Strumming Patterns

What are they for?

In order to add a lit­tle vari­ety to your gui­tar play­ing, we use dif­fer­ent strum­ming pat­terns.

Strum­ming Pat­terns are a series of upstrokes and down­strokes a gui­tar player uses when strum­ming the gui­tar. Depend­ing on the vari­a­tion of each pat­tern, it keeps your sound fresh and gives you options when play­ing new songs.

A Down Stroke(strumming down)
has the sym­bol:

An Up Stroke(strumming up)
has the sym­bol:

Each strum­ming pat­tern has a ref­er­ence video to see exactly how to play it.

Note: All ref­er­ence videos use the chord pro­gres­sion: G — C — D — G