[fab_margarita]

Helloo Everyone!
I'm trying to play Bob Dylan Lay Lady Lay, but I just don't get the strumming pattern..
can anyone help??

Thanks!

[TheSwedishScream]

oh man..that's a nice, nice song...listen to the song dude...its really easy to pickup on the pattern/timing...and even so, why would you want to strum it like him? do it your own way man.

[MakoMako]

oh man..that's a nice, nice song...listen to the song dude...its really easy to pickup on the pattern/timing...and even so, why would you want to strum it like him? do it your own way man.

I think the big thing is, he'd like to know how the original artist does it. That way, once he has the "correct" way down on playing it, he could have a much better sense of how much on his own he could go. Since, sometimes, strumming a song completely your own way sort of screws it up.

[Grizzly Adams]

A simple downup down- downup downup would do it. 2 eigth strums, a quarter strum, and 4 eigth strums.

[cheguevara_007]

What I do is find the pendelum stroke in the song (the up and down strumming pattern that follows the rythmn of the song) and just hit the strings up or down according to the requirements of the songwriters style. Then I play it how I would've if I had wrote the song. At the end of the day, it's all about how you played the song.

[Captain_Trips]

yeah just slightly changing or personalizing the voicing of the strum pattern can really help to personalize a song. usually I just memorize the song musicly in my head and I can play to that . . . but that I can only do with songs I have heard hundreds of times. after I started playing guitar I never listen to music the same. I used to just sit back and enjoy it and now its a complex study.

[cheguevara_007]

I play drums, bass, guitar, plus I sing, so just imagine how bad I rip music apart. Yeah, you just never listen to music the same way...Drives my girlfriend up the f*cking walls! I say music as a musician is a disease.

[Captain_Trips]

the most powerful drug . . . and its a good thing

[fab_margarita]

Hey Thanks guys!
I kinda just started to play guitar so I'm not really good at just listening to something and knowing the pattern, but hopefully I'll be able to as I get better.

Thanks again! Oh and by the way I'm a girl.
Thanks!

[ninjato]

There was a time I viewed the guitar in a percussive context.

Don't think of strumming as strumming, but more or less as a way of keeping a beat like tapping your foot or hitting your hands againsts your sides. DOnt be overly concerned about the strum pattern. It will work itself out. Just look at it from a percussive point of view.

[noodle69]

There was a time I viewed the guitar in a percussive context.

Don't think of strumming as strumming, but more or less as a way of keeping a beat like tapping your foot or hitting your hands againsts your sides. DOnt be overly concerned about the strum pattern. It will work itself out. Just look at it from a percussive point of view.

hehehe .....that is EXACTLY what strumming is !

the strum patterns become obvious after a while , when realising that they can be either UP or DOWN !

it really isnt guitar brain surgery !

you have to force yourself to listen harder and closer to music to understand it !

[ninjato]

hehehe .....that is EXACTLY what strumming is !

the strum patterns become obvious after a while , when realising that they can be either UP or DOWN !

it really isnt guitar brain surgery !

you have to force yourself to listen harder and closer to music to understand it !

I wanted to clear it up for beginners. Sometimes they don't see the connections.