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Now I will show you those symbols that will be important for you. There are only very few, we do want to keep everything as simple as possible. You need them to be able to play a rhythm with you right hand.

I have drawn a diagram for you below. It represents a section of the fingerboard of a guitar, namely the part of the strings just above the sound hole. This is nothing more than the view of the strings above the sound hole. Now this is not about frets anymore, like with the chords, but about the six strings as such. Here, the bass strings are again at the bottom and the treble strings on top.

A thick black dot in my figures always represents a picking of the bass.

The arrow pointing up means: you have to strum/stroke the marked strings on the guitar downwards (Down).

The arrow pointing down means: you have to strum/stroke the marked strings on the guitar upwards (Up).

All the figures that I will show you start from the left. So here, first the picking, then one Down and one Up. Later, the fingerpicking-labels will be added to the mere picking patterns. So far everything clear?

Here, below the text, you have a good example of a song that is strummed with only one Down. Of course you can accompany every song like this, each with a single very light down before you have to confidence to try the various patterns. This is simple but a good method to first develop a sense of rhythm. For each bold word, you make a strum downwards over the strings with your right thumb.