Beginners 5: Strums for Intermediate Beginners

In this class you will play compelling and complex strumming patterns, as you mix bass notes, palm mutes, scratches, and syncopated 16th notes, becoming a confident and expressive rhythm guitar player.

To be confident about what class level is right for you, try playing along with the class graduation videos. If you can play along with the previous graduation video but not with the graduation video for this class, then you're in the right place!

Before your first class, try playing along with the the warm-up video which you will do in every class--there are 9 warm-ups, so be sure to select the correct level. Don't worry about fully understanding or mastering everything, just get used to it. (BTW to maximize your progress, use this video as a warm-up everytime you practice at home, too!)

If you are able to pass the graduation video check out our next class in the series!

Prerequisites:

You have completed Beginners 1, 2, 3 & 4 or are comfortable with basic mixed 8th note and 16th note strumming patterns, rhythm patterns like palm muting and bass strumming and chords including B7, Gadd5, Dm, small barre F, as well as basic open chords