#strumming patterns

[ukulelesunanimous]

Go ahead and get your strum on with our easy to try strumming guide! 😊

[kazoosandfannypacks]

How To Get Good At Art:

Figure out what you're scared to draw.

Draw it.

I'm 100% serious. Are you scared to draw hands? Fill pages of sketchbooks with hands. Scared to draw faces? Draw so, so many faces. Scared to draw animals? Draw animals. Scared to use colors. Use colors. Scared to shade? Start shading.

A lot of people think you need innate talent to be good at drawing, but the only talent it takes is the ability to draw what you're scared of. Art is a learned skill, and the more you practice at it, the more capable you'll become. If something is scary to draw, it's because you haven't practiced at it. You've never done it before, (or you've barely done it, or you've done it once and saw how your first steps faltered and were terrified to take the next one,) so of course it's scary. Draw it anyways. Keep drawing it. Don't stop until you're not scared, until you're so familiar with it you don't want to stop anymore anyways.

Figure out what you're scared to draw, and draw it until it doesn't scare you anymore.

[oliviawebsite]

WHY DO I KEEP ACCIDENTALLY WRITING SKA?! i guess it was meant to happen eventually :)

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

And oooohhhhhhhhhhh-oh-oh-ohhhh

[shvdowsdrowned]

Learned a song on guitar n now my fingies hurt <3

[northwestofinsanity]

Hello? I have never seen this video in such good quality?

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Sometimes I feel very sad that I didn’t just focus on one creative skill. I look at my art some days and go I wish I’d spent all my time making only that, because that way it would look better and I’d do more and it wouldn’t matter if I couldn’t write very well because my art would be amazing and I’d be able to make the stuff I really want to and maybe even get a job related to it and I wouldn’t feel like so much time was wasted. And often times it really does feel like you’re wasting time and everything is telling you to just pick something to focus on so it can mean something and you can never seem to pick one of anything.

And then other days I feel like an absolute GOD. Anyone else able to write your own fic and then draw art for it just because you can? Can you make an edit/amv after writing a silly little analysis post on the show/character that is so perfectly on beat and fits the lyrics and with transitions so slapping you get chills while watching? Can you write a short silly ditty on the guitar about how you’re feeling using the eight chords know and belt it out only a little bit off key then do a choppy little animation of your sona singing it?

I may not be the most skilled at all of the above, and it can be a little lonely to be a one man band who doesn’t play half as well as a lot of people out there, but when your power goes out or your wifi dies or you have a day off, everyone else is busy and you’re alone...

you play the best gosh dang music in existence

[taylorswiftshipsbyler]

if only I could strum my guitar correctly while singing

[eyeballsoup7310]

See, the nice thing about trying to learn a song on guitar means you learn to appreciate it in a whole new way, you get that sense of accomplishment like, hey, I can do that too now! The bad thing is that you wind up wanting to rip your ears off if you have to hear that fucking riff one more time

[hum--hallelujah]

my top FOB basslines ranking goes like Sunshine Riptide > I'm Like A Lawyer = 27 > So Good Right Now > 16 Candles = Tiffany Blews > Hum Hallelujah but also that's just off the top of my head and based halfway on technical aspects and halfway on emotional attachment so it may be subject to change 🤷‍♀️

[hilema]

Someone should force me to learn new strumming patterns

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

why is it physically impossible to find a female guitar teacher?? like good lord do i not want to learn guitar from a middle aged white man

[azures-grace]

Today is a TAD day

Unfortunately, I am WAY too tired to be listening to The Amazing Devil in front of my family

[silasbug]

i haven't played guitar or sung in a while. it's hard to sing when i'm in the fog. been trying the last few days.

these are not very good, but for the sake potentially not hating them when i listen to them a few months later, or even realizing that i'm doing better (mentally, musically)... here's some (really) bad covers. :'D

all unedited (and with loads of mistakes and off notes) because i couldn't be fucked. (just me, some mulled wine, badly strumming the guitar and bathroom acoustics). (please trust me when i say these really are not good. you've. uh. been warned).

(also please be warned that all of them have very depressing, teenage-angst lyrics lmao. these are just fun/easy to sing/play).

can never get the end/climax of this song right. beware of very.. questionable lyrics (that i messed up btw) lmao

one of my favourite songs to play because i love the simple chord progression and it's easy/comfortable for me to sing, even if i don't sound particularly good singing it. this take is way too fast and i fucked up the end. yikes.

gives me cramps in the hands (got a cramp at the end).

i forgot half of the lyrics and how to sing the latter parts ahahahaha. but otherwise i thought it was okay. i struggle with the high parts. (i did add reverb to this one). "everyone i love is gonna die" is prime edge.

yeah i know i don't sing this the way it's supposed to be sung. big whoop.

[yeats-infection]

r.l. burnside playing his song "see my jumper hanging on the line" in his yard in independence, mississippi, august 1978

[qulizalfos]

adrianne lenker. guys