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Hi, I've been trying to learn thinking about you by radiohead ; but although the chords themselves aren't a problem I can't seem to get the strumming pattern right, no matter how many times I listen to the record and try to play along it just keeps eluding me! If anybody knows the song and can offer any advice on the correct strumming it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Hi RJ, It's a pretty fast strum, don't know if this will help much but here's a guy doing it on Youtube, this was the best one I could find, most of the acoustic videos were pretty blurred so not really any use but this isn't too bad
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Thanks for the strumming pattern Dishwasher and to Starsailor for the vid, I'm sure both will be a real help ..I'm gonna go have another bash at it now I'll let you know how it goes. Hopefully I will have the song licked sometime this millenium! but I bet the neighbours are praying it will be much sooner than that!
..G.................................................. ......C Down Down Up Down Down Down Up Down Down
You can play this and many other rhythm patterns just by doing a constant down and up strum. This doesn't mean that you have to strum the strings on each up and down, what it means is that your hand is in motion and you only strum when you need to. For example:
In the first line Down Down Up Down, your hand is actually in motion like this: Down Up DownUpDown Up (bold emphases are where the strums are. Notice that the first and the third up strokes are not played. Notice the first Down is also italicized, meaning that this is the strum that you emphasize the most.
So the full pattern is:
Down Up DownUpDown Up Down Up DownUpDown Up Down Up Down Up
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Download the PDF of the 'Guitar Chord Slide Rule', print it out, fold it together and you'll have at your disposal a very neat tool that will not only show you all the positions for the main flavors of chords, but will also teach you a very important lesson about how the guitar works... It consists of a folded sleeve and six double sided inserts, instructions for cutting it out and folding it together are included with the PDF ... it's very simple to do, and if you botch it, you can simply print it out again!
..I'm gonna go have another bash at it now I'll let you know how it goes. Hopefully I will have the song licked sometime this millenium! 
but I bet the neighbours are praying it will be much sooner than that!
