Guitar - Understanding strumming, with a great practice routine!

Create strumming patterns, understand strumming patterns. The lesson even comes with 2 very useable ones. Learn how strumming works so you can understand patterns and not just learn them. You'll leave with a great practice routine to get you going in no time.
part 2 is here when you're ready for more • Guitar - Understanding...

[@davidblackwell6071]

I’m 75 and 5 years into learning guitar and have used dozens of videos to help me with strumming. This is by far the best of all

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you immensely!

[@johnnygreenway3579]

Great lesson. I'm a beginner at 67. My instructor had me working on my strumming yesterday. This practice routine will help me so much. Thanks again.

[@RizHallowes]

@@johnnygreenway3579 great to hear. Thanks!

[@helensmith5623]

This is THEE best strumming advice I’ve ever seen and I’ve been looking for a very long time!! Superb! Thankyou!!

[@ThomasDaroja-gd4ex]

Wow, the last dude is 67, and took away some knowledge. At 60 i started to learn guitar. Self taught by watching videos. You have a unique perspective and teaching style. Hope you’re doing well. ✌️ thank you

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you! Hope you are doing well too 😊

[@toddphipps5496]

Incredible! This is the best, most practical, explanation I've ever watched. Thank you!

[@RizHallowes]

Many thanks to you!

[@josephinestubbs7620]

I am in my 60 s and I can get this through your teaching ,thank you

[@RizHallowes]

Great to hear, thank you

[@scottdillon1]

Simply put…just pulled guitar out of the closet after 10 years and was looking for a simple tutorial to get started again….fantastic video.

[@RizHallowes]

Awesome to hear, thanks

[@nashdecasias1060]

love shooting things and your video with effective way of concetualizing in a simple maaner

[@sagarthackur726]

Very practical and you take so much effort to make sure the importance of all those little but important nuances is not missed. Please keep it up

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you, I will 🙏

[@Vimrati]

You are great teacher of strumming. It is so easily understandable. I have watched so many videos on strumming but your video stand out. I will watch again and again and practice. Thank you so much for efforts

[@RizHallowes]

You are very welcome, and thank you

[@daviddebiasi2316]

I appreciate your authenticity and willingness to go the extra mile acknowledging at times you’re beating a dead horse for our sake. I’m an advanced intermediate and I definitely learned to see strumming and a bar with greater clarity.

[@RizHallowes]

Thank You! Great to know you got something out of it while being further down the learning track.

[@golpkgfshkpp4114]

Wow! You were the bestest one for Strumming practice routine, I enjoyed very much. God always bless you and your family.❤

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you 🙏

[@scottross1780]

Thanks!

[@RizHallowes]

A massive thank you to you!!!

[@scottjohnson3439]

Very informative tutorial about timing, note counting, and the multiple strum patterns! 🎉🎉🎉😊

[@pituq129]

I like the way you made an example of a bad strum

[@MrGmooney]

Excellent introduction to rhythm, you covered a lot in that lesson.

[@RizHallowes]

Thank You 🙏

[@rubiovaz8988]

Good teacher. God Bless you

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you!

[@TXprimeFishing13]

Thanks for a lot of great info!!! For me, I find it easier to just feel and hear my way through rhythm and strumming instead of thinking Up/Downs. At the moment I’m at the Intermediate Level and the way I’m learning is so much easier than focusing on when I’m supposed to be going Up or Down while strumming. I know everyone learns in different ways so whatever works best for each person. Also, I might add that I played the Drums for many years before learning Guitar so that helps with Rhythm too.

[@RizHallowes]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I was actually the same as you in that it came to me. When I began teaching years ago i put together this lesson in response to the questions and problems students always seemed to be having.

[@TXprimeFishing13]

@@RizHallowes Thanks for the response and I understand. We appreciate you taking the time to help. GOD Bless!!!

[@lindasmith6668]

This was so helpful. I have had such a problem with strumming. Thank you for your video; it really helped me. I will watch it repeatedly. You're a very good teacher. I love all the details you 💛 ❤🎉. Thank you again.

[@RizHallowes]

@@lindasmith6668 thank you!

[@mariadelcarmenmartinez1937]

Thanks!!!! The best rhythmic tutorial I found. ❤🙏🎸🎸

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you!

[@rickknudson8105]

Best strumming video I’ve seen. Thank you very much.

[@RizHallowes]

Thank You!

[@raymobbs732]

Great video well done, Looking forward to the advanced rhythm lesson .. Thanks

[@RizHallowes]

@@raymobbs732 thank you, coming soon!

[@johannesdevries7003]

Great practise 💪😀. 66 Here started one year ago. Super helpfull👍

[@RizHallowes]

Keep it up!

[@rexbenemerito1943]

Best lesson on strumming. Thanks

[@RizHallowes]

Many thanks

[@YatinDeo]

It was an amazing lesson. I am practising strumming and and found this. I learnt a lot from it. 🙏

[@RizHallowes]

Great to know, thank you!

[@gankeepoon5647]

😮wow! Thank for your great teaching, I had been looking for this quite sometime, on time just found it. Thank you alot

[@RizHallowes]

You're very welcome

[@gankeepoon5647]

Excellent job

[@royal8334]

Love the humor... Thanks for the lesson brother

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you 🙏

[@vfam5860]

cool - this helps a lot - beginner dude here, and I appreciate the video - my kids can benefit from it too.

[@RizHallowes]

Great to hear!

[@kennunes4913]

Super tutorial Riz...and thank you for taking the time to share... :)

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you

[@samspade3227]

Well done, enjoyed your lesson.

[@RizHallowes]

@@samspade3227 thank you

[@zihadchowdhury8672]

Thank you so much absolutely fantastic, please send us more videos god bless your little world

[@RizHallowes]

@@zihadchowdhury8672 thank you so.much 🙏

[@miketrew9715]

Great lesson like the breakdown of the techniques required very informative thank you so much for posting this Greetings fae Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you from Australia!

[@ketantank159]

Awesome explanation thanks for your your valuable knowledge

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you!

[@YamnathSapkota]

What an amazing soul you are ❤️❤️

[@RizHallowes]

Thank You! You sound like an amazing soul yourself.

[@DennisBrosnan-q9l]

Thank you very much. Very well presented.

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you!

[@billmenz7113]

Very informative, thank you. Great teaching style....

[@RizHallowes]

@@billmenz7113 thank you

[@LLewis-vu9qf]

I find it annoying to the max that hitting D D U U D U D seems sooo much more difficult (for me) than skipping the Up strokes. 🙄 I did finally get it, sort of, but it took me a LOT longer than I thought it should have. And still working on it to make it more consistent and fluid. A REALLY informative video, especially the 16th time strum. 😊

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you! Hope it helped you

[@88738nicoleforrest]

Great lesson 👏

[@RizHallowes]

@@88738nicoleforrest thank you!

[@robertwynne5944]

You are hands down the best beginners guitar teacher here on TY. I've watched all of your theory courses, and I know which notes and chords sound good together, but I don't know why. There maybe no answer to the why. Maybe they just do. Do you use or follow a book, and if you do could you share it with us?

[@RizHallowes]

Humbled an honored, thank you! I don't follow a book, it's just decades of teaching and playing. I think you'll find a point down the line where it all clicks into place and you just simply 'understand it'. At that point books will just be repeating to you what you already know.

[@dmc949]

Great lesson. Many thanks. Dave.

[@RizHallowes]

@@dmc949 thanks Dave 🙏

[@brianodonnell586]

Hi Could you do a video on Chord Progressions for beginners?? Great Strumming video. Many thanks.

[@RizHallowes]

Good idea, will do 👍

[@brianodonnell586]

Many thanks 👍👍

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you too.

[@davidb0064]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you

[@hansrayap]

❤so so helpful. Thnks

[@RizHallowes]

@@hansrayap thank you

[@JustBillyLoL]

God bless you sir Great help thank you 🙏

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you

[@celtusthomas9016]

Good job bro. Thanks a lot for that lesson 😅…

[@RizHallowes]

@@celtusthomas9016 thank you

[@fobsalerno9354]

It was the best! Thank you

[@RizHallowes]

@@fobsalerno9354 thank you

[@michaelkneale3825]

Best strumming video I have seen so far, Thanks

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you!

[@sermapandian8292]

Good lesson

[@RizHallowes]

Thank you

[@darrenslater8186]

Great video thanks

[@jobertanson2978]

Thank you

[@RizHallowes]

You're welcome. And thank you too

[@donnakebabmat5413]

Thanks bro.

[@RITAVILA-f6l]

Thanks, this is very helpful.

[@RizHallowes]

Great to hear, thanks!

[@GodsStoryteller]

You a a gifted teacher. Subscribed. Looking to have a strum pattern that incorporates fast and slow in a song, where the chorus change d.

[@RizHallowes]

@@GodsStoryteller thank you very much. Yep I'm going to keep putting out more and more advanced strumming vids until people say "enough, we're all brilliant now!"

[@pauldavid7202]

Thank you!!!

[@RizHallowes]

And thank you!

[@belladonnelly8063]

Thank you so good I’m a newbie

[@RizHallowes]

Excellent, welcome aboard!

[@paulmcnamara9296]

Great video. Just subscribed. Do I need to use a metronome or not when practicing

[@RizHallowes]

It would probably help but not necessary if you are pretty good at staying in time. They are a nice way of measuring your progress though as you speed up. It would probably be useful for you if you grab one and use it, even if not all the time

[@TorrentFiend10]

Perhaps I had an advantage because I was in band as a trumpet player and drummer since 5th grade...... But if you can't intuitively feel a strumming pattern without having to be taught how to strum the rhythm you hear...... I kind of feel like you have no business playing guitar because there are much larger problems with your feel of music in general that will always plague you. This is probably a biased opinion because without a doubt all of that band experience in my past makes things like this not a problem. I'm able to naturally feel the music where maybe not everyone else is able to the way I do...... But something like strumming a pattern you hear is mostly a natural instinct sort of thing most musicians should be able to feel and very accurately mimic. If you can't then you are not a musician. The primary thing you need for strumming is how many beats do you hold each chord usually. Slightly more advanced things like up strums or Ghost notes etcetera is also a thing you should be able to feel or hear so you can easily and intuitively copy. Watched this out of curiosity and I'm happy to say luckily nothing mentioned in this article are any problems I have with my playing.

[@liberalsrmentallyflawed3611]

Where many are slow to get the understanding for rythum guitar. You were in the same place, with a band instrument when you first started..

[@Rick-b6u]

You didn't mention using a metronome with this. What are your thoughts on a metronome

[@RizHallowes]

Hi there, sorry for late reply. It's definitely something to use once you are familiar with the strum and don't have to think about it. Then concentrate on getting it in time. I have a follow up vid based around that kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqfLhX96rMmhh7c

[@Cam-wi3tp]

does this just become natural? I mean, it seems like i am concentrating so much on, miss this upstroke, not this one, then miss next,do 2 downstrokes and then an upstroke, that i just get lost in a song trying to count and hit the right strings

[@RizHallowes]

@@Cam-wi3tp yeah it will. When your brain is used to doing hits and misses in the right spot try and just hear the rhythm and play it. Once muscle memory is there you should be able to just hear the rhythm and focus on that instead

[@stevendavls2109]

Can you please teach me the double chop strumming as in Elvis's One Night with you?? That would be awesome thanks

[@RizHallowes]

@@stevendavls2109 I'll have to look that one up, see what I can do

[@NeilBlanco]

1-2-3-4. Comment for the algo…😊

[@RizHallowes]

our old friend the algo

[@christophers9095]

Dude that was my job. 😂

[@RizHallowes]

@@christophers9095 🤣teaching strumming or the algo?

[@Upuia-c4n]

What is algo . Please explain

[@johnpogany2444]

I have more issues with switching chords

[@RizHallowes]

Hi John. The second video has a few tips which may help with that kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3fSg6iHerF8bJI

[@liberalsrmentallyflawed3611]

So, for the total beginner. 1,2,3,4.. is the beat, feel, pulse of a song. The one you nod or clap or tap your foot to when you hear a piece of music..

[@RizHallowes]

@@liberalsrmentallyflawed3611 yep that's right. As an example think of a techno doof song. The doof is on 1 2 3 4

[@mithuchandra3599]

Thank you very much sir, pl send stumming on 3/4 time and others

[@RizHallowes]

Coming soon!

[@nunemain]

Great fucking lesson man…gun effects and all.

[@RizHallowes]

@@nunemain thank you! Glad someone liked them 😅

[@Fred-gi4uz]

Use your metronomes people

[@RizHallowes]

Awesome suggestion, wish I'd put that in the vid

[@hitthebottom]

Your intro theme reminds me of Better Call Saul intro for some reason ? > kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHTRf6CFj7Oaqqs

[@RizHallowes]

😆I guess so. It has that same lazy thing going on. Bwukooomaaaate!

[@mettelyngholm4541]

Thank you!