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Originally Posted by lcjones
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Beats Per Minute
Then you have beats per minute (bpm). You can have a 4/4 beat per measure melody with 120 beats per minute. So, with 4/4 and 120 bpm, you would have 30 measures of 4 beats per measure to do in one minute. That's a fairly uptempo rhythm. Same thing with 3/4 and 120 bpm. Just 30 measures of 3 beats each. Ok, that's the math 
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Great info Les, although I think that with 120 bpm it takes
40 measures of 3/4. Just a small detail. Oh, and for those struggling with strumming... Listening to various simple strumming patterns and learning to recognise them will help a lot. The Neilsonite lessons Stratrat suggested are pretty good. Also these
strumming lessons used to be a great help to me way back. The examples use some recognizable tunes, so that helps a bit. The key is to learn to recognise the strumming patterns and practice 'm quite slow so you can comfortably get them engrained in your muscle memory. After that, it becomes auto-pilot stuff
