Basic Strumming Pattern

The difference of strumming and plucking is plucking just sound a few specific strings while strumming is to let several strings sound simultaneously. Once you have know a few chords, here's a practice for you to practice the changing of the chord of your left hand with strumming. Just practice with C Major Key and A Minor Key. Strum by plectrum or finger.

Play according to tempo, increase speed slowly. Accent notes are not crucial at this moment.

Part A, B, C are to show the direction of your right hand. Basically you just have to swing your hand, up and down, and decide which beat you want the guitar to sound. I separated into 2 parts, while the right part I used a tie note to show the beat, as you can see, all the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th beat is down, and 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th is up.

Part D, E should be played by differentiate the bass strings (4th , 5th, 6th strings) and treble strings (1st, 2nd, 3rd strings).

Part F is a slapping technique, just slap your hand onto the string to let it hit on the fret and create the slapping sound.

Part G is a triplets rhythm.

当你学会左手按和弦之后，就能开始这个扫弦练习，根据节拍慢慢加快速度。用弹片或者手指来扫。这个时候加重音还不是那么重要，能够弹出的话也很好。