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== Homework ==
* Learn what makes a good strumming technique and practice strumming in time with the beat. First make sure all your downstrokes are lined up to the beats, then mix in upstrokes on the 8th notes between beats.
* Practice sustaining chords for multiple beats, using "phantom strokes" to keep your hand/arm moving in time.
* Practice the various rhythmic patterns towards the top of this page on various chord shapes and progressions we've learned.
* Practice playing 16th-note strumming in short bursts. Be sure to use a metronome and count each stroke. Start slow and build speed but be sure you maintain good rhythm.
* Practice triplets and other tuplets. Play through the examples of how to realign your downstrokes on the beats.
* Practice the various swing feels but focus on the common quarter/eighth note triplet.
* Practice sliding into chords (from both directions) as a way to embellish the downbeat or the backbeat.
* Practice accenting backbeats and Raggae rhythms. Apply this to various progressions.
* Practice everything on the [[Rhythm Exercises]] page.
* Practice the vamping pattern above; try to come up with some of your own.
* Practice the comping patterns above. Listen to some jazz and pay attention to the accompaniment instruments during solos to understand the complementary aspects of the style of playing.
== Q & A ==