Good Alternate Strum Songs for Medium/Hard

[BohemianMatt]

When I first learned alternate strumming, it was because of need rather than by choice. Back in GH3 with songs like "Holiday in Cambodia" and "Knights of Cydonia," when I got up to expert or even hard, I just had to suffer until I got it down.

[Bront20]

Try bass on expert instead, or a few guitar songs on expert.

On guitar, Eye of the Tiger is great, having such a well known and pronounced rhythm, it's easy to practice on expert (even if you're normally a medium/hard player).

On bass? On expert, songs like Alabama Getaway and Go Your Own way are perfect for this, but there are a ton of 8th note bass songs that can work for practice.

I highly recommend playing Bass to get this down. It's a good transition to using orange and the speed of the charts without throwing confusing chords or tough solos at you for the most part. It's how I made some impressive steps up from medium to expert guitar.

[jibjqrkl]

Try bass on expert instead, or a few guitar songs on expert.

this ^

if you play songs on medium/hard then you're usually going to get random pauses in between a line of notes. which would make it easier if you're not alt-strumming, but make it slightly harder if you are.

its easier to learn how to do just one line of the same note while alt-strumming (as bront mentioned eye of the tiger is pretty good for this) and then later learn how to alt strum with random(ish) pauses in it

[Bront20]

To elaborate further, Eye of the Tiger is the first song I ever successfully alt-strummed in. I picked it at random on expert, forgetting the speed, and just said "Screw it, I'll try alt-strumming". Despite expecting horrible results, it turned out well, mostly because I knew the rhythm well.

[ASPKev]

Love Like Winter by AFI is all alt-strumming on guitar. As is Too Little Too Late by A Skylit Drive.

Also, A Jagged Gorgeous Winter has an alt-strum section, and it was the first I learned to alt-strum with.

[GameMaster439]

Also, A Jagged Gorgeous Winter has an alt-strum section, and it was the first I learned to alt-strum with.

Funny enough, that's what made me good at them as well haha