Strumming is where most guitar songs live, and a handful of patterns cover most of them. This library has 161, from one strum a bar for your first chord changes up to sixteenth-note funk scratches, grouped the way you will use them: essentials, pop, rock and punk, folk and country, waltzes and 6/8 ballads, blues and shuffle, reggae and ska, funk, Latin, and Bollywood and Indian folk feels that follow the keherwa and dadra taals.
Every pattern is drawn as arrows, down and up, with the count under each one (“1 & 2 &” or “1 e & a”) and marks for accents, chucks (muted strums), palm mutes, short strums and bass notes. Press play and it is strummed with real chords on the guitar sound you choose, the arrows light up in time, and a strumming hand moves down and up on every slot, including the ones where it misses the strings, because keeping that motion going is the secret of steady strumming.
Slow motion plays a pattern at three quarters, half or a quarter of the speed, with the strums spread out so you can hear each string. Set the tempo or tap it in, add swing for shuffles, choose a chord progression or type your own, and change chord once or twice a bar. A count-in and a click help you join in.
Like a pattern? Open it in the builder to change it, or export it as audio, a MIDI file, an image or a printable sheet. Patterns go from Beginner to Advanced, so you can pick the next step when one feels easy.