How to Strum with a Percussive "Slap" — A Must-Know Technique!

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Hey there, friends! Quick lesson where I walk you through learning the percussive slap-strum technique. This lets you make a percussive thwack! as part of your down-strum motion, by means of muting the strings with your strumming hand. This technique is quite tricky to get the hang of at first, but I have a three-step process I’ll walk you through in this video. I suggest working on each of these steps on their own, as part of your practice routine - and before long you’ll be ready to play this full technique.

0:00 Introduction
1:05 Silencing the Strings Cleanly
3:10 Proper Pick Motion
4:39 Making the Slap Sound
6:27 Example Strum Patterns

For long-time viewers of my channel.... back in lesson number 197 (many years back) I originally tackled this same topic - though I didn’t show the helpful point-of-view camera angle. I also used a slightly different step-by-step how-to process that I wanted to teach differently this time around. But if you’re curious to see my older video, check it out here:    • How to slap strum (percussive muting ...