let says the D chord...only the bottom 4 strings..so when i play songs that has D chord, do i play the 4 strings only? or can i just strum all? i tihk yui strum all...but some songs she strum the top few strings or either the bottom few strings...or e.g rolling star where she plays only the few strings when singing..so how?

Regarding what string to strum, it depends on what chord you're playing...
And yes for D you only strum 1st 4 strings... if u strum all it will sound strange because the other notes is either not included in the scale or because it's the few last strings it will over power the chord with another note in the scale.

Rolling star... I think she's doing power chords which are last few strings of barre chords.

Hope I didn't confuse u more..... :huhuhu

i have a question..in every chord,there is a way to strum??
i thought we just strum all the strings..
can u tell me more about other chords to strum...

For a D - strum 1st 4 strings.
For C, A - 1st 5 string

Well it's quite easy to indicate...
FInd the bass of the chord... For D the bass is the 4th string... so only strum 4th, 3rd, 2nd,1st
For C... the bass is 5th string 3rd fret.. so... 5th, 4th, 3rd,2nd,1st...

Usually it works that way... but i can't say for all cases.. but for basic chords it does.

I'm not a guitar pro but I'm not that newb too. You can look up chord diagrams, they'll tell you which strings to strum when playing that chord and what not. They usually mark the string with a O(play) or X(don't play).

yes simply read off the which frets you are supposed to hold down and the Os (open string) and Xs (don't play these) and you'll know exactly what strings to strum

for chords like D and other chords related to it like D7 and Dm you can only strum strings 1,2,3 and 4 or else the chord willsound strange

hm...ya i know abt that... the x thingy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ldgu8semSI...related&search=

look at it...around the last few secs of the video YUI plays the guitar "Goodbye days" if u look carefully she strums all strings...theres a part where she played the D chord but strummed all.i see other videos too...i think she strums all.

thanks for the explaination tsunvun86.. :thumbsup:

hmm, this is something i learnt though....

just say that D is played by the bottom 4 strings only, you can still strum all the strings, but you will need to mute the top 2 strings with your thumb or whichever finger you can do it with.

I can do that coz erm, I think my hand is big enough. And it's something I learnt from playing power chords too. =)