{"id":8334,"date":"2022-09-20T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:02:48","slug":"better-double-time-strumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/better-double-time-strumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Double Time Strumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, today isn&#8217;t a blues guitar lesson&#8230; but strumming is, arguably, one of the most important things you can do on a guitar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So you need to be able to do it well, and we&#8217;re gonna work on that.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are familiar with &#8220;normal,&#8221; or &#8220;straight time&#8221; strumming, but a lot of songs that are slightly slower will use what I call a double-time feel, where you&#8217;re breaking down each beat into sixteenth notes.<\/p>\n<p>If you can follow along with me in this video, I&#8217;ll show you how to do that correctly (solving one of the most common problems my students face) and help your strumming take a few steps forward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sVIVkSKCgJs?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Interested in Strumming &amp; Rhythm Mastery that I mentioned in the video? That&#8217;s here: <a href=\"https:\/\/strummingmastery.com\">https:\/\/strummingmastery.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, today isn&#8217;t a blues guitar lesson&#8230; but strumming is, arguably, one of the most important things you can do on a guitar&#8230; So you need to be able to do it well, and we&#8217;re gonna work on that. Most people are familiar with &#8220;normal,&#8221; or &#8220;straight time&#8221; strumming, but a lot of songs that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334"}],"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=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}