We covered this pattern already but it's good to start with a warm-up and there are a few other things to be aware of. Most songs wouldn't use this ALL the way through and the few additional ideas will help make your playing sound more varied and interesting.

Taking the standard pattern but adding a few more important elements you'll use time and time again.

Counting 8th notes out in groups of 12312312 puts the emphasis on the rhythm like two dotted notes and a quaver inside a bar. There are lots of examples of this in modern music and you can use it as a tool for your own playing.

Let's dive a little deeper into this strumming pattern we finished with in the last course. These songs have small variations to test your rhythm and left-hand chord changes

Let's try the next popular strumming pattern. On its own its already very versatile but it's true power comes when you change chords in the same bar. The new chord lands just before beat 3 giving it a 'push' feeling used in so many songs

Utilizing some more advanced strumming patterns that focus on accenting the offbeat along the way.

A few more patterns to try out with songs that use very easy and not too many chords.

Taking what we learned in weeks 4 and 5 let's look at some songs that combine both these patterns together