Downstrum Every Beat
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D D D
Adding Two Upstrums
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D D U D U
Adding Three Upstrums
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D U D U D U
Downstrum and Upstrum
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D U D U D U D U
Skipping a Downstrum
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D U D U U D U
Skipping an Upstrum and a Downstrum
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D U U D U
Rests
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D U D D U
Complex Rests
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D U D U U D U
Long Pause
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
D D U D U
Waltz
1 & 2 & 3 &
D D D U
Throughout these lessons there will be Guitar Tabs. Tab is short for Tablature. Like the one following: Guitar tab is the fingering of each note laid out in a visual
The Major Pentatonic is used in country or country blues. Basically, any chord progression that would use the Major Scale. Pentatonic scales have just 5 notes. There are five different
The notes of the E Major Scale are E, F#, G#, A, B, C# D#. The chords of the E Major scale are: Major Minor Minor Major Major Minor Dim