In the next few lessons we’re going to be talking about strumming. And one of the best ways to learn a song that you want to play is to break that song down into smaller parts, and then you work on the parts separately, and then you put it all together.

In the last lesson we went over song form and we talked about the various components that make up a song form: the verse, and the chorus and the bridge. In this lesson we want to go over techniques that you might use to break down a particular part of a song, and learn how to strum that part.

In the last lesson we learned how to take a strum progression and simplify it so that we can figure out how long the chords last for, and what we need to do in a real basic sense. In this lesson we want to take that basic framework and add in some of the details to spruce it up and make it sound like the real thing.

In this lesson we want to take that basic framework and add in some of the details to spruce it up and make it sound like the real thing.

In this chapter we talked a lot about strumming and different techniques that you can use, some of them basic some of them more complicated. Let’s take a moment just to review.