Campfire guitar: Now with sound files. Guitar strumming and picking patterns for more than 1.000 songs

Comprehension

You should try to learn to understand rhythms. They all have their own melodies. It would be very helpful for you to develop a sense for it. The more this develops, the more confidently you can later correlate a song with a rhythm. This is exactly what I want to show you with this book in the first place. You should practically be able to figure out which rhythm, strumming, or picking pattern matches best to the song. There aren’t too many different options you see. It’s just that usually you don’t know how to proceed. But if you read through this book and the articles that interest you and learn the material then actually you shouldn’t have a big problem with it anymore. Rhythm is a matter of pure feeling. You can’t just rush through a rhythm and the necessary pattern without feeling it. It’s the same with dancing. Rhythms are nothing less than harmoniously balanced, concatenated sequences. So a matter of pure feeling. I will show you some nice rhythms and you will soon understand what you have to do: simply play, nothing more. And I will give you many hints which songs you can accompany them with. You can practice with these. Unfortunately, I can’t give you too many useful texts with chords and my rhythms all together. Almost all, with a few exceptions, underlie the copyright law. But this shouldn’t keep you from learning the rhythms anyway. There are plenty of texts with chords on the Internet, and many books available as well. If you accompany them with my rhythms then you have teaching material without end.

First, start to play and practice for a while, and once you’ve found the one or the other rhythm that works well for you then you should start to sing along. Changing chords fluently and learning the rhythms will probably be enough in the beginning. Please don’t be surprised if I sometimes write about rhythms and other times about patterns. This refers to the same thing. By the way, often several different patterns fit to the same song, but not