12/8 Strumming For Beginners Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl24th April 2008
  Excellent topic and great example - thank you Jerry!
- Vinod Saranga24th April 2008
  Cool
- Nick Kellie24th April 2008
  great stuff Jerry
- Marcus Lavendell24th April 2008
  Nice lesson Jerry! Great stuff for beginners
- kyldeee24th April 2008
  Nice lesson Jerry
- Bogdan Radovic24th April 2008
  Very good lesson for beginners Jerry!
- Capt.Z24th April 2008
  useful lesson! thanks!
- Ivan Milenkovic24th April 2008
  Great lesson man!
- Mark.24th April 2008
  Nice strums
  And I also really like your guitar, it looks and sounds beautiful
- Jerry Arcidiacono24th April 2008
  Thank you guys
  Mark: I also think the same thing
- Juan M. Valero24th April 2008
  excellent lesson mate
- Alex8724th April 2008
  Great lesson Jerry
- Muris Varajic24th April 2008
  Nice lesson Jerry,very useful for GMC beginners!
- Jerry Arcidiacono24th April 2008
  Thanks!
- Joe Kataldo24th April 2008
  Useful Stuff Here! Great Lesson
- Nemanja Filipovic24th April 2008
  great lesson,really nice progression.
- Trond Vold24th April 2008
  Good and useful!
- Danilo Capezzuto24th April 2008
  Nice lesson Jerry!
- Dejan Farkas24th April 2008
  Nice and useful
- Hisham Al-Sanea24th April 2008
  great job Jerry .nice lesson
- Carlos Carrillo24th April 2008
  nice lesson Jerry!!!
- Pablo Vazquez24th April 2008
  Great lesson!!! Nice!
- stratman3324th April 2008
  nice lesson Jerry
- Alejandro Pinero24th April 2008
  cool man !
  Thanks!
- Gerardo Siere24th April 2008
  Good lesson
- Nick32525th April 2008
  nice
- Jerry Arcidiacono25th April 2008
  Thank you again
- Sergio Dorado25th April 2008
  Very good lesson for begginers
- Marcus Siepen25th April 2008
  cool lesson
- Jerry Arcidiacono25th April 2008
  Thank you Sergio & Marcus
- Carlos Carrillo25th April 2008
  great!!!
- Canis14th July 2008
  I really gotta practice strumming... I had no idea I'm so bad at it until I tried doing some simple chords on my acoustic some days ago
  
  By the way, that's a badass guitar
- Jerry Arcidiacono14th July 2008
  Thank you Canis. It's really important to master some strumming technique.

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- Tags: Strumming, Chords, Picking
Hello GMC! I wrote this lesson especially for beginners. Here the time signature is 12/8. I really suggest to read Andrew's lesson about time signatures.

It's really important to relax your picking arm while you're practicing. The strumming pattern is shown in the picture below and it's very simple.

Sometimes you will hit open strings while switching chords. This is not a problem here because all the chords involved in this lesson sound good with open strings. You should avoid this, using other chords, if it doesn't sounds good.

Enjoy!

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