Description
Let's start with the basics of strumming, and then teach you to strum in a variety of keys, tempos, and time signatures. Along the way, you'll learn to play 10 songs! A solid foundation in strumming basics is essential to playing folk, rock, pop, blues, and more. Get started right here!
Lesson Info
Instructor
Lisa McCormick
Tutorial Lessons
- Acoustic Strumming: Getting Started
- Learn Your First Strum Pattern!
- Hey, Ho, Nobody Home (song to play!)
- Frere Jacques (song to play!)
- What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?: Prep and Practice
- What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? (song to play!)
- John Henry, Prep and Practice
- John Henry (slowed down)
- John Henry (song to play!)
- The Next Step: Add an Upstroke!
- Shortnin' Bread, Prep and Practice
- Shortnin' Bread (song to play!)
- Slant the Rhythm with Syncopation
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (song to play!)
- Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore: Prep and Practice
- Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore (song to play!)
- Learn to Strum in 3/4 Time
- Darling Clementine (song to play in 3/4 time)
- Make it Dance: Syncopated Upstrokes in 3/4 Time
- Amazing Grace, Prep and Practice
- Amazing Grace (song to play!)
- How Can I Keep From Singing?, Prep and Practice
- How Can I Keep From Singing? (song to play!)
