How can you make your strumming technique more musical and interesting? Should you learn more strumming patterns?

Well, of course. However, there is a way to make your strumming more interesting that has nothing to do with learning new strumming patterns.

We can, for example, make the strumming more interesting by making the chord progression more interesting. And how do we make chords more interesting? By strumming them with purpose.

In this video, I will show you:

• How to strum chords up to a certain string (instead of strumming all the strings all the time).
• How to add more color to chords to make the strumming more interesting.

By the way, I made a video in which I show you five strumming tricks. Make sure you check it out. There are some great strumming tips there too.

We will be using five chords in the key of D major. The seven chords that belong to the D major key are:

D Em F#m G A Bm C#dim.

However, we will only use five chords.

D Em G A Bm

Enjoy this lesson.