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Why You Shouldn't Use Strumming Pattern Tabs

Strumming patterns won't help you learn a song properly or make you sound like the original. Using the intro to Wonderwall by Oasis as an example, learn how to find the underlying strumming pattern to a song. Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial https://www.secretguitarteacher.com/ -- Abridged Script: There’s a musical fallacy that is spreading across the guitar-related internet sites and, in this lesson, I would like to try and make sure that you are immunized against its negative effects. The fallacy is that a song has a specific strumming pattern and that this should be tabbed out and then learned stroke for stroke. Here’s an example of what I mean, taken directly from a popular guitar tab site. This is put there as the strumming pattern for Oasis song, Wonderwall. I could probably spend the whole of this lesson ranting about all the things I feel are wrong with this. But let’s just summarize: 1 - it is just SO HARD to learn to strum, following a pattern laid out like this. If you don’t believe me, rewind the video to the diagram and spend a few minutes trying! 2 - even if, after hours of painful persistence, you do manage to duplicate the pattern exactly as shown in the diagram, you will be greatly disappointed when you listen back to the record and hear that this exact pattern isn’t quite what is actually being played. 3 - the reason you won’t hear this pattern, is that the whole idea of a fixed strumming pattern is basically wrong! So my task for this lesson, is to show you a way that is 1 - Easier to learn; 2 - Helps you sound more like the record and 3 - Is based on the right basic idea – whatever that is! We’ll keep using the intro to Wonderwall as an example. Here are the chords that I am using for those who may not know this song. The first step is to listen to the record and determine the underlying rhythmic feel of the song. This is a very important concept so let’s explain exactly what we mean by underlying rhythmic feel. Most of the songs we listen to have an underlying rhythm that falls into one of these 3 categories. Don’t be too put off if the notation means nothing to you, actually the most important thing here are the lines beneath the notes, where I have shown the way I vocalize these rhythmic feels. The underlying strumming pattern of an 8 beat feel looks like this - I vocalize that as 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &. The underlying strumming pattern of triplet feel might go like this and I vocalize that as 1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a. A common variant of this might be a song in 6/8 time which will use half this count 1 & a 2 & a – it’s the same basic feel, just chopped in half. The underlying strumming pattern of a 16 beat feel looks like this - and I vocalize that as 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a. So now, have a quick listen to the start of Wonderwall and see if you can hear which of these 3 patterns is being applied. I’m hoping that you could hear that as a 16 beat rhythm by counting 1e&a2e&a3e&a4e&a. Step two is to play the chords using the underlying pattern without any modification. I sometimes call this ‘scrubbing’ your way through a tune. The third step is to modify the pattern. This you do simply by missing the strings on some strokes and also perhaps varying how you use the lower, middle and higher strings on the guitar. This can produce infinite varieties of strumming patterns some of which will sound more - or less, like Noel Gallagher’s playing on the record. Now, listen back to Noel Gallagher’s playing and notice that he DOESN’T play this pattern every bar. He uses an underlying 16 beat pattern which he then varies in an expressive way, pretty much each bar, to go with the feel of the song. He does this spontaneously and according to his mood of the moment. And I firmly believe that this is the way music should be made. Listening out for underlying rhythmic feels is something you will get better at, the more you try it. Each of the main rhythms I have mentioned here have their own sub-classes and there are other rhythmic feels that fall outside of the three main categories I have mentioned. But the message here is to relax any idea of there being one ‘Correct Strumming Pattern’ for a song and instead learn to work with the underlying rhythmic feel and create your own natural sounding patterns spontaneously. Then I promise: You will find the process of learning to strum so much easier. The only limitation on your sounding like the record will be the gap between your level of technical skill and that of the person playing the guitar on the record, and this gap can of course be reduced by practice. Most importantly, even though you may not be able to duplicate the strumming on the record, your way of strumming will sound natural and musical. I promise you, this was never going to happen from trying to learn the strumming pattern from tab, stroke for stroke!