something as informative as this video 💜💜
Thanks Justin, as always very helpful.
Awesome course! Thanks for the content!
awesome dude, this gives me a lot of confidence! thanks!
Thank you so much! This was so helpful! x
Thank you for the tips!
My finger always gets stuck the up strum, but now I know how to fix it!
Thank you for this! First video I found that thoroughly explains different options and doesn't say that one is better than the other-just for different types of songs or whatever. I've somehow taught myself to strum with mainly my middle finger and partly my ring finger and pinky. I'm now trying to unlearn that habit and do it with my pointing finger (don't know the English word lol) because the sound seems clearer. But I'm also just gonna worry a bit less about it now that I've seen this video. :D
Thank you, this was a really great lesson!
Thanks for the video. This helps me a lot
I was looking for this for a long time. Excellent to have your channel in my subscribed channel list. Thanks a lot Justin 👍👍👍
Thanks Justin,great lesson
Thank you!!!! This is very helpful in learning the guitar
This is wonderful, thank you kindly!
I can't wait to try out every method. You are a gifted teacher and you make it fun. I'm a beginner enjoying every moment as i plod along
Very very nice and effective lessons.
Thank you so much Sir.
Very helpful and clearly explained, thanks very much😀😀😀
thank you a beginner here your helping so much
Thank You very much!
After listening this Your Video I've a bit relaxed, as I can see I was not playing so wrong, and there are many ways, anyone should just find his own style! 👍
thanks sir for sharing your ideas. appreciated so much
A very nice and informative lesson. Thanks for doing this.
OMG, this was so helpful, thanks a lot! I never knew what I was doing with my right hand until now!
One combo you didn't mention that I use quite often is a variation of the invisible pick pinch style where I use the nail of my index finger on the down strum, and the thumbnail on the up stroke. It's a bit louder and brighter than the fleshy parts of the fingers, but still quieter than a pick. I've never really used a pick well, and I find it easier to be accurate with my fingers because I just know where they are. It just feels more natural to me.
I strum the same way too.i always struggles with the pick.with imaginary pick between tumb and first finger but use my nails
I do this as well. For me finger strumming in general sounds kind of more natural. Not all notes ring out at the same loudness, which makes it more organic in my opinion. I like to pluck the bass strings with my fleshy side of the thumb, and most of the times I like to accent my down strums with my index finger nail and upstrum with the fleshy part of my thumb. Gives a bit more variety to the song!
Very useful information! Thank you😊👍
Thank you for this playlist.
I started guitar only a few weeks ago and 14:14 looks like crazy! I can’t wait to figure out how to do something like that
Well explained Sr 👏 thank you very much 😊
The best. As always, great content!
That's the best video you can find on the youtube, who legit knows how to teach finger picking.. ❤️
thank you so much great lesson.
Another great lesson Justin. In a good way you are like my comfy jandels. I’m so used to your teaching I learn fast. Because you have a great manor and lesson are structured similar. I have your first guitar book for beginners. Maybe I need to buy another. Cheers Brent
very cool, great vid. clear, consise explanation. Appreciate the close ups. Just beginning to learn at 62. I've always wanted to learn to play the guitar. It's a beautiful instrument that makes beautiful music. Anyway I need all the help I can get. Thanks Justin, know that your efforts are not in vain dude. I liked and subbed! ✌🏻🇺🇸
Hi I'm 55 from NW I started last year with a big expection but over time I realized that this is something very different language I went and tooked 2 terms in college they teach how read music which for me still is been hard I would rather to learn couple song and enjoy and my myself think I can do it I been learning with videos like this are very helpful taking guitar lessons are kind of expensive good luck in your journey I'm already started playing in my church choir getting more confident day by day
Was waiting for this tutorial..thank uh so much..u r d best
Thanks! :)
Been trying to learn guitar for about 10 years now and something never quite sounded right. Thank you so much for your videos they’re a game changer! Learning how to get out of all my self taught bad habits!
Oh my godddd Justin this helped me alottt thank you do muchhhh I literally needed thiss ahh god bless youuu 🥺💜💜💜
Great video Justin! Probably the most detailed description of finger strumming on UA-cam! Cheers!
Very good ,Sir..thanks
This is very useful. Thank you sir.
Really nice vid, thanks Justin
Thank you for this video. I"ve been practicing ukulele on my own for almost a year. Love it. Happen to have a guitar now and it was to big I thought at first but I like the sound I can make some. Don't want to use a pick and practicing my own sounds with thumb and other fingers with out guidance as its just a start. Glad to know thats ok and that ppl do different techniques. Maybe I'll get past an E cord one day. Right now I like the sound of strumming thin cords and picking and thick cords and picking. Just realized that with such a huge instrument I can actually do that. Thanks again from a 50 year old who just loves learning and need the sound for my own peace of mind.
This video will really help me to get much more comfortable in playing the guitar without a pick, thank you Justin, I'm a big fan of your amazing Videos :)
Cheers Pelle!
i just wane say thanke u this did really help me a lot my 2 fav ways are where u like turn ur fingers in to a pick and my 2 is the thumb and pionter finger
Very interesting. Thank you
Excellent teacher
Here's it for what i was looking for tq sir for all the efforts n time to teach for PPL like us🥺😍tq so much sir God bless you
I've always strummed like how he's doing it at 09:55
In fact almost all of the time when I'm playing an acoustic guitar, I'll play using this method.
I don't move my whole arm, but rather do a pivot twist at the rist to creat my up and down strumming motions.
I'm also able to do 16th or even 32th beat strums using this method as it gives me more speed
Really helps. Cheers
Thank you Justin
I always struggled with a pick so mostly I play fingerstyle, burt since I've seen lesson 1 of Tammy's lessons I can play also with a pick now without being frustrated, thnx.
That’s really good. Wow,thanks for sharing that info.
Thank you! That’s gonna help.