OK, maybe let me get started with some advice. I'm not real proud, I don't think, of my rhythm (or strumming) technique. For the most part in Country, should I be using all down strokes, or a combination of up and down, or is is just song-specific - I like to play alot of Ballads, and slow mushy songs? I seem to always be going up and down, when It sounds like I shouldn't. Sometimes it just doesn't sound right to me.