strumming patterns

greetings fellow enthusiasts, can someone help me with bob dylan strumming pattern/rythym for "your gonna make me lonesome when you go" (blood on the tracks)trying to get my ears round it but struggling.will keep trying.Court and Spark

I don't know this particular song, but try having a back and forth motion that's regular, then, pick or don't pick the strings.
What you get is a pattern where when you pick on downstrokes, it means you are playing on the beat, and on upstrokes, in between the beats.

thanks for the advice, if you get the chance listen to Dylans Blood on the tracks its a must if yor an old folkie like me, his stumming techniques seem very difficult to replicate, will keep strumming, Cheers.

Take a look at This Thread for some more pointers.

BTW, "Court and Spark" still stands as one of the best records of all time, IMHO.

Dylan's strumming patterns are strange, and can be very hard to replicate, partly because of his love of irregularity. You can rarely keep a precise pattern throughout if you want to mimic exactly what he does. However, there are some basic patterns that uses, especially for Blood on the Tracks, where he seems to be using a particular style.
Here's an attempt at showing how he strums.
The song is at a tempo of about 108.
If you tap your foot at that tempo, then do this:
Play downstrokes on quaver beats and upstrokes at the semiquaver beats, if you get my meaning; ie, count every quaver as a downbeat and every odd semiquaver as an upbeat.
Strum two downstrokes to the first beat at quaver intervals. The second downbeat should last for a dotted quaver though, taking you a semiquaver in to the next beat. Immediately play an upstroke on the odd semiquaver then down on the quaver then up again on the last semiquaver before the third beat. Repeat the pattern, which lasts for two beats.
Hope this helps. If you don't uderstand what I'm talking about please tell me and I will try to correct it.
By the way, thanks for asking the question, it's made me get Blood on the Tracks out again, which I haven't listened to in a while - great album.

Hi Bardsley many thanks for the response. As a fraudster trying to learn the guitar without learning to actually read and fully understand musical notation I dont understand your instructions. Im trying to bash out tunes with the aid of chord diagrams and listening to the songs.Im trying to teach myself do you think this a wise thing to do? Its great that so many people are willing to share advice through this forum. I think when learning this way its difficult to know where to aim for in terms of difficulty. Thanks again,Court and Spark.(lordathestrings, is there a better singer/songwriter than Joni?)

Originally posted by court and spark
...(lordathestrings, is there a better singer/songwriter than Joni?)

Around here, asking questons about who is better/best at anything is likely to land you chest-deep in oposing opinions. As for JM, I don't lock myself into any particular kind of style. She is [u]one[/u] of the best!

Well, I must admit that strumming patterns are much more easily demonstrated than explained, because they are fairly instinctual. I tried that without first looking at that link Lordathestrings had posted. The idea of dividing up the bars into numbers would work pretty well.
Do you have a metronome? It's a lot easier to explain if you do, because then it can be explained in terms of when the clicks fall.