How Do You Strum?

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Unread post by fret » Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:36 am

MWR wrote:Technically you should use the wrist with only a slight bit of forearm movemant. If you have these big exagerated strums your wasting a lot of energy. Of course there's exceptions to every rule.
If your doing really fast stumming or tremelo picking than the wrist should be stiff and the forearm should do the work.
Whatever sounds good and feels comfortable.
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Unread post by DustyDave » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:28 am

MWR wrote:Technically you should use the wrist with only a slight bit of forearm movemant. If you have these big exagerated strums your wasting a lot of energy. Of course there's exceptions to every rule.
If your doing really fast stumming or tremelo picking than the wrist should be stiff and the forearm should do the work.
Whatever sounds good and feels comfortable.
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Unread post by the_drewster » Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:26 am

borocks wrote:
seth_southerland wrote:yeah it is, cuz left-handed people are weird
we ain't


Nah, I have to agree with Seth... we're weird. But hey, I'd rather be wierd and smart than thick and normal. It's real science people!
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Unread post by adamondo » Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:24 pm

Left handed people, pfffttt!
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Unread post by Speenis » Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:37 pm

2StepGranny wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:
2StepGranny wrote:It's all with what you're comfortable with. Both my Forearm and wrist move, almost like Dave, but nearly as cool looking ;-) But along those lines.
same here, I kinda move my whole arm cuz I get really into it sometimes :D
Yeah, I definitely have to get into some songs, so it helps to move most of my arm and wrist while strumming ;-)

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