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When you make a guitar song are you not supposed to do strumming?

untrue [Edit] [Delete] 8 replies 18:38, 27 January '13

Are you supposed to just do staccato strums?

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  • Like Dreaming of You by The Coral

    if you were just playing it on acoustic you'd do this standard boring strum probably:

    http://vocaroo.com/i/s1qnnI3Tg2oH

    but in the song the guitar is like this:

    http://vocaroo.com/i/s1yFPw9dtlNr

    so is that how you're supposed to always do it when you make a song?

    untrue | 27 Jan '13, 19:51 | X
  • i think most songs start out

    with fairly standard and boring guitar playing. But they develop over time as you play them. Plus if the writer plays the song in front other musicians or a producer then those people will suggest ideas that the writer won't see due to the writer being too bogged down in the song.

    __Low | 27 Jan '13, 20:35 | X
  • You're not allowed to have guitars in songs at all anymore

    Icarus-Smicarus | 27 Jan '13, 20:46 | X
    umlaut_ampersand and monoshono this'd this
  • uhhhhhhhhhh

    ethricdouble | 27 Jan '13, 20:56 | X
  • Beatles songs of a certain tempo do the same thing with the staccato strum

    untrue | 27 Jan '13, 21:04 | X
  • dont think there are any rules, but I guess when you write a song just strumming the chords makes sense but once youve got other instruments involved it isn't as necessary to have the guitar backing the whole thing up so you can use it to add a different emphasis

    ThingsThatFly | 27 Jan '13, 21:11 | X
    furio this'd this
  • You should probably always play guitar like in that Justin Timberlake song where he says 'drums' before the break.

    TheoGB | 27 Jan '13, 21:25 | X
  • Do what sounds best for the character of the song

    there is no right or wrong way of doing it.

    Phil9064 | 27 Jan '13, 21:51 | X
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