And there are many others, but that’s a good place to start.<\/p>\n
Well notice that many of those skills depend on 1 single skill – the ability to strum and keep time. THAT skill is the single most important one and the obvious tipping point between a beginning and intermediate guitar player.<\/p>\n
A beginner learns to play some chords, but cannot string them together in such a way that you can tell where the beat is… an intermediate can play some chords strung together and it will sound musical.<\/p>\n
There are a bunch of simple, common songs that all can use what I call “The Most Popular Strum In The World”<\/a><\/p>\n And I could probably think of 8-10 more pretty quickly without too much trouble. In fact, any song that goes along at a medium tempo and the chord changes don’t happen too fast can work with that strum so the possibilities are fairly endless.<\/p>\n When you add to that the fact that strumming and keeping good time is the backbone of any band it becomes a necessity for soloing and lead playing as well.<\/p>\n In plain and simple terms, if you can keep better time with your strumming, you’ll keep better time when playing a solo and it will just plain sound better.<\/p>\n And if you feel like things aren’t progressing the way you want them to, and you’re not sure where to focus your time and energy, my bet would be that strumming and keeping time is where you need to focus.<\/p>\n Now go play!<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone asked me the other day, “what makes a guitar player an intermediate guitar player?” And what he really meant was, “what skills do I need to know to make it from the beginning stages to the intermediate stage?” Well first, let’s just brain dump many of the skills you may ever want to learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/a>Strumming And Rhythm Mastery<\/a> is all about strumming and keeping good time. I believe it's the most important musical skill you can develop and this keeps it fun by using real chord progressions from real songs you hear every day. It covers many styles including blues, rock, country, and more. Click here to learn more about Strumming And Rhythm Mastery.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n