It sounds pretty decent and has a bunch of pre-made strumming patterns but you could also program your own pattern. That said though being able to hear and recognise rhythms is more important. Learning to count a rhythm can be invaluable in learning how to do this. If you want more realistic guitar strumming for producing music, there are programs such as MusicLab RealGuitar and AAS Strum. There is a free pluging form Ample Sound called Ample Guitar M Lite. Note: Click on an image to make it bigger Learning to strum properly and consistently is very important to guitar playing. To be honest, even with copy/pasting patterns, I think this is fairly cumbersome, the tweaking possibilities are very limited, and the result doesn't sound very convincing. If you already have the tab done, you'll have to redo the notes in the copied strumming pattern. So, once you get one bar of strumming to sound good, you can copy-paste the bar for the whole song and change the notes to what you actually want. This is very tedious, but luckily it seems that you can change all the notes while keeping the brushing effect information for that note/chord. The notes are produced by using the brush up/down 'effects', and each time you specify such an effect for a note/chord, you're presented with this settings dialog where you tell the program the speed of this particular strum:

You'll want to keep that for playback purposes only and not actually show it to anyone. The notation will end up looking like a mess such as this: This site has loads of rhythms for you to play no matter if youre looking to learn guitar strumming, mandolin strumming, ukulele strumming, banjo strumming or whatever other instrument you can strum. Strumming is called 'brushing' in the program, and there's an 'Auto Brush' feature, but it doesn't seem to be of much help - you'll have to specify all the details anyway. I'm a novice Guitar Pro user, but it seems that at least in version 7.5, getting good sounding strumming playback requires you to manually tweak each strum's direction, speed and dynamics separately.

Midi guitar strumming patterns