how to strum guitar - strum no.1

From my years of experience teaching real beginners just like you how to play acoustic guitar, I know that the fastest way to be able to play lots of songs is through the power of learning Universal Strums. These are guitar strums which can be applied to a wide variety of different songs and different tempos too. Sure it’s possible to learn one new strum for every new song but how will that ever be successful? It’s just not practical for beginners on guitar to learn like that.

For our first Universal Strum we have Strum No.1 which is among the top 3 in terms of its capacity to be transposed over to countless hundreds of popular songs. In the lesson we learn it first in slow motion and go through the motions so clearly that it’s going to seem really simple and you’re sure to understand it. In order to know something, you have to first understand it and this is a guiding principal in Guitar in a Nutshell.

We always use drum tracks when learning and practicing our strumming throughout the guitar lessons. This is because strums mean nothing unless they are put into a rhythmical context and that’s exactly what the drum tracks add to the lessons. By working with them you’ll be forced into adhering to a solid meter or tempo in your strum work which was perhaps sadly lacking before, being able to play in time is absolutely essential if you want to play guitar well.

By using very easy beginner chord progressions you’ll find that you’re able to take your mind’s focus off chords and into the strumming side of things instead, in fact, when we first learn these strums we don’t even play any chords at all. If you have been struggling with your ability to strum guitar and don’t have any set system for doing it you’ve probably felt quite frustrated by songs, chord books and online guitar TABs. These lessons are going to solve that problem for you once and for all.

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