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Originally Posted by MICHAEL MYERS
The accents are more important than any particular pattern.
Try hitting all downstrokes with accents on beats 2 and 4 at first (beats 1 and 3 should be bass notes but you can add that later). The upstrokes are just filler. Once you've nailed the song with solid downstrokes, your upstrokes will fall into place. Just keep listening to the song.
My advice is : don't get hung up on patterns.  |
This.
Eg, if we're talking about Wagon Wheel, which version? There are lots. Do they all have the same strum pattern? If not, which one is "correct"? Does it matter?
Essentially in ALL strum patterns (in 4/4) the hand moves DUDUDUDU (D on the beats, U between, otherwise how do you get to your next D?
). Which strokes
hit the strings (and how hard)? That's kind of up to you.