![]() You want to use the nails on your fingers (mainly index finger and middle finger) to get that raspy sound. For a start, you can use a plectrum, but its generally advised against. If you’re coming from a guitar background you may need to relearn some basics. Īnd one final one, with a slight embellishment at the end. Here are some patterns in 3/4 time, popular for waltzes. Remember, if you need to check, just count ‘1,2,3,1,2,3’. Other examples include Oh, My Darling Clementine, Down in the Valley, Amazing Grace, and Rock a Bye Baby. Waltzes are in 3/4, as are a lot of Christmas songs. Or like this with an upstroke thrown in: –-–-d-u-–-–-d-–.m4a It takes a while to get used to, but worth the effort. However, to play a reggae strum you need to accent the offbeat. In all the patterns so far you’ve played a strong beat on the one beat. It’s the same rhythm as Wilco’s California Stars. Two down strums, followed by a down up, down up. Īlmost identical to the last one, this is a slight variation with an extra up strum at the end. It sounds fab when you get it working, and is heard in everything from Outkast’s Hey Ya! to Noah and Whales Jealous kind of love. Secondly, you change the order at the end (up-down, instead of down-up). First, you miss the third downbeat, which gives it a slightly syncopated sound. This is a great one that you hear in a ton of songs. Again, it’s too repetitive to play a song with, but it’s a good one to practice to (ideally with a metronome) to build up your strumming technique. Your down strums should happen on beats 1 and 3 (odd numbers) and up strums on the even numbers (2 and 4). Now the same but throw in an upstroke after each down strum. With a metronome, play on each beat with a single down strum. It’s so repetitive that you wouldn’t want to play an entire song with it, but it tends to be the one most beginners start with. Let’s start with the most basic, the classic ‘four down strum’. If that works, then the song is in 3/4 time, so try those patterns further down the page instead. ![]() If it doesn’t fit, try counting ‘one, two, three, one, two, three’. If it fits, you can try out any of the 4/4 ukulele strumming patterns below. If you want to check that a song is in 4/4, try counting along to ‘one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four’ to it. The most common time signature is 4/4 (or ‘four four’) and most of the patterns we’ll look at are in this time signature. How to Identify the Time Signature of a Song How to Identify the Time Signature of a Song.
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