[dawson59]

Hi all

I'm new to this guitar playing and I am wondering if anyone can assist with a query.

I want to know how to strum according to the notation I see in guitar songbooks.
It isn't explained anywhere in the songbook, so the assumption is that we know what it all means.

I don't read music so I don't understand a lot of what's in the songbooks except for the chords and the tab.

The markings that show the strumming are single slashes like this / in bold along the staff. Some of these slashes have a kind of join one to another, and some have double bold horizontal lines above them. Clear as mud huh?

Sorry I can't describe them better, but if anyone can shed light on this for me I would be grateful, coz it's driving me mad trying to figure it out. Or if there's a lesson on strumming on this site please let me know.

thanks a lot