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So check out that tune and just practice your eighth note strumming. Like, for instance, when I go to the two-chords per measure, I’m playing one, two, and three, and four.Ī little different variation on that pattern, but in essence it’s still like that eighth note swing. We’re going to play D for two bars, G for one bar, C for two beats, G for two beats and then D for the first section of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.Īgain, that doesn’t have to stay like that the whole time. So the eighth notes, instead of one and, two and, three and, four, they’re one, and two, and three, and four, almost like a blues if you play like a blues shuffle. We’ve got a D chord and then the thing about this tune is, it has a swing or shuffle feel. My hand always keeps that sort of the motor of the tune, is that eighth note. What I’m going toĭo is omit playing on beat three. That means down, up, down, up, and then on beat three.

So with eighth note patterns, always try to keep your hand in the motion of playing eighth notes: one and, two and, three and, four and. We have a D chord and the rhythm that we’re going to do is basically one and, two and, then you don’t play three, and four. And the song for reference here is “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.