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January 22, 2026, 9:41am
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Hi @virokbr , your question comes up from time to time and I struggled with it myself in the past. Lots of good comments already made in this thread, but I thought I’d list some of the other threads on the same topic, which might also be helpful:
Hi
I’ve been learning guitar for over a year now. Late starter in my 40s after trying once before a couple of decades ago but I’m not sure I’m not a little lost again.
I actually worked through the first 5 modules fairly easily. I have A, D, E, G, Am, Em down but have stopped myself moving on as i don’t know if my approach is structured enough because I can’t actually play a song that’s recognisable.
I can play a Horse With No Name and strum along to simple songs on the app Like Born in the U…
I had a real life lesson about strumming dynamics – something I’ve learned in Justin’s strumming course – and thought I would weigh in on what I discovered.
I was listening to a solo electric guitar player – playing a nice semi-hollow 335 – while he was singing and playing in front of a group of people at this club. He was good. Some nice lead runs, mixing up the chords. Far better than I will ever be.
But after two songs I found myself bored.
I started taping my foot to the beat and I realiz…
Hi there!
I wanted to share my experience so far to see if I can get any decent insight from others .
one the one hand I have been memorizing my chords and trying to use them to play songs but every time I try to learn a song using chords, it just ends up sounding very generic and very difficult to even distinct which song it is.
in addition a lot of chord tabs don’t have the strumming pattern available and as a beginner its still very difficult for me to figure that out on my own.
adding th…
I’ve been “learning” to play with the Justin program, yousician and of course Youtube (play 1000 songs in 1 week !!)
I know my major/minor chords, some scales and technique and everyone says for me to progress…play songs. And there are plenty of 1,2, 3 chords beginner songs to play, but all i am doing is strumming those chords, over & over and over with maybe a minor change from intro to verse to chorus.
That to me is not learning a song, it’s just strumming a few chords, which I can do anytim…
Just sitting hear wondering how to do this? I have no ambition to be a lead player (at the moment) and I currently play rhythm behind a lead guitarist and/or a singer, either occasionally live or more often just joining in to a track that catches my attention.
However, without the lead or a singer, I am not sure anyone would recognise the song just from the rhythm guitar strumming. So what is the secret of playing a ‘campfire’ song that people recognise without a singer or lead guitar?
If anyo…
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