Guitar Technique. Strumming. Plucking. Counting. Left Hand Muting. Right Hand Muting.

Guitar Technique

Basic Strumming Pattern and Counting using Metronome

In order to learn strumming
- You need to learn how to count
- You need to know how to identify where are the 1st beat

- 4 beat or 4/4 beat strumming and counting pattern (note subdivision to 8th note and 16th note)
- Triplet beat or 6/8 beat strumming and counting pattern
- Dynamic. Accenting on the down stroke or upstroke


Accenting on the top 3 strings vs the bottom 3 strings
Accenting on the down strokes or up strokes
Accenting using crescento



Advance Guitar Technique

Dynamic: Advance Guitar Technique a lot to do with creating dynamic in a songs.
Dynamic is:
- when to be soft, when to be loud?
- when to slowly take time to build up and how to build up?
- muting and not muting strumming
- when to choke?
- when to syncopate?
- Rhythm recognition of the song in order to play as a band
- strumming on selected strings especially power chord
- filling: 4th beat fill, 1/2 bar fill, 3 beat fill, 1 bar fill, 2 bar fill, 4 bar fill

Muting vs Sustaining a chord or note
- muting is to stop the strings from sustaining or resonating

When to use muting or When to mute the Chord or sustain the chord?

Left Hand Muting: Chord thumb muting, Finger muting



Right Hand Muting. Palm muting
- The muting is done on the down stroke
- Can be 1 string mute, 2 string mute all the way to 6 string mute


Tighten Up Your Strumming

Filling: using different position of the same chord, using scale, using arpeggio



Power Chord, when and how to use
Voicing
Penatonic
Plucking Pattern