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Learn a Strum-Down Pattern for the Acoustic Guitar

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Summary: Learn the strum-down pattern of an acoustic guitar in this free video series on musical instruments and music theory.

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Tom Smith Tom Smith has been a singer/musician for 25 years. He has also worked as a part-time music teacher. Tom has toured with various music bands including look a ... read more

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Learn a Strum-Down Pattern for the Acoustic Guitar

Hi, this is Tom. This video is for Expert Village.com. We're talking about strumming pattern. This is a third strumming pattern. It's useful, it'll make you sound like you know what you're doing and it's really not that hard. What it is, it's a strum down and then you're hitting the guitar almost like percussion. So you're not really playing anything. So I'm going, strum...and I'm just using this part of my hand, using this part of my hand to deaden the strings and just kind of hitting that low string, and I'm deadening it. I haven't got my finger down to ring, my fingers up slightly so it's just a thud. So it's... And then the third piece of the strumming pattern is just flicking it up. So strum down, hit it again but deadening it out with your hand and then the third piece is strumming it up. I'm just hitting about the three strings here, the three highest strings on my way back. So all together it sounds something like this.

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