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March 13, 2024 In Gear Strumming Tagged as Picks Strumming By Dan Thorpe

When You Hate Your Guitar Pick

I had a great call yesterday with Denise.

She won a 30-minute Zoom call with me from in the Dan Thorpe Acoustic Academy.

March 2, 2024 In Strumming Tagged as Strumming By Dan Thorpe

My Favourite Quote About Strumming

Many years ago, I first heard the following quote:

“The fretting hand is the brain and the strumming hand is the soul”.

August 30, 2023 In Strumming Technique Tagged as Strumming By Dan Thorpe

Adding a Heartbeat to Your Strumming

Lately, I’ve been talking about fingerstyle, but in the next couple of emails…

I’ll be talking about other subjects such as strumming, the blues, and picking-hand “anchoring” (with some advice on these subjects).

December 2, 2021 In Practice Strumming Tagged as Common mistakes Strumming By Dan Thorpe

7 Strumming Mistakes I See a Lot

There are a whole bunch of mistakes I see guitarists make a lot.

Here is a little list of some of these for you to watch out for…

Beware of these strumming mistakes!

June 14, 2021 In Practice Strumming Tagged as Efficiency of learning Learning Strumming By Dan Thorpe

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Music Quizzes, Strumming Fun, and Why You Shouldn’t Overdo It)

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including why it’s bad too overdo it, music quizzes, and more…

April 28, 2021 In Gear Practice Techniques Reader Question Strumming Tagged as Practice Reader question Strumming By Dan Thorpe

Two Interesting Reader Comments and Questions (Repairing a Beat-Up Old Guitar & Learning to Strum Faster)

Here are two more interesting emails I have got lately.

Hope you find these useful…

March 29, 2021 In Practice Practice Techniques Strumming Tagged as Learning to play guitar Practice Methods Strumming patterns By Dan Thorpe

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Fun Strumming Patterns, Cramming, and Learning a Few Notes at a Time)

Welcome to a new Monday post on 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including fun strumming patterns, cramming, and more…

January 31, 2021 In Strumming Tagged as Strumming Strumming patterns By Dan Thorpe 2

A Home-Strumming Queen

Want to learn to strum guitar ? Cheer up, Sleepy Jean. Oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer and a…

Home-Strumming Queen

December 1, 2020 In Fingerpicking Strumming Tagged as classical position classical posture learning guitar Strumming patterns By Dan Thorpe

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Classical Guitar Position, Fear, and the Importance of Patterns)

Here is another of the weekly posts with 3 thoughts about guitar, music, and life, including letting in fear, a question about the classical guitar playing position, and more.

November 10, 2020 In Fingerpicking Strumming Tagged as Fingerstyle Strumming By Dan Thorpe

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Some Strumming Tips, Music vs Politics, and Just Go for It)

Here is another ‘beginning of the week’ post with 3 of my thoughts on guitar, music, and life, including tips for strumming guitar, thoughts on how music can bring people together, and more.

I hope you enjoy…