Nice job on the video, it was well done. I understand this is geared towards early beginners. That said, I've never been a fan of strumming patterns in general. My opinion is each song has its own style and the strumming is something that you need to feel, rather than count out in a specific pattern. Repeating and counted down up, down up sounds too robotic to me.
I actually agree with you…once you hit late beginner/early intermediate stage. But, in the beginning I find having a ‘pattern’ helps students who don’t naturally strum Both ‘down and up’ we’ll get into the groove. I usually have a set of 7 patterns I teach, we usually apply a few to songs they already know, then I say, “Okay you can basically forget this now and just feel it, unless you’re struggling to feel it - then come back to these 🙃”
Nice job on the video, it was well done. I understand this is geared towards early beginners. That said, I've never been a fan of strumming patterns in general. My opinion is each song has its own style and the strumming is something that you need to feel, rather than count out in a specific pattern. Repeating and counted down up, down up sounds too robotic to me.
I actually agree with you…once you hit late beginner/early intermediate stage.
But, in the beginning I find having a ‘pattern’ helps students who don’t naturally strum
Both ‘down and up’ we’ll get into the groove.
I usually have a set of 7 patterns I teach, we usually apply a few to songs they already know, then I say,
“Okay you can basically forget this now and just feel it, unless you’re struggling to feel it - then come back to these 🙃”