Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Happy new year folks!

While back I asked about the strumming pattern in ET05, which is also in AT40 and some other lessons.

Could you elaborate on how this one goes, if it's not too much of a trouble? (Take Heart) It's a nice tune, and somehow these funky strumming patterns are not so easy to internalize just by listening.

The format (for ET05) was like this:
D (U) D (U) ..... D (U) (D) U

(D) U D (U) ..... (D) U (D) U

Thanks!

I did a down up -pattern of the main rhythm with some help from my friend Slo Mo:

- edited, the following is incorrect, do not attempt! Correct one is down below in a later post -
D (U) d u ... d u D (U)
d u D (U) ... d u d u

D:s are downstrokes, U:s upstrokes. The letters in parentheses are not played, but the motion is there.
Capital D:s are the longer chord voices, small letters for shorter voices.

Hope I figured it out right.

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/videos/tf-lesson-061-take-heart-part-1

Okay! Here we go! I played it as normal tempo then I played it very slow and more!

Hope you this video is helpful.

Thank you.

Tomo

Thanks! The "accent-variation" at 2:52-> is great for the purpose - and the slowdowns etc.

Small update, below is a strumming pattern for the intro - I think it's correct now. Some nice sounding chords in this song!

D (U) d U .. d u D U*
d u D u .. d U d u

*or u, depending on the variation