Teed
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Just keep on what you're doing, you'll have a right arm like Popeye in no time.
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"Not sure if that's sarcasm or not"
Not sure if that's sarcasm or not, as I've had a fair bit of wine tonight.
I realise I've not actually given any real examples of what to practice to improve your strumming. I suppose it depends on your personal taste and whether you play primarily electric or acoustic.
Looking back, the sort of songs I'd practice in my early days that helped to improve my strumming included:
- folk-based early "indie" like The Wonder Stuff and The Levellers, each of which have some pretty fast-strummed acoustic guitar parts that are fun to play
- Nirvana's Nevermind album - chocked to the gills with strummy goodness with an attitude while not being particularly taxing on your left hand most of the time
...and then when I got a bit better at it...
- FUNK - can't beat it for seriously building your right-hand co-ordination. To make it sound right takes a lot of control.
Totally, I'll give this a try although I have tried before and failed miserably - a bit like moyes tbh
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fyl2u
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Good Times by Chic is a fun one to get started if you're a beginner at funk/disco.
Very repetitive with the left hand all the way through the song, and the right-hand phrase is almost all downstrokes, but to make it sound right you need to have a very relaxed right-arm technique. A proper "close your eyes and let your body move with it" track to play.
Sex Machine by James Brown falls into this category too, although the strumming pattern is a little more difficult.
heston
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Slayer and metallica are ideal practice for beginners mind
Always comes back to heavy metal shit where guitars are concerned. When will people realise metal is not the f***ing be all and end all of guitar playing?
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Play thrash metal.
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Will do, it always comes back to that.
Did @tunstall birdman write that post for you?
Playing rhythm guitar is like making love to a beautiful w......
yorkyexile
Striker
Actually for strumming patterns and muting etc they arent bad. Play along with youtube and slow it downSlayer and metallica are ideal practice for beginners mind
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My guitar is like a man, big black and heavy, would'nt fancy making love to tha..
Barnacle Boy
Striker
Aye it is
yorkyexile
Striker
Mines like a woman. It`s even got a hole.... and a little hole round the back
fyl2u
Striker
Playing guitar has certainly assisted in improving... ...certain aspects of my bodily interactions with females.
Not least of which came from learning ultra-fast "vibrate your whole arm to achieve the speed required" Pantera riffs on Vulgar Display Of Power.
heston
Striker
Hippy cu*t
ErichZann
Striker
It is not the be all and end all I agree......but the high level of technique required to play metal can not be disputed.
citybythesea
Winger
Strumming is one technique of what your right hand is doing. There is lots of picking, clawing, tapping plucking as well as picking certain strings in liquid chords and appegios.....amongst many others
As one poster said learn oasis songs. (If you like them) Really easy to play especially the acoustics. Similar chord progression. Good for the basics
As one poster said learn oasis songs. (If you like them) Really easy to play especially the acoustics. Similar chord progression. Good for the basics
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fyl2u
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If you're into them, do this.
Then after you've mastered them, in week 2 of your learning the guitar from scratch, try something a bit more challenging instead.
citybythesea
Winger
If you're into them, do this.
Then after you've mastered them, in week 2 of your learning the guitar from scratch, try something a bit more challenging instead.
Aye! True that
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I'll like to admit I spent hours learning Oasis guitar riffs.
citybythesea
Winger
Arent oasis a Beatles tribute act?
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