Hopefully you were able to track with some of that track.
Towards the end I started doing down strokes and upstrokes a little bit more quickly.
When you are new to making transitions between chords sometimes that can be really difficult.
When you are strumming a chord and you are not doing any extra strums
you have time to reposition your hand for the second chord.
When you start strumming faster there is one thing you want to look at especially if your chords have open strings in them
ones you are not fretting.
Notice when I take my fingers off still some of the strings are ringing you can use that as a mask to make your transition.
Watch.
Notice how I let some of those strings ring.
I stopped a few of them but it didn't sound quite as awkward as…
So notice if I am strumming a little bit faster…
You can see what I am doing there where I will strum up maybe and as I am transitioning I will let some of those strings ring
and then move on to the next chord.
If and it probably will be this way the back half of that backing track where I started in cooperating more upstrokes.
Don't feel like if you are not to the point as you are watching this lesson
if you are not to the point where you can track with that yet.
That is okay.
That is why the other backing track is provided without the guitar.
If you want to practice just strumming on the one of every measure for the entire four minute backing track you can.
Then you can gradually add in more complicated strums with this track after you have downloaded it
until you are comfortable making that transition and adding in more complicated strums.
That demonstration was really designed to show the spectrum that you could be working with in this track.
Starting simple and as you get more confident it add more upstrokes and down strokes.
Then practice a little bit faster chord switching.