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Guitar strumming pattern blues swing rhythm

Guitar strumming pattern for blues or swing rhythm

This lesson continues on from an earlier post: How to play a guitar strumming pattern.

This time however, you will be learning how to create a swing or bluesy strumming pattern.

To sing it, the pattern goes something like:
Down up down up up down down up down up up down

The sound of the rthythm or pattern is best demostrated by example. To listen to the guitar rthythm for blues and swing, as well as learn how to play the pattern, click the go arrow on the video below.

If you follow along with this lesson, you'll also learn how to play the A7 chord. The image below shows you where to place your fingers on the guitar for an A7 chord.

example of A7 chord


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