So if you were able to play along nicely with the Blessed be Your name backing track, great!
Now let's add a bit of an upstroke to the pattern. It goes like this.
The difference with the previous pattern is that quick DOWNstroke UPstoke at the end.
Thus, DOWN down down DOWN down down DOWN down up. (*DOWN is all caps and bold to mean accented)
Compare:
Pattern #1: DOWN down down DOWN down down DOWN (down)
Pattern #1 with upstroke twist: DOWN down down DOWN down down DOWN (down up)
The gap between the downstroke and the upstroke is HALF of that of the other strokes (ie, between 1 and +). Looking at the notation, the downstroke and upstroke are 16th notes. All the rest are 8th notes.
Ready for a couple of challenges?
Challenge 1: Play the pattern 4 times without stopping or making a mistake.
Challenge 2: Play along with this backing track from Vineyard Worship's 'Come, Now is the time to worship'.
This is song is a bit tricky because of the change of key that happens in the middle of the song.
Here are the chords when the song begins in the key of D.
And here are the chords when the key changes to E.
Here is the song sheet.
EXTRA:
The names of the chords that you played above are simplified. For easy reference for players. They are shortened names however. For instance,
Dsus is actually Dsus4
*'sus' means suspended, not sustained
Here are the chords again. With their real names.
UP NEXT:
Do you find it hard to move from one chord to another, like you feel you are not fast enough to transfer from say 'G chord' to 'D chord'?
In my next post, I will share a trick you can do to make playing from chord to chord easier. Especially for upbeat songs.
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