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SESSION 9 – The Secret to Great Strumming
B o n u s R e s o u r c e s
RESOURC ES
Key Concepts
Strumming with Eighth Notes Strumming with Ties
Intervals
Skills Gained in this Session
Proper Strumming Technique Familiarity with Strumming Rhythms
Understanding Types of Intervals Understanding Naming of Intervals
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale sou ls out of men’s bodies?
- William Shakespeare (referring to the gut strings of a stringed instrument)
Session Overview
This session covers two major guitar playing ideas.the guitar. The second is a musical understanding issue involving intervals. Both are critical The first is the physical task of strumming
aspects to know as a growing guitar player.
Strumming is a skill that comes naturally for some little effort. Building good strumming technique involves holding people and for others it can be learned with a your pick firmly, keeping a
loose wrist and using a flicking motion in your hankeep the arm motion in a consistent, fluid down-up cycle only putting the pick to the strings d and wrist. The second key element is to
when you need to strum. As you speed up, don’t tenneed to be loose. When strumming down strokes, these up your arm. In order to strum fast you pick hits all of the strings needed. But
when strumming back on the up stroke the pick only the initial arm motion of strumming, it is a good idea to work with a metronome to develop hits a few of the strings. Once you learn
a steady strumming flow.
The concept of intervals is the next step in our prare the distance between two notes. Intervals are divided into two groups – Diatonic anocess of learning how music works. Intervals d
Harmonic.been raised or lowered from their natural major sca Diatonic means “within the major scale.” Harmonile position. There is a chart in the bonus c refers to intervals that have
resources to help you visualize how these intervalsconfusing at first, is the first steps into identifying chords by their structure. are named. This naming of intervals, while(^) In this session, you are beginning to move from learning just the basics about guitar. This
course is starting to shift from learning guitar toknows the basic information in the sessions before mastering guitar. Almost any guitar player this one. It is from this session on that is
the information that will bring your playing and unaverage guitar player. derstanding to a higher level than that of the
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The secret to great
strumming is...
KEEP YOUR
HAND GOING.
The most
important thing for
you to take away
from this session
is to get into the
“flow” of a
consistent Down-
Up arm motion
when strumming.
Learning how to
identify intervals by
their proper name
is the first steps to
understanding how
chords are formed.