Category: Strums

In this video I demonstrate the ukulele strumming technique called “chucking”. It involves muting a regular stroke in a strum sequence. This is a way to occasionally dress up your strumming.

In this video we show how you can improve the quality of your strumming by missing downstrokes – either on a regular basis, or just occasionally.

Here’s what is often called the “Old Faithful” strum for guitar players. The version I describe here consists of Down-Up-Down-Up–Up-Down-Up. In other words, you miss the 3rd Downstroke. You may also hear a variation which does not include upstrokes for the first two beats. In other words, Down- -Down – – Up-Down-Up. Or even Down