{"id":600,"date":"2025-04-25T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:29:32","slug":"old-faithful-strum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/old-faithful-strum\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Faithful Strum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what is often called the &#8220;Old Faithful&#8221; strum for guitar players. The version I describe here consists of <b>Down-Up-Down-Up&#8211;Up-Down-Up<\/b>. 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, <b>Down- -Down &#8211; &#8211; Up-Down-Up<\/b>. Or even <b>Down &#8211; &#8211; Down-Up &#8211; &#8211; Up-Down-Up<\/b>.  The important thing about this strum is that missing 3rd downstroke.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1058396319?h=d2e365e58d\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe &#8220;Island Strum&#8221; used by ukulele players is like the third version above. In other words: <b>Down &#8211; &#8211; Down-Up &#8211; &#8211; Up-Down-Up<\/b> where you still miss the 3rd downstroke, but also don&#8217;t play the first beat upstroke. Say it like this: &#8220;Down-Down-Up-Up-Down-Up&#8221;. This is demonstrated in the video in this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what is often called the &#8220;Old Faithful&#8221; strum for guitar players. The version I describe here consists of Down-Up-Down-Up&#8211;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 &#8211; &#8211; Up-Down-Up. Or even Down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-tips","category-strums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}