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Hi guys 
I have a little question about strumming. I think I’ve already posted this but it was on the YouTube comments. Anyway, when we do the down strums, are we supposed to avoid hitting the body of the guitar? I guess we want to avoid but there’s the pickguard to protect BUT hitting the body sounds and feels wrong 
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Thanks 
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Which angle should I use for the upstrokes then with the pick? Because he said like a 20 degrees but then upstrokes?
Roll your wrist a bit to get the angle around -20. Feel for if the pick is moving across the tops of the strings rather than catching under them and adjust as you need. It will take some time get this to feel and act right. Flexible picks will help to keep poor angle from catching too much.
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Up until this lesson I’ve spent the whole time strumming mostly with my wrist rather than my whole arm. and my biggest challenge so far is actually hitting the right strings when I strum. it’s impossible to do it without looking down at my hand, and even then it’s not easy. if I strum with my whole arm, it’ll get one thousand times more difficult to strum the correct strings. I prefer a wrist motion because it gives me way more control and I aspire to someday be playing fast, complex stuff like thrash metal, which needs a wrist motion. am I okay to go on using my wrist or do I REALLY need to use my arm like Justin said?
You can do both. The flick of the wrist is good for 16th note strumming which will come up later in the course. It’s useful to try other techniques to broaden your skills as a guitarist. Give it a go, Justin would only teach it if it had some benefit.
ok thanks, I’ll try doing full arm strums and see how it goes
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Try using a thinner pick and turn the wrist as you strum like you are using a paint brush and I think it will make the whole arm strum easier