Hey Tomasz,

If you have ever tapped your foot to a country or folk song, you have felt the boom-chick.

It is dead simple. Hit a bass note (the boom), then strum the rest of the chord (the chick). Boom-chick, boom-chick. Your thumb handles the bass, your fingers or pick handle the strum. (Boom-chick is waiting for you inside.)

It instantly makes one guitar sound like a whole band. Try it slow on a G, then a C, then a D, and keep the boom-chick steady.

THEN LET THE BASS START WALKING

Once boom-chick feels easy, stop booming the same string. On a G, thumb the low G on beat 1, then the open D string on beat 3. Root, then 5th, and the song starts to walk.

Your thumb becomes the bass player, and it is the first step toward Travis picking. Acoustia goes all the way there.

The strum studio has this pattern and a dozen more, ready when you are. This week a full year of it is $249.

Cap on backwards, boom-chick locked in.

Talk soon,