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Strumming the guitar creates rhythm, and the chords you hold down creates melody.

Added up, you get music :-) We'll demonstrate this today by learning how to play Knocking on Heavens Door.

Learning to strumm your guitar is a groundbreaking experience for beginner guitarists, since this is the point where your actually start making real music. You can strum your acoustic or electric guitar, they're the same. The pattern you strum with will specify the rhythm of the song, but chords are important, so you'll already have to know how to change in between them.

In this lessong, you'll learn:

how to strumm the guitar
intro to chord progressions
a guitar strumming song

Being able to strumm along to a song is the first big achievement of beginner guitarists. You can download a bunch of guitar strumming songs to practice and refine your technique, and have fun at the same time at TheGuitarLesson.com.

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