Topic: strum patterns

i think all songs should have strum patterns

Re: strum patterns

Hi Joe - I see you've been a member for years but have made only 2 posts, both regarding strum patterns. I don't guess that you are the real Joe Walsh are you? I think of the real Joe Walsh as primarily a lead guitarist, so he certainly wouldn't be asking about strum patterns.

Anyway - If you'd spend a bit of time researching the site, you would realize that chordie is primarily a search engine and does not host any songs. (read up here). http://www.chordie.com/about.php If you are to lazy to click the link, the relevant portion is below:

This service is a search engine specialising on chopro-files. As most other search engines, it does not host any of the indexed files. Chordie does not exercise any editorial control over the information users may find at these locations and is neither associated with nor responsible for the content on these sites. 

You see, in order for chordie to have strum patterns, the original hosting site would have to have the strum patterns and the vast majority of sites do not.

Furthermore, IMO strum patterns are something that are felt better than copied - I doubt that I ever strum the same song the exact same way more than once. I don't mean to be mean here (although I HATE strum pattern questions), but honestly - you and others will do much better listening and feeling the rhythm rather than trying to learn a specific pattern.  Make the song your own - strum what feels / sounds good. The same song can usually be done in many different patterns / styles.

Rule No. 1 - If it sounds good - it is good!