Where to learn about strumming patterns?

How did you guys learn how to pluck on the guitar?

• I keep trying to learn how to pluck (I think that's what you call it) and I just keep giving up because my fingers aren't quite used to it yet... I got the gist of bar chords, so that's easy for me to pick up, but for my strumming hand, it's harder for me to pick up strumming patterns or plucking. Please tell me if I'm calling it right, too -.- I feel like I'm calling it wrong. I just started playing guitar when I got my first guitar last Christmas so all I know how to play are chords hehe. So how did you guys learn "plucking"? (jeez, it sounds so odd) and also, how the heck do you read tabs...? hehe, I would love to get better, so any suggestions for me learning? I practice a lot (I at least pick up my guitar twice a day) and I've heard that I pick things up quickly (my parents were amazed how I learned 5 chords in one sitting)... so, thanks in advance for helping me out ^-^

• Answer:

  we spend a couple hundred days trying to do it right, until we give up and put the guitar down for a while. then one day we pick up the guitar again and just do it without thinking. its amazing what putting the guitar down for a while can do. its called finger-picking.