Hi, this is Pawan and I welcome you to my YouTube channel. In today's lesson, we'll be taking a look at the strumming pattern and chords for the song, Meeraj Ke Khmer from the film Bar Shahu, originally composed in sung by Anastod Fatehli Kasa and produced in this film using a mix of his voice as well as that of Radh Fatehli Kasa. A very interesting strumming pattern that I'm going to show you, not really a song that someone will strum along with but if you are able to play this the way I'm going to show it to you, you're really going to enjoy it. So let's get on with it. So the song is an E minor and the chords are pretty straightforward. If you're playing open chords, all you need to know is E minor, D, C. Most of the song is using these chords. There are a couple of places where you'll need A minor and G also and those are the five chords pretty much. I'm playing bar chords so E minor, D, C and then A minor and G you could play over here. So now let's check out the strumming pattern. I'll show you both in open chords and in bar chords as well. So this is how it will sound in the original speed if you're playing in open chords. So we'll use E minor for this and switch between E minor and D and C as well. And if you're playing bar chords. Now let's take a look at the pattern step by step so you can get your timing right. So if you're playing in E minor, this is what we played. So that's pretty fast. Let me try and slow it down. I'll slow down even further. And if you're still not getting your timing right, this is what I'll recommend you do is I've done in some of my other lessons. Play along with me 16 strokes, 8 down and 8 are alternating without putting stress on any stroke or skipping any stroke. So I'm going to call out the 16 strokes starting with 1. I'm going to skip calling out the other stroke so you will see how it sounds. 1. 1. Those are 16 strokes, 8 down and 8 up alternating. Now I'm going to add stressed strokes 1 and 4. So 1 is a down stroke, 4 is an up stroke and I'll leave all of the other strokes without putting any stress on them. So 1. 4. 1. And now I'm going to add stress on the seventh stroke as well. So 1. 4. 7. 1. 4. 7. And when you're playing the first stroke, I always try to play that on the bass string. So those are the strings close to the sixth string. So that gives you the first beat of the pattern. Now besides strokes 1, 4 and 7, we're going to add stress to strokes 10, 12, 14 and 16 as well. So 1. 4. 7. So now let's try and play this pattern together. So let's start very slowly and then gradually increase the speed to make it sound close to the original. And remember it's a 16 beat pattern with stress on strokes 1, 4, 7, 10, 12, 14 and 16. So 1 is a down stroke, 4 is an up stroke, 7 is a down and then 10, 12, 14 and 16 are the 4 up strokes right at the end of the pattern. So here we go and you might know. So one of the things that I did in that pattern that I just created was I was switching between chords in the middle of the pattern itself. That's, I know it's a little tricky. So you could stay with the same chord for the entire pattern. But in the song you'll need to switch between chords if you want to play close to the original. So now let's take a look at bar chords as well. So in bar chords you have the ability to add muting effects. So the pattern is pretty much the same. So if I was to play without muting effects it would be here we are E minor so it will sound something like this. Now so that's the pattern pretty much the same as what we just saw in open chord. Now let's take a look at how this pattern will sound with the muting effects played at the original speed. I'm going to play it very slowly for you so you can play along with me. So let's try again in E minor. So as you can see those are the same strokes which we had used when we played the open chords. So it strokes 1, 4, 7, 10, 12, 14 and 16 where I'm adding the muting. And obviously those are the strokes on which I'm playing, putting stress on. The other strokes they don't matter whether you touch the strings or not. So as you can see here I can also switch between the two chords in the middle of the pattern. So as opposed to playing I played the first eight strokes here and then move to the next chord for the remaining eight strokes. So as a result of which the strokes 1, 4 and 7 are really coming out of this chord and the strokes 10, 12, 14 and 16 are coming out here. And the same is the movement from D to E minor as well. So let me do the switch between the two chords very slowly so you can see. And the same concept applies when you're playing open chords as well. So the movement from C to D would be something like this. So when you're playing it pretty fast this is how it's going to sound. So I hope you enjoyed that lesson. As always send me your comments and your questions and I will respond and see you once again.