Guitar Strumming Patterns! The PULSE Rules (Part 2)
Strumming is rhythm- and more specifically rhythm AWARENESS! If you’re not trained in reading rhythm within written music , then you need to focus on FEELING rhythm as your primary learning tool toward strumming- but you should ALWAYS be feeling rhythm anyway....
Guitar Strumming Patterns! The Good and the Bad (Part 1)
Let’s face it. When it comes to learning the guitar, strumming plays a very large role. The majority of recreational guitarists often “assume” that playing a guitar actually means “strumming a guitar”. Of course as you progress on the...
Why your Guitar Strumming Sucks: Part 1
The learning of “rhythm”, as an area of instruction on the guitar, is very hit or miss for lots of students. On the internet, you will have no trouble at all finding teachers who will show all manner of technique- like how to make chords, how to...
2017 Guitar Resolutions!
We all tend to create intended “resolutions” as one year passes and another year begins. But we also know how tenuous these resolutions often are. With warm hearts and excitement we set out to do that “great thing” only to end up at a...
Why so Scary-improvisation?
I have always been fascinated with improvisation and, as it were, scared of it at the same time. And yet, I consider myself to be a creative person. Why do I have these feelings that appear to be contrary to each other? On the one hand I feel...STRUM- Listening For How To Strum A Guitar. Click the image to download!
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