How to Strum a Guitar

By: Brian Jones

Find a songbook with chord symbols or a guitar manual and utilize these techniques with altered chords and songs. It's an added enjoyment to rehearse it if you're in performance with "actual" music at the same time.

What You'll Need

- Guitar - either electric guitar or acoustic guitar
- Guitar picks, cases and straps - choose one that your comfortable of wearing
- Amplifiers and guitar cables - for your electric guitar
- Tuner for Electric Guitar
- Guitar Stands and Music sheets
- Chairs and Music note stand

How to Strum a Guitar

Downstroke

1. Rest your guitar on your right knee while seated in a comfortable position.
2. Make sure your hands are relaxed before playing or strumming the guitar.
3. With your right thumb somewhat touching the lowest (low E) string, be sure to position your right hand above the body of your guitar.
4. Touch the easy G chord with your left hand by pressing your index finger down on the third fret of the top (high E) string, it will give you the actual chord to play.
5. From the fourth (D) string down across the strings, use your right thumb to stroke it.
6. This time, stressing the 1 (4/4 time), begin by counting 1-2-3-4 for each.
7. Stressing 1 (3/4 time), then alternately count 1-2-3.
8. Next is stressing the 1 (2/4 time) and then count 1-2-1-2.
9. By using your guitar pick between your index finger and thumb you may then listen to the different sounds of the guitar. Then explore it.

Bass-Down-Up Strum

1. For the D-string use your thumb then pluck the bass note of the chord when you're playing it.
2. Then follow it with down and upstrokes, it will look like this, pluck bass note-1 and then down up-2, then followed by down up-3 and lastly down up-4 in a 4/4 time.
3. Try it by using the same guide in a 3 / 4 and 2 / 4 time.

Down Upstroke

1. Stroke down across the guitar strings on the same chord.
2. From the smallest to the largest, stroke the guitar back against the strings. Down-up strum is this, down-1, down up-2, down up-3, down up-4 in a 4/4 time.
3. Take part in it by playing the strings in 3/4 time like down-1, up-2 and up-3.
4. Play it in a 2/4 time like down-1 and up-2.
5. Use a guitar pick or your index finger for strumming the guitar.
6. Then practice as much as you can.

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It's great to see that you enjoy playing your guitar, if you would furthermore like to improve the quality of the output, it is paramount that you learn how to tune a guitar. Learn how to tune your guitar at www.tuneaguitar.org/

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