Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “Country Roads, ” thanks to his self-strumming guitar, Strumbot.
For the first three hours of the hackathon on Saturday, Tham had no idea what he wanted to do and didn’t want to use any of the available APIs. At about 4 p.m., he made a trip to the hardware store and borrowed his dad’s guitar to create Strumbot. “I’m actually really bad at guitar. Rhythm mostly, ” Tham tells me. “So I wanted to create a robot that would help me strum in rhythm.”
Covered in velcro and black tape (since he couldn’t use a drill), the Strumbot enables you, with one hand, to play the chords while a metal lever moves a guitar pick across the strings. Still, it alleviates the problem of having to manage both, and makes it easier to concentrate on chords and lyrics.
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Tham uses a node.js application to enter strumming patterns using JavaScript, which then sends signals through an Arduino board to a motor attached to the guitar. The motor then controls when the guitar pick moves, following each pattern. From the computer, you can press the button for each pattern and the Strumbot will take care of the rest.
The Strumbot application is going online, but Tham wants to improve the strumming ability with a better motor for quicker movements. The pick also currently has to go both up and down, which makes a chord echo and isn’t ideal for sound quality.
Tham has participated in other hackathons. He was part of a winning team that developed a lost-and-found app at the Outside Lands Hackathon. However, he says he’s looking to get into more hardware projects, with Strumbot as his second undertaking in hardware.I met Jami recently on Pinterest and we became fast email guitar buddies. Jami has a wonderful gift for beautifully designed, easy to follow, visually appealing guitar lessons. I just love her website and her beautifully styled lessons are so different than mine, I just had to have her do a guest post here at . Hopefully it won’t be her last!
What Are Some Good Strumming Patterns To Sing Slow Songs To On A Ukulele? I Can Do It Only On Down Strums, Otherwise The Rhythm Gets Fast.
Jami is a professional guitarist with Bachelor of Music in guitar performance. She teaches guitar privately, in group classes and through her new website, modern guitar approach. Jami also performs solo acoustic guitar and is the lead guitarist for the band the Mothers of Mayhem.
I took quite a few guitar pedagogy classes when I was in college studying guitar performance. One of the first classes I took explained the 3 main types of accompaniment methods on guitar and how to teach them to others. To accompany on the guitar means that you are playing the chords to a song while you or someone else sings the melody.
A simple strum pattern is usually a combination of quarter notes and eighth notes played in a certain order over and over again each measure. To play a strum pattern, it’s helpful to know a few musical signs. The first is a down strum, which is used to strum down from the lowest sounding string (your 6th string) to the highest string (1st string)
Country Roads Guitar Tutorial: Chords, Strumming Pattern And Lyrics For John Denver's Famous Song
A down strum is used when you’re playing “on the down beat”. This means when you’re strumming on beat 1, 2, 3 or 4 (in 4/4 time). A strum pattern that uses all down beats would use quarter note strum bars and look like this:
When two strum bars are connected with a beam you get eighth notes and both are strummed in one beat. To do this, you strum down on the first one and up on the second.
I’m going to use Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison to teach about strum patterns. The song I’ve included has two different strum pattern options. The first option uses a simple strum pattern that looks like this:
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When you strum it, it should sound like you’re saying pie, apple, pie, pie. Here’s Brown Eyed Girl using this strum pattern:
For those who are familiar with strum patterns already, you may want to try a syncopated strum pattern instead. To play a syncopated strum pattern, you first need to know what a tie is. When playing a tie, you play the first strum bar and hold over for the duration of the second.
Alternating Bass is a guitar accompaniment style that is used in bluegrass, folk, country and is even found in other music styles here and there. This is a great way to accompany a song because it almost sounds like you’ve brought a bass player along as well.
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Alternating Bass means that you play the lowest note of the chord, strum the higher strings and then play an “Alternate Bass” note and strum the higher strings again. This “Alternate Bass” note is sometimes on a lower string and sometimes on a higher string.
I’m going to show this concept with Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. This song is in 3/4 time, which means you have 3 beats in a measure. When playing alternating bass in 3/4 time, you play a bass note and then strum for two beats and then play an alternating bass note and strum for two more beats (assuming you haven’t switched chords yet). I also added an eighth note strum pattern in to make the song a little more interesting to listen to.
Pattern picking (also called fingerpicking accompaniment style) is when you hold a chord and then play the strings with your fingers (instead of a guitar pick) in a specific order and then repeat that order until the next chord. It’s easiest to divide these patterns into three categories; 4-string, 5-string, and 6-string chords.
John Denver
In order to play fingerstyle accompaniment patterns, you also need to know how to name your right hand fingers. I use the traditional Spanish naming which is a common practice for most guitar music:
It can be a challenge when progressing from pick to fingerstyle, and the difficulty in moving your attention from your fretting hand to the picking hand fingers isn’t easy right away, but the trick is in learning the pattern first. The best fingerstyle guitar songs out there have varying levels of difficulty, from common fingerstyle patterns used in folk, such as early Bob Dylan, all the way through to bluegrass and other more complex techniques. To teach this concept, I’m going to use Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. This song only uses 5 string and 6 string chords. Here are the patterns for both:
This song uses the D/F# chord. This is called a slash chord, or a chord over bass note. Here is a good explanation:
Take Me Home, Country Roads By John Denver
Let’s use the song Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver to further illustrate the concept of strum patterns, alternating bass & fingerpicking patterns. I picked this song because I’ve heard it played with all three accompaniment patterns in the past and they all sound great! It is also an easy song to work with because it uses beginner guitar chords. If you want the song to sound like the original, be sure to put your capo on the 2nd fret.
Next, I’ve written the same song using alternating bass. This will also show you how you can play alternating bass in 4/4 time.
Lastly, here is Country Roads using fingerstyle accompaniment. The pattern I’ve used is called Travis Picking Style. This style was made famous by Merle Travis. To play this style, you play two notes together for a quarter note on the first beat, and then play the rest of the pattern as eighth notes. Here is how the pattern looks broken down by how many strings you play for each chord.
Take Me Home, Country Roads” For Ukulele (in C)
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Jami is a professional guitarist with Bachelor of Music in guitar performance. She teaches guitar privately, in group classes and through her new website, modern guitar approach. Jami also performs solo acoustic guitar and is the lead guitarist for the band the Mothers of Mayhem.
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Country Roads: Fingerpicking Guitar Tab
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