Learning Guitar Scales

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In the previous lesson we've seen the most basic strumming patterns in EX1 and EX 2, in this lesson we're going to move to a more sophisticated ones.


Exercise 3:


ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and      (repeat this)
The first exercise is the play 1 downstroke followed by 1 upstroke with every number
ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and
down        UP        down              UP

Exercise 4:

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         down          UP          down

You have to play these strumming patterns slowly to memorize them and after that you can speed up a little.