Hey, I’ve been using this app/site for about a year or so when I picked a guitar up for the literal first time of my life, currently on Grade 1, kinda between modules 5 and 6 (yeah I’m slow learner I know. I spent a lot of time struggling with my strumming, which I still do to an extent, but that’s not the point here.
What I’ve been wondering lately is that in the app in the play along feature there are songs that are marked under the “on the beats” strumming patter and the diagram for it shows a down strum for every of the 4 beats. “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran comes to mind right now. So my question is, does that literally mean doing a downstream every single beat? Or only on those beats where there is a chord circle shown in the app? Cus on hand the diagram shows every beat but a lot of the songs with that pattern sound awful when I strum like that, instead of only hitting the beats that are marked with chords.
So yeah, what do I make of this?