Hear any strumming pattern, slow it down, and follow the arrows in real time. Pick a classic below, or tap the boxes to build your own.
Strumming trips up more players than chords ever do, and the fix is almost always the same: your hand should keep moving down and up like a pendulum, every eighth note, forever. The pattern is just which swings touch the strings and which ones miss.
So practice like this: pick a pattern, set the tempo slower than feels necessary, and keep your arm swinging while you match the arrows. When a box is empty, your hand still moves, it just misses the strings. Once it locks in, you will feel the pattern instead of counting it. That is the whole secret.
Then put it to work: loop some chords in the Progression Player and strum along, keep time with the Metronome, or grab new shapes from the Chord Library.
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