The Coolest Strum Ever

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[@PeterByker]

"..and now you can jam!" *strips skin from hands*

[@brubobaggins]

holy crap, I spat out my drink reading this 😂

[@brandonacker]

🤣🤣🤣

[@josesousa272]

Yep...I tried and trimmed down the bones😢

[@fendysusanto876]

​@@brandonackeri use steel strings and actually rip skin close to my nail 😂

[@dzungphan2665]

…To reveal that is indeed a robot hand.

[@markturner2561]

Instructions unclear, a mariachi band spawned in my bedroom

[@McBumbleFlump]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@docwill184]

Perfectly clear...and who doesn't love Mariachi?

[@blackdog6969]

You may have a Q infestation, notify Starfleet immediately

[@thespeculativemusician]

You mean a spanish flamenco band? Cause last time I checked mexican mariachis don’t sound like this at all 🤣

[@giftofthewild6665]

This is flamenco

[@smol_cat]

"Her" - "where did you learn all of this" "Him" - "I play guitar"

[@HarriedPedestrian]

Ha! I get it 😉

[@user-fi6oz5lf3b]

@@HarriedPedestrianthat means that you’re eligible for being the next president of the United States 🇺🇸

[@HarriedPedestrian]

@@user-fi6oz5lf3b Nah, I’m overqualified.

[@PperH3ARTz_luvXD]

​@@user-fi6oz5lf3b KAAAAA🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@MrHumannnn]

I _thought_ I got it, and then I _actually_ got it.

[@luisrios5703]

“My name is inigo montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die” *does flamenco strumming in background*

[@bri-bristhoughts9616]

🤣👏🙌

[@chloe_roblox1034]

Omg the princess bride I love that movie!!!😂😂

[@giov8955]

W reference

[@mutantkoffee]

El señor gonzalez

[@lamtungbenny6214]

Six fingered dude after hearing this: 💀

[@bubbathemaster]

It’s kind of things that look incredibly easy but that will take months of practice to really understand 😢

[@brandonacker]

Yes that's true. It took me months as well but that's a good thing. Don't go for quick and easy gimmicks. The things that are really beautiful and useful take time to develop. When you can do it, you'll be one of the few who can 😊

[@simon4187]

Now you got something to do, turn off youtube and get to work baby 💪

[@finnmcool2]

Thanks for pointing this out. I've been working on this technique on uke and it's slow going. I'm sure the low string tension doesn't make it easier but it sounds so good when you get it right.

[@squidward5110]

I figured it out in just a few minutes but it sounds like shit and im doing it wrong

[@brandonacker]

@@finnmcool2 You're welcome! And actually the lower the string tension the better it is. It was invented on baroque guitar which has half the string tension as a modern guitar and it sounds much better. I actually think it doesn't sound great on modern classical guitars, in comparison.

[@fletchandrews1]

"same as how you open a door" *Flamencos the door off its hinges.

[@helpmereach69subs74]

the fan or the rasgueados

[@terrormilk384]

I just cried out laughing man 😂😂😂

[@Claymann71]

_BEST COMMENT!_ 🤣👏

[@randomguydoes2901]

speeddooring any%

[@keep_walking_on_grass]

That was the shortest lesson for a phenomenal guitar skill. incredible effective.

[@cook.b6285]

Shes gonna love this one

[@sandman6045]

Why wouldn't she 😉

[@SuperTheJake]

This is how you get extra lives on your guitar

[@brandonweinmann5700]

The discipline in years of practice really shows here man.

[@junesuprise]

You see the thing is if it was for discipline no musician would ever get decent at any instrument It’s all about fun No discipline needed Seems like all the people get this wrong

[@brandonweinmann5700]

@@junesuprise I can respectfully agree with that, cause you gotta love it and be obsessed with it so much that you never get bored or never wanna give up

[@WillyJunior]

@@junesuprise this is just not true

[@lulumoon6942]

So basically when he came out of the womb they knew his destiny with those hands! 🎶

[@yourslovingly77]

This may be out of topic but i couldn't help say it because my goodness, you have one of the most prettiest hands I've ever seen.

[@rsjknb6217]

omg i was also thinking about that! i didn't even pay attention to the video his hands were majestic

[@BattleofTrenton]

Like a serial killlers.

[@generic_tag]

@@BattleofTrentondude wtf

[@Eta_Hoyimi]

Its wild, I normally wouldn't even notice something like that but he could legit be a hand model or something. :

[@counterflow5719]

I think he has prosthetic nails for playing.

[@terrormilk384]

Thanks man, i was boutta go to sleep then saw this reel stood up got my guitar and tried this for 10 minutes then gave up and now im mad and cant sleep anymore...😂😂😂

[@spplS.]

Your neighbour: 🫨

[@johntutaki9531]

Hope you got back up and tried it again. Got it sorted yet?

[@seymourtompkins]

well understandable- after all, you did try it for a whole 10 minutes

[@watcherofyoutube9678]

Smh, I’m about to do the same thing 💀

[@Windraver]

11Pm.... Guess I'm going to try too lol

[@dominicmckeough9930]

When he speeds up after showing us how to do it it sounds like a helicopter

[@nomore2226]

I'm a guitarist who uses a pick..... what you just did...is f'n magical. Excuse me now while I try this until my fingers bleed.

[@pbabiesinspace6112]

And the ladies love it too...

[@IsraelCountryCube]

For sex romance sexual love stuff or for simply enjoying music with ears and not body rumuging?

[@alanfarr9624]

A Brazilian guy demonstrated it to me in a bar. I have a video of a girl trying to teach it. I have never cracked it. Just put it aside as one of the things I'll learn one day. 19 years have gone by. Maybe I'll have another try now As he says, it is the coolest strumming technique.

[@mandanglelow1442]

Just think if you wouldn't have given up you'd be a master at it by now.

[@MikeHensley-sc3ns]

You and I are a lot alike..😜🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@temiongcecilio]

That’s some story. Better than a novel coz It's a true story.

[@Beos_Valrah]

​@@temiongcecilioYou don't know if that story is actually true though

[@Mark_135]

@@Beos_Valrah True.

[@chindianajones3742]

This is called Rasgueados. In flamenco, there are various ways of performing it. This one is called abanico. You can also rest your thumb on the 6th string, and flick out your other fingers (a-m-i-i/down-down-down-up) strumming the other strings in a quadruplet pattern. Can also do quintuplet, starting with pinky. It takes a few weeks to get comfortable with it, and many months to get it easy, and a few years to get it sounding really good.

[@aloveofsurf]

❤🎉🙏

[@kathyhollenbach7413]

Your fingers look so rubber'ish and stretched, like octopus

[@gogglespaisano6483]

I’ve not seen rasgueado with upstroke of middle finger. Sounds good. Difficult to incorporate “m” upstroke to my already clumsy abinico 😢😊

[@chindianajones3742]

@@gogglespaisano6483 yeah i rewatchedthe video and saw that he does that. Must be a classical thing smh

[@vilhelmnorberg9265]

Good you pointed it out. It's a shame he only calls it "the coolest strumming technique" as if it's just a gimmick.

[@santinamarie4699]

That was freaking amazing

[@fattyz1]

I’m self taught and something like this developed in my strum by itself .

[@greghenrikson952]

That's some supernatural stuff there.

[@markus-hermannkoch1740]

I know, where I have seen that before! There is that youtuber, Slackanater. The first, perhaps still the only human to truly beat the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) classic 'Ninja Gaiden' without ever taking one hit. At one point that 'no-hit' run requires him to mash two of the controller buttons extremely fast for seven times. He turns the controller by 90 degrees, and does quite accurately this Repicco on that Japanese gaming device. Took him months of intense training. Led him to a unique success in the retro gaming world.

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

That’s how I get all 8 bottles down in Chrono Trigger.

[@TheTonester2312]

Explained well.

[@PurpleBoy-ow5nu]

new skill: unlocked

[@rob1016ny]

I knew never my pinky was adopted until I tried to finger a 7th chord. Been with me my whole life, I had no idea I couldn’t even use it.

[@theacrid9062]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@super-gaming1994]

My name is 7th chord 😩

[@jguitar23]

I started playing as an adult. It took over a year to gain decent pinky control. It takes many muscles you don't use that way for other stuff, but practice really helps with the necessary patience!

[@josslujano7615]

What does adopted mean

[@PsychlerX]

​@@josslujano7615his pinky feels as though it is not biologically connected

[@shibity]

this guy really has immaculate technique.

[@andrewballance4161]

Elegant demonstration. Impeccable performance. I still can't do this. Hahahaha. Good stuff

[@kronigen]

bro just turned his hand into a helicopter

[@neonblack211]

this is my favorite too, super important for flamenco

[@francius3103]

this is hard asf

[@AreEnTee]

Take it slow and be consistent Sincerely, A classical guitarist

[@blurryface9910]

This was such a good demonstration that I feel like I can actually learn this pretty quickly!

[@rnjesus9950]

Wish I could like this multiple time. Best video I’ve seen randomly scrolling shorts in a while.

[@Planet.Denver]

THANK YOU! I NEEDED THIS LESSON!

[@joblo2671]

Great job on the slowing and speeding up...that takes real talent.

[@LongShowerz42]

Thanks Tobey!

[@124th_Trigger]

Bros hands became a helicopter

[@grouchypotatowolfpack5580]

If I could figure out how to double thumb, this would work great for slap bass.

[@shanewise7625]

And now it's the coolest strumming technique I've ever seen!! Thanks bro!

[@user-xt8zp9xs8z]

Learning the strum❌ Staring at the hand✅

[@rsjknb6217]

sameee

[@stuckfart]

dang your hands are gorgeous

[@berndtherrenvolk1951]

This is one of the creepiest comments on the internet.

[@hisky.]

​@@berndtherrenvolk1951wtf are you 12

[@evadebruijn]

​​@@hisky.No it is just his first day reading comment sections

[@ruri637]

💀

[@ShotoTodoroki-qr1zy]

i was waiting for this comment

[@brunogasparoto7150]

Now I need these chords to sound that good 😢

[@Boostiverse]

I gotta break it to you man, it’s not the chords that are making it sound bad

[@AllGuitarCovers1]

@@Boostiverse😂

[@depshallburn]

Try anything in harmonic minor or even just regular phrygian. At the least, you can always do the i, vii.

[@mandanglelow1442]

​@@depshallburnHow about ANY chord? Any chord at all. Its rhythm and nothing more.

[@briank326]

Pick a key, do iv-III-II-I. Prefer chord voicings that only involve 3-4 strings, but instead of muting the other ones, let them ring away. You now know how to play vaguely flamenco-sounding stuff

[@Dataclysm]

If I don't hear this in a Tapatio commercial, I'm not eating spicy food anymore.

[@michaelkilgore]

I missed you! You haven’t come up in my feed in so long… your videos are so informative AND entertaining which is not easy to do lol

[@spncryang]

Gonna use this for some black metal

[@cartermccart]

Racism

[@depshallburn]

This is pretty much the timbre you get from butterfly picking, in stuff like Immortal. Cept it's way more raw and powerful for this context.

[@mandanglelow1442]

​@@depshallburnButterfly picking?

[@erikavery1105]

🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@mandanglelow1442]

Like Living Colour. 😂

[@n0dabody]

Thank you! I've been wanting to learn this for a while now.

[@Banzo_]

Wow it's not click bait, it is indeed really cool

[@melinarodriguez8395]

Wow! What a wonderful effect!

[@johnli9860]

Not sure if this is the coolest strumming technique but you're for sure the most beautiful guitarist I've seen!

[@primaverage]

opa!

[@Yuorai]

Don't fall for it. He's a vampire

[@Numocron]

Wow man this sounds amazing I love it❤️😍🥰🎶🎸

[@shantanubhow]

His veins when playing fast 😮

[@xeechav4538]

That was a clean AF open to closed! Really smooth transition! It's like a double stroke roll for a drummer

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

Dub ble Bub ble Par a did dle Dub ble Bub ble Par a did dle

[@mandanglelow1442]

Thats simply because EVERYTHING in music is about RHYTHM...Everything.

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

@@mandanglelow1442 With rhythm, note sequences that sound like nonsense the first time through make sense the second time through; but without rhythm, any note sequence is merely spelling out the word instead is speaking it. Indeed.

[@mandanglelow1442]

@@TarzanHedgepeth Without rhythm notes are just sounds. Rhythm is the foundation of everything. Even Earth spins to the rhythm of the galaxy.

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

@@mandanglelow1442 indeed!

[@adamcai4815]

I just gave it a try, wow it’s a lot harder than I thought!

[@ZeddtheBarbarian]

My wife loves this technique...

[@carlosgsantiago]

Parkening does this the best in his rendition of the Adagio in Concierto De Aranjuez.

[@AdamCulp]

Thanks for slowing it down. Awesome technique.

[@tosuto.official]

Wow. This is game changing

[@arthurtigreat8929]

It is really similar to the rasgueado "abanico" in flamenco. abanico means fan in spanish so it fits haha

[@IvanskiYakinovski]

This is the sweep that’ll get you across the Rio Grande

[@bardfinn]

It’s very much the way bodhran players move the drumstick, the tipper - same arm / wrist motion, to get downstrokes & upstrokes.

[@brandonacker]

Yes! I noticed the same thing.

[@DavidDevero]

​@@brandonackerIs also very much like a technique used in playing handpan, although I think many players use the ring or pinky.. but after seeing this, I really wonder if it is the thumb and middle finger that is used just like here. Just beautiful! Also, you making the train talk!

[@topa1798]

you are the coolest Brandon!!!!

[@Ratguitar58]

Thank you! I've been learning some Spanish flamenco techniques and i believe this is one of them . Very 😎 cool! 👍

[@KateCarew]

Oh to be so skilled as to make the impossible look east!

[@macgum6985]

Me applying this on my acoustic guitar and literally getting shredded

[@evankrause5269]

This is a flamenco technique called Abenico Rasgueados

[@wiciu6997]

I confirm, nothing special 😅

[@poob2372]

​@@wiciu6997everything flamenco is special. it's awesome

[@s.e.n3264]

Bro knows how to use his hands 😏

[@CloudingITS]

the fingerum

[@DanielSilva-qi2ip]

Furious Flamenco

[@amigosXcorrespondenc]

Thanks mate, I never used it before but I saw it from Rodrigo and Gabriela. Didnt know how it worked. Thanks again, timorrow I will practice it.

[@metihoseini906]

Aaah I was lookong for this technique since forever man thank you 🙏🏻 now I guess it takes the other half of my life to master it.

[@antoshash]

Thanks a lot! thirty-three years ago I saw this technique in a Gypsy Kings video and tried unsuccessfully to understand how they do it! finally! You demystified it for me!

[@bradleymonroe6443]

Now I feel like playing even more flamenco music on the guitar with this strum.

[@usersless]

simply genius

[@matthewreese7710]

I practiced this for like 10 minutes and I already have a blister on my thumb. Sounds really cool though!

[@fraustpunk]

Thank you. When you've been playing for 20 years, it's always nice to learn something new and cool.

[@DannyEye2704]

Glad this one popped up! Thanks bro

[@rickysebastian6386]

I heard this kind of strum quite often but always failed to do it myself because I don't know the proper technique, until I saw this! Thanks, Brandon

[@fivefingerfullprice3403]

just beautiful, I know what I'm working on next.

[@georgejlynch6653]

You’re Tha Best 🥹

[@Gojo_Satoro.]

"This is the hand she wants"💀

[@ManonFernando]

Thank you for the technique Brandon

[@cking1340]

Is this from Flamenco? Ben woods did a similar thing with the thumb and index finger haha

[@brandonh.441]

Yup, its a basic strum in Flamenco

[@andydalbolguitar]

Ben used the flamenco strumming technique called Rasgueado Abanico. It can be translated as strummed fan. That technique is a rolling triplet strum. What Brandon showed in the video is called Repicco. This is a rolling quadruplet strum and it originated on the Baroque guitar. These two strumming techniques not the same but are very similar even though they have different origins. Cool stuff!

[@coryrider7965]

This is so cool. Comming from a drummer, this is bassicly a double stroke roll. Amazing the parrallels

[@jacobcarrizales427]

Something you did here that I think is very instructive and helpful when learning this is to mute the strings. It’s a bit easier to hear that you’re doing it correctly that way. I learned this on the ukulele years and years ago. That door knob turning idea is basically just how you strum them so it was pretty easy to pick up.

[@DrJohn-rl9zg]

Hey Brandon, a lot off topic, but you might enjoy reading about Liz Cotten's folk guitar technique. She played left-handed so she pulled the melody (treble), with her thumb, and her fingers pulled the bass. Search: How Elizabeth Cotten's music fueled the folk revival. (NPR) Just for interest, I heard from Pete Seeger's neighbor, while waiting a train in Greenville, SC, that Pete's wife, Toshi, had passed. A few months later I learned that Pete had passed from a woman in a hostile we were at, who was just hired for the Smithsonian. Her first assignment was to build a display honoring Pete Seeger.

[@SantoshSingh-nu5uw]

The veins on his hand say everything❤.

[@eissegn]

Didn't know that Aemond Targaryen plays guitar this good

[@lucasartistaoficial]

Perfect technique bro. Thank you ❤

[@phillipjordan1010]

That is my Flamenco technique. I actually just use the thumb but put alot of velocity on the strum

[@itsthem5699]

that's just called strumming really fast

[@phillipjordan1010]

@@itsthem5699 yes true but that is how I learned on my own without any instruction. Just listened to Spanish music and tried recreate the sounds. I've tried to do it with the proper Flamenco technique but I'm just to set in my style

[@DJC-1004]

Sounds awesome..

[@petergreen6613]

This is guitar hero rake strumming in real life

[@SlyHikari03]

Someone show this to rob scallon..

[@TealScarab]

Having seen Brandon and Rob’s video on the history of guitar, I have a slight suspicion that Rob already knows this technique (really well at that!!)

[@deadbodyseena]

Thank you for the lesson Count Dracula .

[@shayadrai6555]

Trust me this strumming is legendary, there are a lot of things u can do with this style. I have tried with my boo, down down up up damn

[@mjcs6399]

Filed in 'Simple Looking Things That Are Actually Physically Impossible'

[@Strange_and_Paradise]

Your girlfriend is lucky 😂

[@ryoren887]

My gf will love it 😂

[@aayanbaig4775]

rasgueados! i love doing this

[@Thisdudeunderneathmeiscool]

The Veins 😮

[@JavierARamos-ql3dj]

"Wow you have really veiny forearms." "I love strumming my wood." 😂😂😂

[@patbrennan6572]

this is how John Lennon played all my lovin.