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Originally Posted by kaneashiru1
... I just need to find the UDDU pattern thingies.. ^_^
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If you practice your strumming and work on different rhythms/strumming patterns, you'll be able to figure out most of the strum patterns used in songs pretty easily. It mostly just comes down to picking up the rhythm of the song and getting a feel for it on your guitar.
I find it nearly impossible to write out the U-D-D-U-D strum pattern stuff off the top of my head when somebody asks what the pattern is for a particular song - but if you were sitting in front of me, I could show you how I play it very easily. When I learn new songs, I never even think about it in terms of "OK, he's going down, down, up, down, down"....I just listen to the rhythm of the song and start playing along with it. The strum pattern seems to come pretty easily that way. I'd have a much harder time if I had a bunch of D's and U's written down in front of me and tried to figure out when to do which. Doing it by "feel" is much easier, at least to me. As Allthumbs said, it's all about the rhythm.