Old Faithful Strumming Pattern

Beginner Grade 1 Module 5: Basic Theory & Strumming Development
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Hi everyone, question about the old faithful strumming pattern,

I see different variations on different videos, is it simply DDUUD or DDU MISS U D, which pattern would it be between these two ? thanks.

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Hi @frizvi, frankly, I don’t see the difference. It looks to me like 2 ways of describing the same pattern. Old faithful is a 4 beat pattern in which you hit every downstrum except for the 3, and the up strums on 2 and 3. So that gives you D_DU_UD_. The ‘miss’ in your second ‘version’ only emphasises that you don’t hit the downstrum on 3, while in the first one it is supposed to be self-evident because of the 2 ups following each other - nothing more.

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