Learning Guitar Scales

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If you want to learn strumming you have to begin with the most basic patterns and move to the more complicated ones and here are some exercises that you can make use of to improve your strumming.

 
 Exercise One:

As i told you before you can use a metronome or even count in you head if you don't have one and the count will go like this:

ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and      (repeat this)
The first exercise is the play a downstroke with every number
ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and
down       down          down           down

Notice that you can repeat this 3, 4 or even 10 times, and you can fret a chord or just play open strings.

Exercise Two:

ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and      (repeat this)
The first exercise is the play an upstroke with every number
ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and
 UP            UP              UP               UP