5 Strumming mistakes that RUIN your sound! Fix them in 13 minutes

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I was progressively getting worse and more frustrated as I was developing these habits. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this video. It instantly helped.

As someone with 25+ years of playing, I must say..this is a great video for beginners. I'm planning on teaching my nephew, he wants to learn, he's 13. So here I am, going through tutorials on YouTube to get better ideas on how to teach, so THANK YOU so much for this video! 🤟

For years I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with my guitar techniques, why it sounds different than others. And was in vain. Finally, you point that out. Thank you.

I noticed, while watching the video, I do scrape my pick and I also don’t really attack the strings like a drummer. Thanks for the video! I had no idea I was making these mistakes 👌💯

Also, people who strum all 6 strings all the time. Should play the bass note and down. Good video.

This helped me out a lot, I thought I was doing okay, but i was making almost all of these mistakes. Thank you for this, this was much needed for a beginner.

Nice Guitar 🎸 👌 ❤ I play over 50 years and you talk strait the truth.I learn only on feeling the rithm ❤❤

Dude, you totally nailed it… I’m a pretty confident rhythm guitarist and I’m guilty of #5 a lot. It’s almost like you get lazy or hypnotized half way through a song and you find yourself scraping. Thanks for this!

#4 took me FOREVER. I played piano for 30 years before picking up a guitar. There is no equivalent motion, and it made no sense to me. I did have a teacher when I started. He told me my timing was excellent even though I was strumming wrong. He made me learning the technique, and it did wonders for my playing. So much more comfortable, tighter rhythm, and a much more consistent tone. Learn it!

Ive played for 40 years. Still found a couple of these tips useful. Thanks Andrew.😊

I come back here after a year of learning guitar, this video help me a effing lot, thank you!

deeply appreciate your videos. my strumming instantly sound different after follow your guidance. 🤟

For a beginner, this is great information. Once you progress to an intermediate level, I'd encourage the player to be able to control some of these elements at will. Being able to control pick angle is very useful when playing single lines (as opposed to strumming), and slow strums can be good for landing chords (like rolling a chord on Piano) if used sparingly. Being able to deviate from natural strumming (down/up/down/up, etc.) is also very useful once you get to more advanced rhythms (for different accents, triplets, etc). But none of these things should be practiced until you've got the fundamentals down.

Dude, you just opened my eyes! I have been struggling with strumming with my (unfortunate) intermittent practice time and this has made a world of difference. Especially mistake #1. I never realized it until now. Thank you for this great lesson.

one of rarely helpful videos , really. especially about the angle and the way how to strum properly, everybody else talk about the rythm but no one talks about the actual technique. this is some good stuff . thanks !

I was making all of the mistakes you pointed here. Thanks to you, my strumming just got 47,3% better!

This was outstanding! I tried to learn guitar (for a short time) and it always sounded so completely awful I gave up and gave the guitar to a family member. I want it back now! I think I did everything wrong that you pointed out. He he, good thing I can laugh at myself! Anyway, this was incredible and not one single thing that was too technical that I didn't get it! Simple solutions.

Essential viewing for anyone with an acoustic guitar. This is brilliant. This should be the very first lesson for anyone who's just bought an acoustic guitar. This is all about building quality and finesse into your playing from day one -- so it becomes second nature. Strongly recommended! 😃👍🎸

Fantastic tips, never knew why my strumming sounded so bad, now I know.