Strumming Patterns With Quarter and Half Rests 

The following strumming patterns contain half rests and quarter rests. When strumming a rest, we must completely silence our guitar and make sure no sound is coming out of the instruments. In order to do this, as we are strumming our downstroke, we will place our strumming hand sideways across the strings rather than our normal strumming motion. This will mute all of the strings in one smooth motion and will be easy to alternate between strums and rests moving forward.