Creativemind

I play it like a Cadd9 chord but press the 4th finger down (the one next to the pinky) to make sure all 3 of the bottom strings are pressed on the 3rd fret.

Yeah dunno, something about it just doesn't sound good sometimes. I'm not sure what it is. I'm always having to tidy it up a lot in my daw (didn't on my Soundcloud example but it was a basic strum really and my second take). I forgot to ask as well, at the ends of the bars on my example would you flick your wrist or just move your hand up and down?

Thanks for that. Just tried that and this is what I came up with (Is a little quiet). First bit is just the bass line and then the strum with a kick drum then the strum, bass line and kick drum together:- Do you count when you strum?

Hi All! When I'm playing the guitar I've come to realise my strum patterns aren't very good. I can play pretty good but when I try to record in a daw, it's doesn't really sound very neat. It's like the strum has no specific pattern. Here's a link to me playing a song I wrote on You Tube:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwhErbH7iME I mean what I play in that video is ok because you don't really notice with nothing in the background (drums, bass etc) till you go to record it, and then I realise the strum pattern in the video is made up on the spot so has no structure. I strum what just feels natural. I looked at a video on You Tube the other day and the guy was saying about 1e&a 2e&a etc which I could do easily but I seem to have no art for the strum patterns when I write songs as such. I am self taught if that makes any difference. Also, another video I watched a couple of weeks ago, the guy said, he cringes when he sees the up/down arrows on guitar chord sheets which demonstrates the up / down strokes and he said that they were a load of crap and that you do a steady 1/16th, 1/8th note or whatever strum and it was what you leave out that created the pattern, is that the case? Can anyone advise me on any techniques or things I could practice to help me here? Thanks!