I am new here.
As I see it, in Strum Machine you have the option of 4/4 or 3/4 standard time.
There’s no option for a kind of Rumba Rhythm like Johnnie & Jack often had it in their songs in the 50s.
Is it really limited like this in Strum Machine?
2024-04-01T22:00:00Z
At the moment, Strum Machine doesn’t really support any Latin rhythms. This will probably change someday, although I would still classify Rumba as a 4/4 time signature, just with a different strumming pattern, percussion, etc.
The closest you can get right now is probably one of the syncopated boom chuck strums:
You can find these by opening Band Settings under a song title, then clicking Guitar, then clicking on the strumming pattern to change it.
Thank you Luke, could you tell me how I can back the song “Contrabandistas” from Willie Nelson & Kimmie Rhodes?
I tried to upload this song, but as a new user I’m not enabled to do this.
Friendly regards
Johann Stachler
The strumming pattern would be like this:
dpwm / up (long) / up / down / up / down / up
down / up (long) / up / down / up / down / up
You’d want to use one of those same rhythm patterns I mentioned above, which should work even better for this song as that’s literally what the guitar is playing: D DU UDU.
If you’re new to making chord charts in Strum Machine, here’s a tutorial video.