Re:YouTab: Automatically get chords for music
by jordanwallwork on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:05PM
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Don't implement strumming patterns! I've watched my wife trying to learn guitar pursing her lips saying up-down-up-up-down to herself and it just sounds robotic. Once you can play the chords smoothly enough strumming just happens. Even better, everyone seems to strum their own way (i cant sing so i strum a lot to compensate, whereas i have a friend with a beautiful voice who barely touches the strings)
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Re:YouTab: Automatically get chords for music
by philbarr on Thursday August 21, 2014 @08:19AM
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That up-down-up-up-down whilst keeping the hand moving sets up different rythms and is an important skill. Especially if you're trying to learn a particular song - which will sound totally different if you get that wrong. Of course, you can get away without learning it like a lot of stuff on the guitar but you just won't be as good.