This pattern adds a nice motion to your chords. Notice that the main technique is targeting your pick to alternate between striking individual bass notes followed by the higher notes of the chord ...

Use the same picking hand pattern as before, but this time move your pick between the fifth and sixth strings. Hold the chord shape with your first, second and fourth fingers while moving your third ...

This riff is from '60s British supergroup Cream, featuring Eric Clapton, and this single note riff is a great one to get you started with changing strings while picking single notes. During this riff ...

If you are struggling with how to strum a guitar - this is the lesson for you. Each of the strumming patterns in this lesson is progressive in that they build off each other.