How to drum On Guitar
Strum & Drum - 4 Basic Acoustic Beats for Percussive Guitar
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hey I hope you're doing good is Christy
up in six dream finger-picking and in
this lesson I'm going to show you four
basic but really fun Grumpy's you can
play a new acoustic guitar while
strumming chords let's go straight on
with the lesson
okay so if you want to get all the
extras in the tabs for this lesson
that's available on the website sixteen
finger-picking calm but let's get on
with it a few lessons ago I made a video
on how to play the bass drum and the
snare drum on the acoustic guitar so
going over the techniques and then in
this lesson I'm going to show you a few
variations of the bass drum now to kind
of spice it up a little bit so if you
haven't seen that you don't have the
techniques follow the link through to
that video and get up to speed but
anyway so for drum beats you can use
while strumming chords so I'm just going
to a minor and the very first drum beat
that we're going to do it's going to
sound like this
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okay
so really the most basic one that you
can do but we'll get onto the base time
in just a second let's talk about the
strumming all I'm doing to keep it
simple is I'm just playing sixteen for
those the whole time down up down up
down up down up no no no no money to be
free there every simple of every single
example that we're doing here I'm just
using my first finger you can use two
fingers pretty fingers however you like
to strum it doesn't really make much
difference I'm holding down a minor
chord sometimes are gonna go to a G
chord
I might go to an F chord but it doesn't
matter what chord you're holding down it
doesn't even really matter if you're not
holding the cord out at all and you're
just laying your fingers flat on the
strings like that muting them actually
recommend practicing it both ways so
what's going on here
taking out the based on once more down
up down up the snare drum there's that
tap with a thumb so we landed on the
counts of two and four one E and a two E
and three E and four E and that's the
same for each drum beat
so here the bass drum is going to land
on one and three so we take out the
strumming we're playing one two three
four one two three four with the
strumming okay so let's break that down
so we're playing the bass drum and we're
strung together on beat one okay
followed by up down up so it's a strum
down and the bass drum up you just want
to practice that if you're not used to
it okay and you know beat two comes
along and we strum down with her finger
and we play the snare drum at the same
time okay I bats it to there together
and it's difficult to get them to line
perfectly up but just keep working on it
okay
and then up down up so together up down
up and that's it so that's the first one
you just repeat that until you can
gradually start picking up the speed and
when you're comfortable hold down a
chord
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and start heading in the drums there and
in a bit of time it does get really
comfortable okay so that's the first one
let's move on to the next one
okay so the next drum beat is just gonna
be the next most basic one that I can
think of and there's one two three and
four one two three and four so they're
doubling up the bass drum or the second
one starts exactly the same the first
half of the bar exactly the same as
before but on the second one we double
up with that bass so is that good same
that's before and then when you get to
beat three you play the bass drum with a
strum down then strum up and then you do
that twice so again you'll play the bass
drum with the strum down and so together
this bass and strum up strong base and
strum up strong Society okay followed by
your snare with the strum down up down
up so just the second half base and
strum up basis drum up snare up so
what's for easterly okay what's that as
many times as you need to put it all
together
[Music]
[Music]
okay so have some fun with that one
for our third drumbeat we're going to
play one two and three four one two and
three four one two three four okay so
[Laughter]
[Music]
okay like that
so again starts exactly the same as the
very first one so base with the down
strum up down up and then a snare
followed by an up and then base with a
strum down and then up strum and then a
bass with the next drum so from the
snare sir yeah okay so one E and two
three one two and three four one and two
and now being a drummer which I am does
help you know I played the drums for
something like 20 years
I learnt knowing how to count it's gonna
of great the work to your advantage here
so if you understand where the beats are
falling and all the strokes are falling
within the bar it's going to really help
you so it's one two and three four
[Music]
okay so that's that one one two and
three four E and
okay so the last one sounds like this
[Laughter]
[Music]
okay say got one too so I took you
through the whole thing
bass drum with a Down strum on the beat
up on the counter 1 1 e and so that's
been the same in each drum beat that
we've done followed by the snare
followed by it up and then a bass drum
followed by it up okay that's the first
half of the bar the end to end and then
you've got a strum on its own fly line
up and then the bass drum with the next
jump followed by an upset sorry so so
far and then you just got four E and AH
that's been the same so it's the middle
bit that's a bit weird here I'll play it
really slowly okay and then as soon as
you're ready to and you've got that down
put a chord on it
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and then work your way through any chord
progression that you've got so let's
have a quick recap the first one which
is one two three four the second we went
one two three and four so that's the
third we played one two and three four
and the last one the hardest one one two
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so play through them don't move on to
the next one and two you've really
mastered the one before and have some
fun
I think the best thing you can do once
you've got that down is to try and put
it on some of your own cause maybe write
your own corporate question and to get
creative with these ideas maybe study
rhythm if you're not too familiar with
it study some drummers perhaps and some
drum beads and then see if you can
perhaps apply some of your own drum
beats but that's what we're going to
leave it for today
okay so that's it for this lesson I
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