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We kind of went over strumming just a little bit with the right hand and in the pick. We have talked about keeping the wrist (Guitar playing). You know, keeping that wrist loose, giving across those strings (Guitar playing) do not dig through them like that (Guitar playing) nice and easy.
Now, the first thing that I want to talk about is called constant right hand movement, which means, you are constantly moving the right hand, down, up, down, it is like the metronome, down, up, down, up (Guitar playing) down, up, down, up, down, up. Now, some of the time, you will strum (Guitar playing) across the strings in making the chord the other time which what I call as ghost strum.
You will strum away from the string (Guitar playing) but your right hand is constantly moving, as I said constant right hand movement. Let me give you an example for a strum pattern here. We are going to use eight separate parts here on the right hand. It is going to be down, up, down, up, down, up, and down, up, right. Some of the strums will be full strums across the guitar. Others will be ghost strums, they will be away from the guitar.
So, as I said eight movements. Let us start – you know what? When I am working on my strumming, I like to use an easy chord, because you are going to hold it on there for awhile. So, let us start with an E chord which you learn and E major that you learned (Guitar playing) on the last sections.
What we are going to do is we are going to start. Then remember, there is going to be eight movements. We are going to start with the first one which is just a straight down strum (Guitar playing). The next one is an up strum or a ghost strum here, right here. We have (Guitar demonstration) then we have three and four, our regular strums (Guitar demonstration) (Guitar playing) then number five, you are going to miss ghost strum and then finally (Guitar demonstration) are going to be up, down, up.
So, if we put this all together slowly, we have (Guitar demonstration). Again, slowly, remember you are going to ghost strum or miss them on the two and the five. It is going to sound like this, (Guitar playing) and you probably heard that strum about a million songs. Let us work on that a little bit. We are going to use (Guitar playing) the chords (Guitar playing) E, A, (Guitar playing) E, (Guitar playing) and B7.
Because from the last, we did the C, G and D, so this will give you some practice on some other chords, alright. I am going to do it a little slow first. Remember, you are going to miss the two and the five.
(Guitar demonstration) A chord, (Guitar demonstration) back to the E (Guitar demonstration) B7 (Guitar demonstration) right there and when you are through, it is going to sound like this (Guitar playing) and that is a nice chord progression too (Guitar playing) (Guitar demonstration) and then, maybe, ends with an E chord just to give you your chord progression a little bit of an ending.
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