Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 9 – Strumming Eighth Note Chord Progressions

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Now that you are familiar with the basics of countingstrumming and tapping your foot in time with eighth notes, we can turn our attention to some fun chord progressions that use eighth notes.

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Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 6 – Muting and Understanding Rests

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In our previous tutorial, we looked at how whole note, half note and quarter note rests are notated.

Now it’s time to apply your new knowledge to chord progressions.  We are also going to cover how to mute strings so you get a nice clean sound.

For this example, we are going to use A, D and E major chords.

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