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How Tied Notes Work When Strumming - Guitar Strumming Patterns

playing technique Feb 27, 2021

How tied notes work when strumming is a lesson that every beginner guitar player needs to know. Hey rock stars, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another free beginner guitar lesson for you. Today I'm going to break down how to tie two notes together when playing a strum pattern. Even though I'm doing this on an acoustic guitar in the video, this of course applies on electric guitar as well. One of the first guitar lessons for beginners that most guitar players go through is how to strum a guitar & learning guitar strum patterns for beginners. But over the years of being a guitar teacher & helping students learn guitar & play guitar, tied strums always seems to be somewhere that people get hung up on. Strumming guitar well & being able to effortlessly play tied notes is essential when learning how to play guitar. So today's tied strumming tutorial will help you by breaking down strumming tips for guitar that will make playing tied notes when strumming simple & easy for you.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:42 - What is a tie?

1:31 - Example #1

2:33 - Building up to an awesome strum pattern

8:11 - Ties between measures

12:00 - Sing the strum pattern

14:04 - Review & wrap up

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A lot of the advice on what to do when you start learning guitar comes from the thinking "That's how I learned, so everyone must learn that way", but that isn't always the best advice.

I'll help you with 10 kinda counter-intuitive things you should learn on guitar first that will give you the most bang for your buck so that you can go from being a beginner to feeling like a confident guitar player that wows your friends in less time.