Chord Phrasing. How??

I've just read abit about chord phrasing on GuitarAlliance http://guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/chord_phrasing.htm. They turn simple chord patterns into really great melodies. They ask for subscription so we cant read the whole article so I figure just go here and ask you guys.

I simply use chord to play along when i am singing and it works ok for country songs and so but strumming all the notes gets boring quite quickly. What is the common rule is chord phrasing and please recommend some of your favourite picking pattern.
Is that you just get the tonic note on the strong beat or somehow?

Like me, i only know the simple pattern of picking up and down steadily. like E-G-B-e-B-G-E

Please help. Thank you

I just looked at the website you referred to. Looks pretty good.

Basically, there are five different Chord forms. C-A-G-E-D. The important word there is FORM. Of course their are varations of these forms, such as sus, aud, dim, etc.

Each of these forms have associated scale forms. The can be Pentatonic, Major, Minor or some other mode. What you are doing with chord phrasing is combining the chords with single notes, double-stops, triads, etc to create a more melodic progession. Little Wing is a perfect example, and so is Sisters by Steve Vai.

This approach is so foreign to many guitar players that it's hard to grasp. My advice is to look into a book by Bill Edwards called Fretboard Logic SE. Here is the link: Fretboard Logic

Hope that helps.