Beat Strum Acoustic Guitar - Percussive guitar technique - Video
PUBLISHED:  Jan 18, 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Further your strumming technique with the Beat Strum method, getting more drum beat like grooves and rhythms into your flat pick playing, incorporating kick drum and snare like tones.

Full instructions are in the Beat Strum Acoustic Guitar handbook in Kindle eBook and paperback format available in the Amazon bookstores. https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Strum-Acoustic-Guitar-Percussion-ebook/dp/B097LNC4S4/

More supporting content is available at https://www.beatstrum.com

This combines the method I've previously released online:
Bluegrass 'chop' percussive strumming (part 1) - http://youtu.be/Jq7vdQAyU_U

As mentioned, some favourite picks for other musicians using similar themes with the acoustic guitar body (finger based):

1) The awesome Preston Reed whom introduced and influenced me on tap percussive playing back in the late 1990s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnQvzsmlwlg
2) Andy McKee, enough said! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
3) Guitaro5000 - inventive use of means for the snare hit tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guFPy72XFgA
4) Jon Gomm - singer-songwriter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw
5) Tuck Andress, percussive finger jazz guitar guru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5ITJBqJxM
6) John Butler - master tapper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJf_ybyVo
7) James Hill on the ukulele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5HsIpH5qY

I've also been (slowly) releasing other videos on my channel using this technique with various songs so please check them out too. Enjoy!
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