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JB
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According to Troy's Rhythm Guitar Vol 2, when strumming you use downstrokes for the down beat and upstrokes for the upbeat, but when you've got 1/16 notes amonsgt 1/8 notes, the motion is obviously upset.
I was a little frustrated that this wasn't covered in the book (although I certainly have no complaints on the rest of it), since it seemed like an obvious problem, but then I haven't found anything online about it either. So, can anyone here tell me what is generally done in these cases?
Thanks
(Edited by JB at 3:15 pm on Jan. 4, 2010)
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Total Posts: 11 | Joined Dec. 2009 | Posted on: 3:13 pm on Jan. 4, 2010 | IP
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SantoG3
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Remember when you did 8ths just with downstrokes on volume 1?, well now the only thing that goes alternate is 16ths, everything else is downtroked, 8ths included. Hope that helps.
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Total Posts: 366 | Joined Sep. 2002 | Posted on: 4:17 pm on Jan. 4, 2010 | IP
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JB
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Thanks for the reply.
OK, so I just discard the 'strumming approach' when I'm playing sixteenths with eighth notes in the same phrases? I'm not talking about when I'm doing the exercises later in the book, because those actually state that the eighth notes should be picked using downstrokes; I'm talking in general, as I'm trying to learn a couple of songs where some 1/8 notes follow a string of 1/16's.
'This strumming is only for phrases with exclusively 1/8 notes OR 1/16 notes'....yes?
If so, are there other alternate picking styles I can use (other than accent picking) which could work around this? I find alternation a lot smoother than down-picking everything.
Thanks again.
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Total Posts: 11 | Joined Dec. 2009 | Posted on: 4:38 pm on Jan. 4, 2010 | IP
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SantoG3
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No, the strumming approach is still valid because what a strumming pattern really is, is a way to "automate" your response to the rhythm, but this is only possible if you have a consistent way of picking. Itīs like alternate picking, when you see all those shredders playing really fast, itīs because they are in "automatic mode" they donīt think anymore about upstroke, downstroke.
If you practice all dowstrokes on quarter and 8th notes and alternate on 16ths, you will develop this hability, thatīs why Troy makes you play it like that. So donīt think this is not a strumming approach, but just a new one, now dealing with 16th notes.
Once you master this concept, you can do whatever you want with your picking hand. This exercises really loose it up!.
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Total Posts: 366 | Joined Sep. 2002 | Posted on: 12:30 am on Jan. 5, 2010 | IP
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JB
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Ah, OK, I think I get it now.
Thanks!
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Total Posts: 11 | Joined Dec. 2009 | Posted on: 1:39 pm on Jan. 5, 2010 | IP
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Strumming - mixing 1/16's, and 1/8's?
