I’ll demonstrate some examples and practice tips for you to work on to help develop your strumming technique. In Figure 2, I apply this strumming technique to a chord progression. When moving my hand like this, I don’t always strum the strings, even though the down-up motion is constant. In those holes of silence, my right hand is swinging over the strings without touching them. I learned a lot about rhythm guitar from listening to and watching Nile Rodgers and Prince play, and also chatting with Nile about rhythm guitar techniques.