{"id":5285,"date":"2011-04-25T21:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:14:24","slug":"strumming-pattern-agnus-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Strumming Pattern &#8211; Agnus Dei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken this version of Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith&#8217;s album Worship. There is no acoustic guitar in the version per se but this will work if you are leading worship on guitar. The pattern itself is refreshingly different and provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Agnus-Dei\" href=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/08123338\/Agnus-Dei.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5286 \" src=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/08123338\/Agnus-Dei.png\" alt=\"Agnus-Dei\" width=\"520\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken this version of Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith&#8217;s album Worship. There is no acoustic guitar in the version per se but this will work if you are leading worship on guitar. The pattern itself is refreshingly different and provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in [&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":[1426,1384,1404,1387],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-25T21:45:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-31T17:14:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/30125413\/strumming-patterns-worship-guitar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"781\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"455\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andy@Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andy@Musicademy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/\",\"name\":\"Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-25T21:45:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-31T17:14:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253\"},\"description\":\"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Musicademy\",\"description\":\"Award-winning training resources for church based musicians\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253\",\"name\":\"Andy@Musicademy\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/musicademy.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei","description":"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei","og_description":"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse","og_url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/","og_site_name":"Musicademy","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy","article_published_time":"2011-04-25T21:45:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-31T17:14:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":781,"height":455,"url":"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/30125413\/strumming-patterns-worship-guitar.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Andy@Musicademy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@musicademy","twitter_site":"@musicademy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Andy@Musicademy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/","url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/","name":"Strumming Pattern - Agnus Dei","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-04-25T21:45:03+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-31T17:14:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253"},"description":"Strum pattern for Agnus Dei from Michael W Smith. Refreshingly different provides a sense of rolling consistency as the accents on the beats change in the verse","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/strumming-pattern-agnus-dei\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/","name":"Musicademy","description":"Award-winning training resources for church based musicians","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253","name":"Andy@Musicademy","sameAs":["http:\/\/musicademy.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22354,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/22354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}