Spice up your strumming

- Musical time is divided into groups of beats…called measures.…Let's take a look at example seven.…You'll notice to the left of the example…you'll see 4/4.…That just means we have four beats in each measure.…So let's play this example with a C chord…and use only down strums,…and we'll count as we play the strums.…Ready?…One, two, three, four.…One, two, three, four.…

One, two, three, four.…All right.…Example eight.…Now we're going to play eighth notes.…So, eighth notes are twice as fast as quarter notes.…We're going to still play four beats,…but we're going to play two strums per beat.…The down beat is played with the down strum,…and the and or up beat is played with an up strum.…So it goes like this, ready?…C chord.…

One, two, three, four.…One and two and…three and four and…one and two and…three and four and.…OK, now for exercise nine,…we're going to combine quarter notes and eighth notes,…and we'll count as we play them.…Ready?…One, two, three, four.…One, two and, three,…four and,…one, two and, three,…four and.…