PART ONE (free on YouTube):  Example one explores ballad strumming in the country feel. This "waltz style" application focuses on the most common chord harmony used in the country style, (the "I-IV-V").

This time signature of example one is 3/4 waltz time. It also applies the popular country music, "alternate bass-note" process of playing the chords "root" into the chords third or fifth degree.

PART TWO:  In example two, the rhythmic feel changes from 3/4 to common time (4/4) with a back-beat accent applied through an emphasis of the up-beat of two. 

PART THREE:

In example three, a steady sixteenth-note groove is applied with traditional country music style alternate bass.

The feel is steady and consistent with down - up alternate strumming leading the way across a consistent beat that incorporates root and fifth bass tones in the key of "C Major."
 
PART FOUR:  In example four, an eighth-note country strum pattern also adds a moving bass line that incorporates both alternate bass as well as, a melodic scale runs that connect one measure to the next.

The example four strum pattern applies chord shot emphasis upon the up-beat of both "1" and "2." However, around these chord shots are also follow-up melodic phrases that connect each measure.

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