Learn and build strumming patterns, then hear them played. Add accents and muted strums, switch to 16th notes for funk, and slow anything down until it's easy.
Add BPM every bars, up to BPM.
Play bars, then go quiet for . Keep playing through the gap and see if you land back in time.
Stop after minutes.
Your hand keeps moving down and up the whole time. The boxes only show when it touches the strings.
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The tuner listens through your microphone, works out which string you're playing and goes green when you're within 3 cents. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The tuner is also in the menu at the top of every page.
Send Joe a clip and get personal feedback on your playing, plus a plan for what to work on next.
See Mentorship PlansPick a pattern to start with, or build your own. Each box is one movement of your strumming hand, down on the beat and up on the "and". Choose Strum, Accent, Mute or Rest, then tap the boxes to fill them in. Press Play to hear it on a real chord with a click.
Your strumming hand never stops. It keeps moving down and up in time, and the pattern only decides when it touches the strings. Rests are just strums that miss. Keep that motion going and every pattern gets easier.
Start slowly, around 60 to 70 BPM, and only speed up when every accent and mute lands in the right place. Then play along to the metronome or a backing track with the chords of a song you like.
Down, down, up, up, down, up across one bar of 4/4 (D D U U D U). It works for a huge number of pop, rock and folk songs. It's the Folk preset in the trainer.
Yes. Keep your hand moving down on the beats and up in between, even when you don't hit the strings. That steady motion is what keeps you in time.
A strum with your fretting hand resting lightly on the strings, so you hear a percussive chop instead of the chord. It's often played on beats 2 and 4.
Use a slow tempo with the click on, count out loud, and keep your strumming hand moving all the time. Speed up only when it feels easy.
Usually it's a stiff wrist or a hand that stops and starts. Loosen your grip on the pick, strum from the wrist, and keep the down-up motion going between strums.