Learn & Play Song: A Beautiful Mind

Let's try this together. I'll do the one-bar count-in and then we'll start. As always you're more than welcome to just watch and listen a few times before playing along yourself.

Instructor Anders Mouridsen
Tutorial:
Strumming Patterns
Styles:
Any Style
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Learn & Play Song: A Beautiful Mind By Anders Mouridsen

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Questions & Answers

3 months ago
Hi, I'm not having any issues with rhythm or chord changes but with strumming with a pick! It's so frustrating, I can play all the lesson examples fine with my fingers but with a pick I over-strum, under-strum, miss the strum ect, it sounds terrible. Aside from just continuing to practice, do you have any tips to get a nice, even strum with a pick?
Mike Olekshy 3 months ago

Hello - thanks so much for your question! The biggest tip I can give is to go slowly! Play the examples with a pick, but much slower at first. This gives you some time to focus on your hand position, gripping the pick, and performing a smooth strum with the pick. Practice this over and over, and you'll find it will start to become more and more comfortable. Keep at it!

8 months ago
I'm struggling to change chords correctly fast enough. Should i keep going practicing this lesson and master it before moving onto the next lesson?
Mike Olekshy 7 months ago

Hello, and thanks so much for the question! Keep practicing the chord changes at a slower tempo (use the speed buttons on the left side of the video frame) where you can make the changes fast enough to keep time. If you do this, then you can move on to the next lesson as well. But keep practicing everything at a slower tempo that is comfortable. If you keep doing this consistently, you will get faster and faster over time.

1 year ago
What does the "mf" on the music sheet mean?
Josh Workman 1 year ago

mf= mezzo forte, Italian for moderately loud. Italian has been the default language for written musical notation terms for centuries.