Essential Rhythm Guitar Techniques - Beginner & Intermediate Guitar Lesson

[@AlexBradyMusic]

Great lesson! Your way of holding the pick is pretty unique, most people I know hold it more between the pad of the thumb and the lateral side of the index. I was taught by my teacher that that was the "right" way of holding it, but I guess it doesn't matter.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thanks for watching! There a many viable ways to hold the pick. The one you mentioned is pretty standard, but it doesn't allow you to hybrid pick as easily because of your hand position or have the same level of control when making micro adjustments to the pick as you play (which is especially important when strumming). When trying to alternate pick quickly, I tend to move the pick into a position much more like the one you're talking about.

[@jordanmulvihill9195]

This is one of the best strumming lessons I’ve ever seen! I’ve been looking for one for awhile now and all of them don’t answer the questions you did in this one, thank you so much!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful :)

[@thedonbishop55]

Great rhythm lesson. I wish someone one showed me these techniques years ago. Thank you.

[@SuperdangerStudios]

I play wayyy too tight in my arm. My wrist is still locked after all these years! Ugh. Time to practice. Thanks for the tips here man.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thanks for checking out the video bro 🙌

[@kinleydorji]

Thank you Andrew, a most timely lesson as I return to the basics.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Glad I could help 😁

[@FaithLikeDavid_]

Ready to learn! 🚀😎🎸

[@dankallal7970]

Thanks for sharing this with us. Nice lesson!

[@Alex_U]

Rockstar!🤟🏻

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

🙌🙌

[@MarlonG527]

Great video

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thanks for watching!

[@FirstLast-nn2bj]

Great lesson!

[@michealhand1001]

Hello Andrew could you film the Proper strumming Technique lookink down along the Fretboard?.Thanks.Great Instruction!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I'll try and make that angle possible in future videos I make on sturmming. Cheers!

[@C.SERVEthegoat]

Nice Video ! Can you pls make a vid on timing it will really be helpful.Thanks

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Good idea!

[@vitaliiturinskyi]

Hi, Andrew, thank your for the lesson. I always had a problem with palm muting, because when I move my hand back to palm mute, my elbow and shoulers needs to move back and up, and it becomes uncomfortable to hold it like that for more and a minute or too. Do you know how to deal with this?

[@Amatteus]

Thank you Andrew...from Andreu in Barcelona. If you are ever around let me know.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

You're welcome, Andreu! I'd love to visit Barcelona someday. Cheers!

[@Amatteus]

@@andrewclarkeguitar Where are you?

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

@@Amatteus Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@alokmehta6024]

Hi dude...Thanks for teaching us! Are there any classes that you take online? I am from India and I would love to learn from you

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I'm working very hard on making courses available to you guys. Should be launching in January! :)

[@gbohnen]

can you tell me how you have setup your strat. neck relief, action? thank you.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I actually don't use any measuring tools when doing setups on my guitars. I do it 100% by feel. So I can't really give you any measurements to follow. However, thanks to the way Suhr guitars are made, I can essentially have the neck relief at less than 1mm. I keep my action set quite low with the exception of my low E string. I find that I hit it pretty hard, so I keep it raised a little bit to reduce rattling.

[@stringman509]

I find this a lot different strumming electric to accustic is this right 😊

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

There are some differences becayse of the body size, but the overall technique is the same.

[@C.SERVEthegoat]

Earlyyy !!!