A Major Fingernail Strumming Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl22nd January 2008
  Very nice Jerry - I love your jazzy touch on these acoustic lessons!
- Dejan Farkas22nd January 2008
  Cool lesson Jerry
- botoxfox22nd January 2008
  Very cool
- coffeeman22nd January 2008
  Beautiful lesson Jerry.
- Ivan Milenkovic22nd January 2008
  Nice lesson man, I like those chords!
- Muris Varajic22nd January 2008
  Sounds great Jerry,nice use of index tho!!
- Pablo Vazquez22nd January 2008
  Cool lesson! Well done Jerry.
- Bogdan Radovic22nd January 2008
  Very interesting lesson ! Great tune also!
- Maximus22nd January 2008
  Nice.
- The Uncreator22nd January 2008
  Great stuff, i love the groove of the song, very nice feel to it
- Toni Suominen22nd January 2008
  Cool sounding lesson mate!!
- kyldeee22nd January 2008
  Sounds cool mate great lesson, gonna learn this one...
- Gerardo Siere22nd January 2008
  really nice and jazzy sound, one thing that has it own flavor is trying on acoustic rythm guitar (specialy for balads) is using a realy thin pike like 0.48 mm or so.
- Hisham Al-Sanea22nd January 2008
  good job jerry nice riff
- Jerry Arcidiacono22nd January 2008
  Thank you guys!
  Gerardo: you're right. I normally use thin picks with the acoustic guitar but for this lesson I wanted to show the sound produced by the index finger.
- Juan M. Valero25th January 2008
  good lesson my friend, it's really cool this acoustic sound
- Jerry Arcidiacono25th January 2008
  Thank you Juan!
- seagull7th February 2008
  Lovely tune, when I get a set of new strings I think I'll pay my homage to your great acoustic lessons by recording it.
- Jerry Arcidiacono7th February 2008
  seagull: Thank you, it would be great
- Danilo Capezzuto26th February 2008
  Bravo Jerry, nice lesson.
- Carlos Carrillo27th March 2008
  excellent lesson Jerry!!!
- Alberto Catasso5th September 2008
  Cool!
- Jerry Arcidiacono6th September 2008
  Thank you guys

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- Tags: No pick, Ear training
Hello GMC! I made this lesson to show you another idea for strumming. When I started to write this lesson I found that I didn't like the sound of the pick attack. So... I've recorded the lesson without the pick.

My right index finger does the work: with the fingernail I play the downstrokes and with the fingertip I play the upstrokes.

You can find the Guitar Pro file with chord diagram, as usual.

A little suggestion: if you have some experience with rhythm guitar, try to find the strumming pattern by ear. If you are able to do this, you've made a BIG step in your musical training.

Key: A major
Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 96 bpm

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