How to Practice 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 gong to teach you how to do the A D E D exercise. To begin we are going to use the three chords that we learned in a previous segment, the A chord, the D chord, and the E chord. We're going to cycle those over just like we did the G C D C exercise, okay? To begin we're going to start with an A chord then we're going to go to a D chord. Then down to the E chord. Back up to the D chord. Then we're going to cycle that. And here's what it sounds like with a sixty beats per minute metronome. You'll play your A chord on the one count. Count to four and then play your D chord on the next one count. Count to four. Play your E chord on the one count. Count to four. Back to the D. Here's what it sounds like. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Back to D, two, three, and cycle. One, two, three, four, one, and so on. Now as you get better at this I want you to strum more times in the four beat count and that sounds like this. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, and you can even add three strums or four strums to the exercise to make it more challenging. Now if you're doing four strums in the sixty beats per minute metronome count feel free to increase your metronome count by five, sixty five to seventy and seventy five to eighty until you can do that really fluidly. It takes a lot of practice to be able to switch this stuff. In the next segment we're going to talk about how to play all five of those same chords without the use of your index finger. It's really important in the CAGED Method. I'll see you then.

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