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Strumming: Melissa by The Allman Brothers Band
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“Who’ll Stop The Rain” by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Difficulty: Easy This is a great song to help you work on your strumming. Notice that the strumming stays constant, and you are playing basic chords.
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“Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones
Difficulty: Intermediate Download the full guitar tab to this acoustic guitar classic. You’ll also find a strumming version of the song with chords and lyrics.
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A Shape Barre Chord Exercises
In these exercises, you are to figure out the barre chord that needs to be played, and apply them to strumming basic quarter notes. For the first few pages of exercises I’ve include red lettering that
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How To Read Slash Sheets
Slash sheets provide an overall structure for playing chords. This page will tell you how to read them.
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“I’d Love To Change The World” by Ten Years After
Difficulty: Intermediate
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What Is Strumming?
Strumming, for a guitarist, generally is used specifically to refer to when a guitarist loosely plays a series of basic guitar chords with the same rhythmic set of up and down strokes. One common mistake among beginner guitarists is to use guitar strumming patterns in place of proper rhythmic control or to try to regulate any guitar into a strumming…