Strumming: All About Up Strums | Guitar for Beginners

Summary by Krater

Justin Sandercoe from JustinGuitar explains how to play upstrums on the guitar, emphasizing the importance of using a thin pick and focusing the stroke on the three or four thinnest strings rather than all of them.

From the video

Answers: How do I play upstrums on the guitar?

• Guitar upstrums
• Guitar picking technique
• Strumming patterns
• Guitar for beginners

What it concludes

• Using a thin pick makes strumming significantly easier.
• Upstrums come in between downstrums.
• An upstrum should typically only sound the three or four thinnest strings rather than all of them.
• Focusing upstrums on the thinnest strings sounds better and prevents the difficulty of trying to strum all strings on chords like D minor and A minor.