Poison Song - Strum Pattern

[adam3291]

Any body care to enlighten me on the strum pattern for Every Rose has a Thorn? I want to see if I'm even close. Thanks in advance!!

Thanks alot

[cyberfret]

Most songs do not use one strum exclusively. In the case of this song, it is a fairly free 16th note strum that just goes along with the feel of the song. Here are a couple of basic patterns that you might use as a starting point. Even if you had the printed tablature for this with all of the rhythms written out, I would be an enormous task to try and memorize every strum exactly how it was played. And if you were to hear another performance of this song, the strums would be slightly different. This is one of the hardest hurdles for my private students to get over when it comes to strumming. Just try and keep your strumming hand and arm moving consistently down and up......strum the strings when you want to hear something, and miss when you do not....but keep moving consistently at the rate of a 16th note in this case




d=down
u=up
(d) or (u) means to miss the strings when strumming.
1 e & a = the counting of 16th notes....it takes 4 16th notes to = 1 beat


d(u d u)d(u)d u(d)u(d)u d u d u
1(e & a)2(e)& a(3)e(&)a 4 e & a

d(u d u)d(u)d u(d)u d(u)d(u)d u
1(e & a)2(e)& a(3)e &(a)4(e)& a



--Shawn

[adam3291]

Thanks Shawn!!