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   From: rd23@yahoo.com   
      
   "jgoska"  wrote in message   
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   >I was looking at this month's Flatpicker Magazine and then looked at   
   > the cover and realized that it was Acoustic Guitar Magazine, but it   
   > has   
   > a flatpicker for and editor now, and it is now all articles on How to   
   > Flatpick Good.  I do make some effort to keep up with the times, so I   
   > have gone out and purchased a flatpick, although the sales girl said I   
   > looked "kind of old" to be buying one.  I have run into a couple of   
   > problems.  On page 91, flatpicker Richard Johnson explains that short   
   > scale guitars have "more fundamental overtones."  This has me stumped.   
   > Can any flatpicker explain what a fundamental overtone is?.  The other   
   > problem is that flatpicking uses two symbols, one of which looks like   
   > a   
   > "V" and the other looks something like a table.  The magazine explains   
   > that the table means stroke down and the V means stroke up, but its   
   > the   
   > old problem on the guitar, if you stroke down physically (towards your   
   > leg), you are stroking up musically (towards the high strings), and if   
   > you stroke down musically (towards the low strings) you are stroking   
   > up   
   > physically (towards your chin), so I am stumped again, and I am afraid   
   > that I might be playing these tunes upside down.  Any help would be   
   > appreciated.  Thank you.   
   >   
   Just learn the chords and keep the strumming steady.  As for what   
   magazines print... sometimes it isn't worth it to take them too   
   literally.   
      
   Just strum down on the |  and up on the v  thus you may have something   
   like;   
      1 v 1 v     1 v 1 v    or  1 1 v 1  or any combination of down and up   
   strums.   
      
   Count 1 and 2 and 3 and 4    --- strum down on 1 up (v) on 'and'  down   
   on 2 up on "and"   
      
   etc.    Count 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.... strum down on the numbers and up   
   on the "and"   
      
   Hit the BASS string with more emphasis... |   
      
   4/4 timing that is.....   
      
   3/4  would be  | v |     down-up-down....   1 and 2 and 3 and....   1   
   and 2 and 3 and...   
      
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