I am working on a few things strumming being one of them. I am having some troubles trying to work out if a song has a 1 bar or 2 bar strumming pattern , or if it is in 1/16 notes or what ever.
The song for example I am working on is ‘are you gonna be my girl’ jet.
Now I can play the strumming pattern which I have as
d d d d(muted) u u ududu
I just listened to the song, I think I count just a regular 4/4 beat.
But I for the life of me can’t work out how to get this strumming pattern in a count.
Would love some help.
Hey @bkennedy74 , depending on how long you’ve been doing this sort of thing, getting the counts for patterns like this can be tricky. Here’s what I hear:
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
D D D D U U U D U D U
I’ve written this out as 1 bar with 16th notes. It suppose it could also be written as a 2-bar pattern with 8th notes.
oh my god… Ok great so it was 16th’s… I thought that it had to be because I was almost 90% sure it was 1 bar strumming pattern.
You are a legend. I haven’t been doing it long enough to be confident in my answers, but this helps so much… thank you
I think something that was tripping me up was I couldn’t place the 3 . I mute the 4th down strum and then come straigh back up for the up strum, but then while I put my hand back down to do the first up, I forget that technically it is a down strum to ‘get to that point’ whic was that beat 3…
Here’s a tip: with a 16th-note pattern, the up strum will almost never be on the beat or on the “and” – they will generally fall on the “e” and “a” of the count. The beat and the “+” will generally be down strums.
Same idea for 8th note patterns: down strums on the beat, up strums on the “+”.
