Tips for Practicing Guitar Chord Changes

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Hi, my name is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to teach you how to change chords. This first exercise is called the G C D C exercise. Basically we're just changing chords from G to C to D back to C, okay? For this exercise I want you to pause the video real quick, go to Google and type in "free metronome." There's an online metronome you can use there and probably ten thousand online metronomes you can use, but you'll need it in order to do this exercise effectively if you don't have a metronome in the home. Now, set your metronome to sixty beats per minute. Okay? Now, form that G chord that we learned in the previous few segments and we're going to from G and then we're going to go to C and then we're going to go to the D chord and then back to the C chord. Okay? On a sixty beat per minute metronome it sounds like this. Alright, I got the metronome started. Let's begin our exercise. Okay? We're going to start with a G chord to the C chord to the D chord to the C chord. Okay? We're going to cycle that over and over again. We're going to give each chord four counts on the metronome, okay? That means you actually have one strum and then three counts to switch to the next chord. That looks and sounds like this. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four and repeat. One, two, three, four. One, just like that. As you get better at the exercise you're going to want to add more strums to it on the beat. The first one we started with one strum on the one beat. Well, you can do a strum on the one beat and on the two beat and give yourself two more beats to switch to the next chord in the sequence. And then of course three strums and then four strums. And then you start increasing the speed of your metronome to where you can do it very quickly. In the next segment we're going to go over another exercise. The A D E D exercise. I'll see you there.

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