dave's style of strumming

Mindsmoke · Unread post by **Mindsmoke** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:13 pm

I've been playing for a couple years without any lessons, and have reached a wall in my progress, particularly strumming. Although i've seen many of dave's live shows at The Gorge in WA State, i've never gotten close enough to really view his playing. I know his songs well, but for the life of me i can't figue out how he strums like he does. Oviously tabs can't convey this info well. Any insight on this mystery would be greatly appreciated. Also, do you know of any DMB dvd's with camera's zoomed on him playing the whole time? Or any site with vids of dave playing?

Enlighten me :shock:

Unread post by **jkanter** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:54 pm

Mindsmoke wrote:I've been playing for a couple years without any lessons, and have reached a wall in my progress, particularly strumming. Although i've seen many of dave's live shows at The Gorge in WA State, i've never gotten close enough to really view his playing. I know his songs well, but for the life of me i can't figue out how he strums like he does. Oviously tabs can't convey this info well. Any insight on this mystery would be greatly appreciated. Also, do you know of any DMB dvd's with camera's zoomed on him playing the whole time? Or any site with vids of dave playing?

Enlighten me

I am currently working on a huge project that will allow you to see strumming........it will be a while(couple months) but it will be 100% worth it when it's done....everyone here will be getting previews of what is going on also....peace

Mindsmoke · Unread post by **Mindsmoke** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 11:09 pm

that sounds great....can't wait

Mindsmoke · Unread post by **Mindsmoke** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:51 am

anyone care to explain how better to learn dave's style of strumming? for instance, the Crash intro. i've got the bass down (the easy part), but after each bass note, the strumming on the D,G,B strings sounds to me like:

down(pause), up, down,up, down

goddamn hard to do consistently/evenly, at least for this learner. how do you learn to to do it without breaking your hand practicing that viscous chord spread for hours?

any other insight for generally practicing and learning dave's strum style? i'm sure someone must have some good advice.

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 12:06 pm

for crash i just do down up down up.. sounds good that way, may not be right. im not that great at strumming, but for the amount of time ive been playing im not bad.

Unread post by **jkanter** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 12:36 pm

Mindsmoke wrote:anyone care to explain how better to learn dave's style of strumming? for instance, the Crash intro. i've got the bass down (the easy part), but after each bass note, the strumming on the D,G,B strings sounds to me like:

down(pause), up, down,up, down

goddamn hard to do consistently/evenly, at least for this learner. how do you learn to to do it without breaking your hand practicing that viscous chord spread for hours?

any other insight for generally practicing and learning dave's strum style? i'm sure someone must have some good advice.

I don't have a guitar on me right now(will have my new Martin in about 3hrs) but I believe crash goes

Down(pause), Down, Up, Down, Up THEN
Down(pause), Down, Up, Down

I believe that's right, but I'm not positive without a guitar...anyway, good luck...just keep at it and listen and watch the video's on this site...peace all

lordmelt · Unread post by **lordmelt** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:20 pm

i know this is kind of off topic, but i love the pic, mindsmoke, i tried to get a nice bud pic on my name, but it fucked up, could you give me a tip on how to get mine working, it seems my idea was thought of by another, and i was beaten to the punch due to the fact i couldnt get it loaded in time, great pic, i would appreciate some advice on how you got your bud pic to show up, the one i tried to load just shows up as an X

CPTino3001 · Unread post by **CPTino3001** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:22 pm

Here's my strumming pattern...

Bass, Down (Pause), Down, Up
Bass, Down, Up, Down, Up
...repeat...

Kinda difficult to sing w/ but it sounds extremely accurate...

Speenis · Unread post by **Speenis** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:50 pm

lordmelt wrote:i know this is kind of off topic, but i love the pic, mindsmoke, i tried to get a nice bud pic on my name, but it fucked up, could you give me a tip on how to get mine working, it seems my idea was thought of by another, and i was beaten to the punch due to the fact i couldnt get it loaded in time, great pic, i would appreciate some advice on how you got your bud pic to show up, the one i tried to load just shows up as an X

I found a kindof scary/funny pic of the WTC on 9/11. It has smoke all over and the caption says something like "Mayor Giuliani legalized marijuana today."

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:00 pm

BigSpeen3436 wrote:
lordmelt wrote:i know this is kind of off topic, but i love the pic, mindsmoke, i tried to get a nice bud pic on my name, but it fucked up, could you give me a tip on how to get mine working, it seems my idea was thought of by another, and i was beaten to the punch due to the fact i couldnt get it loaded in time, great pic, i would appreciate some advice on how you got your bud pic to show up, the one i tried to load just shows up as an X
I found a kindof scary/funny pic of the WTC on 9/11. It has smoke all over and the caption says something like "Mayor Giuliani legalized marijuana today."

thats horrible...

Speenis · Unread post by **Speenis** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:37 pm

It is pretty bad, but I found it useful because at the time that I saw it, I was doing a report on the legalization of marijuana.

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:39 pm

why would you have to do a report on that?

gravedigger · Unread post by **gravedigger** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:48 pm

I think they should legalize it. It'll probably be legal in Canada before too long.

ryopan · Unread post by **ryopan** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:53 pm

on the strumming stuff: just find the beat of the strumming by tapping along w/ your foot or whatever. then try to match it up w/ your hand, then put a guitar infront of it. i had a real hard time w/ figuring out strumming. i eventually gave up and just strummed what sounded right (or close). w/ time though youll figure out whats goin on. i hated upstrokes but now i find myself using them more than downstrokes. sadly this guitar crap takes time! :evil:

ryan

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:56 pm

yeah guitar would be so much easier if everything was natural lol

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