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Ok, so now things are difficult! We start on beat but quickly switch off beat from the eighth note on the 1st measure 2nd beat. This persists all the way until the 2nd beat of the 2nd measure. This is very common in strumming patterns - the rhythmic pattern switches from on to off beat from measure to measure. Listen to '''R.E.M. ''' ''Losing My Religion '' or '''Radiohead ''' ''Fake Plastic Trees '' to name two off the top of my head.
''Note: we are sticking to using only down strokes at this point. I recommend that - get the idea of counting and playing off-beat engrained in your head before trying to worry about whether you should be down or up picking any particular note(s). Later when we get into strumming, we'll see this gets even a bit more complicated.''