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Accent Your Strumming | Rhythm Guitar

Whether it be rock, funk, blues, jazz, country… accents are another way to excel your rhythm playing. The idea of accents is to really over exaggerate certain beats. Make the beats you’re accenting LOUD the other beats you’re QUIET.

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