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Strumming Pattern – Days of Elijah by Robin Mark

By Andy@Musicademy | March 4, 2011

There are lots of versions of this that all vary slightly. I’ve used Robin Mark’s original. Its another syncopated ‘gallop’ style pattern that moves the song along when played fast. Many people use the pattern all the time and it can become a bit wearing if the song doesn’t need it so use it appropriately […]

Strumming Pattern to God of Wonders by Marc Byrd & Steve Hindalong

By Andy@Musicademy | February 24, 2011

This pattern purposely misses out the down strum on beat 3, which gives it a pushed feel. Its similar to Oasis’s Wonderwall and this kind pattern works well for giving a slower song an ‘up’ feel. Its taken from the Third Day album, Live in Philadelphia. We have God of Wonders as one of our […]

Strumming Pattern for Hosanna (Praise is Rising) by Brenton Brown and Paul Baloche

By Andy@Musicademy | February 19, 2011

This pattern is quite similar to Come Now is the Time to Worship. The pattern can sound all over the place if you speed up or slow down even a little. So once you’ve got this pattern down, practice it with a metronome until the timing is rock solid. This is taken from the Paul […]

Strumming pattern for Revelation Song by Kari Jobe

By Andy@Musicademy | February 14, 2011

This is taken from Kari Jobe’s album version of the song. As this is quite a slow song the pattern can be quite full to keep it moving along. There is a lot of room to change this pattern around and keep to the groove but the key is to be consistent. I.e. whatever pattern […]

Strumming pattern – Come Now is the Time to Worship by Brian Doerksen

By Andy@Musicademy | February 8, 2011

This pattern is taken from the UK Vineyard original album ‘Come Now is the Time’. This is a very common syncopated rhythm that comes up a lot in worship songs. If it seems complicated on the page, break it down and count it through very slowly. Keep your hand moving as you strum and only […]

Strumming Pattern – Forever by Chris Tomlin

By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2011

I took this pattern from the rhythm of the hi hats on the original Chris Tomlin recording but because it’s a straight groove there’s a lot of license to build your own pattern. So lots of patterns could work. Just be careful not to add to many up strum pushes so to upset the straight […]

Strumming pattern – Shout to the Lord by Darlene Zschech

By Andy@Musicademy | February 1, 2011

There are so many version of Shout to the Lord out there so I’ve given it a very straight treatment with a very few pushes just to add a little movement. This pattern works very well for many hymn like songs where you want it to sound solid without to much ‘groove’. We have Shout […]

Strumming pattern – Holy is the Lord by Chris Tomlin

By Andy@Musicademy | January 28, 2011

This is taken from the original Chris Tomlin recording. Because we miss out a strum on beat 3 of the bar it feels like the groove is being pushed along. We have Holy is the Lord as one of our Worship Backing Band DVD tracks. You can remove the guitar from the mix and play along […]

Strumming pattern – Jesus Messiah by Chris Tomlin

By Andy@Musicademy | January 25, 2011

Similarly to Your Grace is Enough the main groove accents all fall exactly on the beat. The up strums add a little movement and allude to the rhythm in the melody. For the chorus you could get rid of the upstrums altogether and add them back in for the verse. Basically more down strums adds […]

Strumming pattern – Your Grace is Enough by Chris Tomlin

By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2011

This pattern is taken from the original Tomlin version which is pretty open as far as patterns go because the main accents all fall exactly on the beats and the upstrums just beforehand only serve to move the track along. If you don’t have a copy of the track handy then try finding it on […]