How To Find The Strum Pattern For A Song On Your Own | HOW TO PLAY Q&A Ep. 2 | Guitar Lessons

[@edwill62]

I believe learning different strumming patterns is what most all people have difficulty with...especially beginners....and Intermediate players

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey Ed. You're right. I get more questions about strumming than anything else. It's definitely a challenge in the beginning. That's why I feel if you can pick up the 3 patterns I teach that are super easy and get some songs under your belt with those, then you will begin to get the feel for strumming in general.

[@edwill62]

Thanks Jonathan

[@patsmith378]

And this is the only video I’ve found explaining it

[@beyondgirl]

In this video I learnt many stuff. The most interesting is that we should strum DOWN on the beats and UP in between beats. I am just trying to learn some music using internet and this video was helpful!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

I'm glad to hear it helped you out!

[@saythenameseventeen3852]

thank you so much, i’m fairly new to the guitar and i’ve been struggling with this, i’ve learnt a lot from your videos, keep up the good work !

[@punitkk7696]

So informative.. I was trying to make random patterns playing U sometimes on the beat but it also sounded weird... Now I know what was wrong.

[@amirfraser8888]

Wow, never i have been to a guitar lessons, as i cant afford, but your tutorial has been a life changing to my musical learning path. I love your cheat sheet! Keep up the awesome work bro. I will been keeping an eye to all your upcomimg videoz. Thank you very much man! Much love from Australia!

[@cajunoutlaw1957]

Jonathan, I am so glad that I came upon your lessons . Thank you soooo much!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome, Karl!

[@souffled]

You are blessed as you have a very pleasant voice to go with your guitar !

[@Wandasbeautifulbling]

Thank you so much for the cheat sheets, What a great lesson I have learned so much just from this one video!

[@muhammadhammadkhan9388]

I learned a lot from your videos bro you are doing awesome...

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks! I'm glad to hear it.

[@denisvaudrey7366]

Thanks a lot for this great lesson, I learned a lot. Denis from France

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey Denis, you're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful for you!

[@ickster23]

Wow, that was a quick answer! Many thanks. There was a lot of info in that 19 minutes. I'll admit, I've didn't get the second example as 3 beat. I thought it was 2 beat pattern :-( I'll work on that. I found your discussion on using variations of chords at the end interesting, as I often use B7 over the Bsus from you chord chard. Moving from E to B7 was something I learned early, so it's in my comfort zone. Of course, moving out of your comfort zone is where you learn :-) Thanks again! BTW, nice song writing!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed it. Just FYI, you won't find a 2 beat pattern song (that would just be a 4 beat pattern cut in half). When trying to decipher, start with trying a 4 beat, then 3 beat, then you can try 8 or 6 (which are related to 4 and 3 as they are just double). But even if there were a 2 beat pattern, try to fit 2 beats into that song in the lesson. It won't fit with the beats evenly spaced. That's going to be your deciding factor. The beats need to be evenly spaced. Yea, B7 works great for this song, and similar country folk type songs, like "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

[@abrigospardos]

@@SimplifiedGuitar Why does Song 2 seem to me like a common time song with a triplet feel?

[@evelynbell6336]

This video was so helpful. Thank you

[@elisaul2006]

Thanks 🙏🏽 great lesson and your songs really sound good 😎🎸

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@benitadsilva852]

Extremely helpful thank you very much

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

I'm glad you found it useful!

[@mannyr1709]

You deserve a like and subscribe. Awesome video!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks!

[@silbalinnongbri3630]

Hi sir I began to understand the beat when I watch your videos

[@gemmadimangan2390]

Great help for a beginner like me. Thank you very much

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're very welcome!

[@lewiduressa]

So so so so helpful! Thank you brother and may God bless you abundantly!! I have subscribed to your channel!

[@andrewwarrick4325]

This has helped me tremendously thanks so muchf

[@0502Lin]

Great Help; especially with the twitchiness...I find myself tapping more...looking for the beat everywhere I go...and I super appreciate the highlight on transposing...wow...super thanks for that!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're very welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@waynehartigan3021]

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated..

[@t.malsawmt.malsawm1617]

U r really good.pliz keep making these strumming pattern tutorial .You just got a new subscriber

[@hiyoutube4733]

A great lesson OC... nd idk y no one is talking about ur record, it was good tooo

[@lisabrunt4181]

Thank you so much more for me to learn!

[@teripettit6254]

Thanks

[@hermanhelmich]

Start at 09.30 Like the songwriting

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[@donniesasser6143]

Great Great lesson. Learned a lot today. Thank you.

[@kenrosloniec9546]

Ok so for the song "Welcome to my world" by Jim Reeves. How many beats is this, I'm trying to learn. I can't tell if it's 3 or 4. It is using a G, C, D7, G Thanks Ken

[@krisdaporaristakessian7660]

In a 4/4 signature 4 beats Each beat get patterns or one pattern in each measure.

[@Bicyclekelly]

Jonathan, thanks man for the helpful lesson on strum patterns. I do have a question though. I am intrigued by your chord family variations. How do I get that sheet that you showed in this video?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey, you can get the cheat sheet here: simplifiedguitar.com/3-step-guide

[@irinarostova7958]

Very useful tutorial and can you play Country road by John Denver?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKa4l32Yq7Jlq9k

[@erdogan330]

thank you very much great lesson.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome!

[@rickpalmer3340]

Hi excellent video, thanks. Can you determine a/the strumming pattern for a song from the music notation on the song sheet? eg if you had a measure with one quarter note followed by 6 eighth notes, would the strumming pattern not be: D DU DU DU? Or am I being to simplistic?

[@kevinfrench4529]

Hey Jonathan good lesson. I struggle with this exact problem and this lesson helped a lot. How about "Make it with you" or "Baby Im a want you" by Bread as a lesson. I've tried to play them but struggle to put a strum pattern to them

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey Kevin, glad to know the lesson helped. I'll add your suggestions to the list to draw from. Take care!!

[@jeffa9355]

Strumming pattern for the song You Don't Miss Your Water

[@syedkabir8248]

Thanks a lot. It was really helpful..

[@ForzaGuy15]

Hi, it's great way to learn strumming, thank you so much.

[@johannabothma7217]

Hi thank you for the valuable advice you are giving. I am learning to play guitar and would like to know the strumming for what a faithful God have I please

[@jamescook7389]

The B7 is so difficult to do, and to deaden the 6th string while using it, I can't get my thumb over the neck to reach it. So how can I deaden it?

[@vladimirkrustev309]

Use your middle finger

[@XNOPDASH-zx3su]

Do you use your foot while playing guitar

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

If you mean tapping your foot while playing, I do most of the time.

[@kathrynlangva1634]

I cannot get into the strumming course I signed up for October 2022 help!

[@ForzaGuy15]

I have a question for you about chords, how do you get to know when it's time to change the chord also which chord should be used of the same key?

[@Zakk_Ross]

What do you mean with the second half of the question? What chord should be used of the same key confuses me

[@annamariehewitt3173]

I have never looked for a strum pattern to a song....If I want to learn a new song, I listen to Melody Line and Tempo and adapt that to my own unique strum..It works 98% of the time...Like you say,"There's no one way to play a song."......

[@wunderino9529]

Huh... I've always figured out strumming patterns on my own; i've never really followed the the strumming pattern guide to any song. Though I have tried plenty of times to follow accordingly, it just makes it SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult, i feel. I always just practise until it starts to feel and sound natural. Does anyone feel the same way? Any tips for learning to how become better at following tabs, sheet music and instructional music?

[@memoryland6806]

Can you please teach a strumming pattern on This is amazing grace.?

[@jimmymatuguina5752]

Can u play the strummimg pattern of a song never my love by the association pls i just wanna know

[@celestesand4133]

What would I use for "Open the gates" ?

[@iiberatafernandes8296]

How to find chords

[@KavemanBro]

Mate you were going then got to complicated with all the B 7/ E 7. ???

[@kevinlogan927]

I m not a beginner.answer the questions please

[@jgoole]

Why take the time to go off on a tangent about transposing when the topic is strumming patterns?

[@jonathanrazon450]

Can I ask for the strumming pattern of song "ang sarap mong magmahal by night shift", begginer lang po kasi ako and nahihirapan ako sa strumming. Maraming salamat po. 😁👍

[@emilestopare6261]

transposing cheat sheet

[@manlungl]

The second song sounds 4 beat to me.

[@ylanlaus8000]

Why guitar was invented! Ouch ouch ouch (banging my head) 😭😭😭😭😭!

[@alexkarasz6186]

Nice job. But less talk more strum

[@csranch2000]

2nd one still sounded like a four beat song.

[@maximeg8988]

tips: when the beat is slower, it usually sounds like a 3 beat

[@abrigospardos]

To me it sounded like a 4 beat song with a triplet feel, but I could be wrong.

[@kevinlogan927]

Way confusing

[@Mulberry2000]

This video is terrible, you should of started with just the guitar instead of pushing your own music. Also the music is too loud, so you got four things goinng on. Listening to the music , listening to you ,watching the beats of your hand and dealing with the noise the music makes. The beats did not match the music and we have only your word on it. You should of counted the beats out instead of making it hard for people to do the above. The video overwhelms people.

[@Mulberry2000]

@Keiliany Sanchez-Medina I do not give a toss when it was done. If put stuff online u get people commentating. If he or you do not like it then do not put on stuff u tube. The lesson is poor and it does not solve what he is trying to. Criticism is the key here and we learn from it, now if you do not like criticism then you will not learn. I said the same 2 years ago and it is not changed one bit.

[@Mulberry2000]

@Keiliany Sanchez-Medina I say what I want to say if you do not like it tough

[@pauldank3453]

@Keiliany Sanchez-Medina man you Hit him so Bad he hasn't responded yet

[@varunraj4490]

Waste of time

[@ziblot1235]

dont undd what is so difficult. Unless you are just completely tone deaf unmusical.Do you know how to tap your feet? Clap yur hands, can you listen to the drum? Quit trying to make guitar playing "brain surgery' IT AINT!.. There are some complicated things, but they arent related to being able to "keep the beat".I am not trying to be condesending. Dont make it harder than it has to be!

[@davids9885]

Omg you talk too much just get to the point and stop repeating yourself a million times.

[@Mulberry2000]

Just knowing the beat or time of the song does not give you the strumming pattern, because there many variations to it. Me know a song is in 4/4 (wow most western songs are ), is not going to help! Me knowing its 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & is not going to help. Why? I can come up with (D= Down U = UP) DU DU DU D or D D U U DUDU sure its as strum pattern but it is not the right one. Its the right one that matters not my interpretation. Its idiotic if we have to guess the strum pattern by spending hours listening to the song . Why not go the whole hog and guess the chords as well after all there are many variations and the artist does not know :). Its stuff like this which give musicians a bad name. "Oh i know the strum pattern and i can figure it but i not telling." In my view when i see a song with no strumming pattern i just walk away, I have not enough time to reinvent the wheel. Its just plain arrogance of musicians when they do not put the pattern for their song on there. Some guy was selling his stuff i said where is the strum pattern ? Ans: find it yourself i said bye and he lost a sale. Oasis adds strumming patterns in there song books. Basically musicians need to get their heads out of their arses and start being more open, if not remain smug and poor.

[@drgnslyr1962]

Sometimes there isn't a set strum pattern. Playing music is more about the feel and the groove than about strum patterns. If you ask a musician what strum pattern they are playing they probably won't be able to tell you because they honestly don't know. They aren't thinking about strum patterns they are simply playing.

[@szczerzo]

Universal Music Group don't want you to know the strum pattern, chords, tabs, for a song that don't exist since 70's. Because - who the fuck know they have their "money" reason and no one should know about it.

[@Mulberry2000]

Most do not know line - is just talking crap. Yes they would because they have learnt it and teach it to the rest of the group, ie the original artist would know or have some idea how to do it. You need a foundation to build up on, ie one teaches a child to walk not run. Now the ones who cannot communicate it must be especially dense no wonder they are not a success. i think its an excuse to make money, as people who want a strumming pattern or how to do it never show it. Its the old question do not let the plebs know and keep music mysterious. That is now the English lost their folk music, but its coming back now etc. Well they did this with reading and writing now look at how that has worked out. Lol even the plebs can learn to do it and get degrees. its just a sign of elitism . Lol and behold give people the know how to sing and play musical instruments, they can. Lol and behold give people a chance to make programs and put them out there and THEY CAN DO IT. KZbin etc. Did you know most people can learn to sing if only people would teach, if your not tone deaf its possible to do so, same with any instrument. I watch videos on this kind of stuff, and they say well listen to the song, sure you can get up some kind of strumming pattern, but i am not interested in making my own up., I am not interested in a generic lesson how how to strum, but how to find a strum pattern listening to a song. ie this for example kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGW9mqOBma5kqbs. However the guy goes on about how to find out strumming patterns by knowing a few oops ie the folk pattern. The point here is not having to learn some, to do some but not knowing how to do it in the first place leaves the person at a lose and then the musician acts like he is Einstein and gets a punch on the nose for his efforts. It just leads tor frustration when people talking in jargon for no effect.

[@richwiz2]

I guess there always has to be an arrogant twat-waffle in every crowd.

[@RealPartySongs]

Mulberry2000, I totally agree with you. Also, getting those "musicians" to teach us how to write strumming patterns for songs/tabs that don't have any is like pulling teeth.

[@jungleebushcraft]

Talk too much and you'll find the patern...

[@iamlegend9800]

Hey Your First Song ... I Would Like To Find It, I Am A Believer Myself ,Would You Be Generous Enough To Give Me A Title?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey Marcos, I you talking about the song I played during this tutorial? If so, I actually don't have it online. Maybe that's something I need to work on.

[@iamlegend9800]

Beloved I Have Ears That Hear And Understood Everything You Were Speaking About ... I Would Love To Have A Copy

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