Guitar 1: The Syncopated Strum

In addition to learning your chords, a guitarist wants to have a variety of different strumming patterns to enable them to play different styles of music. This video demonstrates a strumming pattern called the syncopated strum. It is one of the most commonly used and useful strums for the guitarist. Try using this strum with the chord progression for When September Ends and you will start to hear the song emerge from the chords.



This strum follows this pattern: D DU U D     (D=Down, U=Up)

Try combining your chords into your own progression using this strumming pattern.