{"id":5141,"date":"2011-01-28T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:52:27","slug":"strumming-pattern-holy-is-the-lord-by-chris-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-holy-is-the-lord-by-chris-tomlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Strumming pattern &#8211; Holy is the Lord by Chris Tomlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Holy-is-the-Lord\" href=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/08123356\/Holy-is-the-Lord.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5142 \" src=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/08123356\/Holy-is-the-Lord.png\" alt=\"Holy-is-the-Lord\" width=\"520\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have Holy is the Lord as one of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/backing-tracks\/worship-backing-tracks-guitar.html\">Worship Backing Band DVD<\/a> tracks. You can remove the guitar from the mix and play along with the pro band (the words and chords are all on screen). Its also one of the songs on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/guitar-downloads\/downloads-worship\/holy-is-the-lord-guitar-chords.html\">Guitar Song Learner lessons<\/a> which demonstrates an alternative strum pattern for the song (as well as plenty more).\u00a0This one is only available as a download (i.e. not on any of the DVDs).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve listed this in a box format that shows the song over a single bar in a 16<sup>th<\/sup> note format. So the key is to count 1 E &amp; A, 2 E &amp; A, 3 E &amp; A, 4 E &amp; A over the song and crucially\u00a0<strong>KEEP YOUR HAND MOVING<\/strong> at all times. Naturally your hand should strum down on the numbers or beats (1234), the &amp;\u2019s and then the up beats should always link to the E\u2019s and A\u2019s. If you find this difficult to work through on paper then I\u2019d recommend either our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/existing-player\/intermediate\/intermediate-acoustic-guitar.html\">Song Learner series DVDs<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/existing-player\/intermediate\/intermediate-acoustic-guitar.html\">Intermediate Acoustic DVD<\/a>s as its much easier to see it on video than in an article.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caveats<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve tried to pick the patterns from either the original album version or a fairly stock version of each song but of course, there are many versions of each song, and even within each version there will be some room to change up the strumming pattern and still fit the groove.<\/li>\n<li>Do realise that while each strumming pattern will work for the song on its own, if your drummer, or indeed your band is playing a different groove (consciously or unconsciously!) then it may not entirely fit. The key is to make sure the main accents in the rhythm of the melody are reflected in the strumming pattern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Worship Backing Band DVD tracks. You can remove the guitar from the mix and play along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,7],"tags":[1389,1398,92,1387],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strumming pattern - Holy is the Lord by Chris Tomlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is taken from the original Chris Tomlin recording. 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