Questions tagged [strum]

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Numbered Strum Patterns Indicated On Sheet Music

I can read music or hear music and usually come up with a strum pattern on the guitar. Usually get close enough then perfect over time. However, recently I thought that I would like to get a certain song into the set listing, and when I found some…
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Guitar Fingerstyle "Unravel" pluck or strum?

I'm struggling at a certain part of Eddie van der Meer's arrangement of "Unravel" (timestamped at 1:20) for fingerstyle guitar. You can also find it at 1:32 in this tutorial. It requires to play 16th notes on the high E string at 130 BPM. When I…
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How do you play the down and up strums for syncopated strumming for the guitar?

How do you play the down and up strums for syncopated strumming for the guitar? Like can you start the bar with an up strum even without the rest mark? Or if the bar ends on a sixteenth note down strum, do you go back to a down strum or pick from…
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Interpreting guitar strumming on a piano

I play the piano-keyboard, and I must say I envy guitar players, specially when it comes to strumming techniques. It seems inevitable to compare the two instruments. I think the strumming technique in guitar is more percursive, guitar players can…
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What is the strum pattern in this song?

What is the strumming pattern in We Are Sick(Acoustic) by From Indian lakes