Strumming WITHOUT a pick- GUITAR lesson with a guitar teacher

[@kerryfromaj9032]

I just recently got another acoustic guitar and this lesson to will add a lot to my new instrument. I was familiar with 3 of your techniques. Thanks Heath.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Great to hear! Thanks for commenting Kerry! Hope you're liking your new acoustic!

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

Thanks for sharing how to strum without a pick using fingers to play down up strokes with varying dynamics to sound better in your guitar rhythms playing techniques.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@daveg5857]

Ooh. I need this lesson! Great topic.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@wallyhustad3686]

Thank you! Appreciate your teaching skills

[@LLewis-vu9qf]

I found this VERY informative. I play a classical guitar, folk music and ballad type songs. My strumming is your 5th beginner sample and it's starting to sound very much same old/same old. I will definitely save this video for future practice. Thanks.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Great, Im glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting!

[@carlryan3936]

Thanks for your lessons. I’m 80 and learning, but very, very slowly.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thats great! Keep having fun with it! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Ishmael1865]

Love your style of teaching!!!❤

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thank you! 😃

[@wfqsfg]

I've been doing the "invisible pick" for decades. I don't remember how I started doing it. I was young. Many times I found myself without a pick nearby so I developed that method. Sometimes I intentionally don't use a pick if I am going to do a complicated or fast strum or alternate finger picking and strumming in a song. I don't like to hybrid pick. My hand is less restricted without having to hold a pick. I usually use two or three fingers for the down strum. The attack sounds better with a pick though.

[@charliesideshow8400]

Great! Thank You very much for the lesson :)

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks! Im glad you liked it! Thanks for leaving a comment!

[@WinnifredJune]

Great video. As for your Boom-Chuck, you explain the thumb pattern well (bass-chord-bass-chord), but where do the upstrokes with the index finger typically fall in? Thanks!

[@jimsliverootsculturemusic]

I think that's when you're a thumb and forefinger only blues player, picking out melodies based on the minor pentatonic scale to provide melody.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Well the upstrokes can come at the same time as the thumb or inbetween. Check out my lesson on Thumb Independence to help with this. Thanks for wathcing!

[@WinnifredJune]

Thanks! I've been practicing to your Thumb Independence video. In A, it covers the thumb string pattern 5-4-6-4. This seems right for C too, thumb strings 5-4-6-4, with a low G in the bass. For D, it's a string up at 4-3-5-3. E must be 6-4-5-4, as is G. That's pretty close, right? Your Thumb Independence video did help overnight as you stated. That's muscle memory for ya. I tend to think of the bass downbeats in A, C, and D as going "high-low". Downbeats in E and G go "low-high".

[@gibaki-qz8cf]

nice lesson

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks!

[@jimsliverootsculturemusic]

If you watch enough John Lee Hooker, you'll see his trigger finger "fast exit", kind of like he's firing a gun at the strings.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Yep!

[@ralphditchburn1456]

Let you know you a smartie

[@donaldgraham8290]

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