Chords for Chord Progression Practice - C Am F G - Useful Chord Progression Found In TONS of songs!!

_ _ _ _ Hey, James here from good guitarist calm and in this video
We're gonna practice a typical chord progression in the key of C
And all that means is that out of all the chords in this progression C feels the most at home
It's the key.
So everything leads back to C
_ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ If you're working out of our ebook, which is available for free to all of [N] our subscribers
There's links down below for that you've one learned and memorized some chord shapes
To you've learned to switch between just two chords at a time and practice that a lot and three practice some strumming patterns
Well now is the time where we finally put that all together and get ready to play a complete song
So let's just get straight to work
We'll start out by going over the chords in order just to warm up a bit and make sure your fingers are comfortable
switching between those specific chord voicings
First we'll play [C] C
_ _ Now switch to a [Am] minor and _ now switch to [F] F and finally switch to G
[G] _ _
_ We'll do it one more time
[C] C a [Am] minor F
_ _ [F] _ G
[G] _ _
Now we'll play along to a simple beat.
We'll play four down strokes on each chord
one two three Four
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [E] Each hand has a specific role in playing a chord progression
Ideally your [A] left hand makes the chord shapes right on the beat
[E] _ _ [A] _
While [E] your right hand plays a strumming pattern along with the beat maintaining a [E] steady consistent rhythm
_ [N] It can be tough focusing on both of those at the same time, especially when you're first starting to play
Most people have a tendency to with their chord switching hand try to get every chord shape perfect and
While they're doing that their strumming arm has to pause while it [G] waits for the chord shape
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ The strumming hand should be keeping a steady rhythm, but it has to wait [D] for the chord switching hand to catch up
_ [B] Stopping and starting and stopping and starting it doesn't make for a very musical experience
So now [N] let's see what happens when we do the opposite and instead of getting the chord shapes perfect with the left hand
We're just gonna grab them when we can but we're gonna focus on keeping a steady rhythm with the strumming [G] arm
The chords [D] aren't changing right on the beat.
They're behind [C] but it still sounds okay
It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than [E] pausing and waiting for the left hand [G] to finish making the chord shape
Now that we're comfortable with the shapes used in this progression.
Let's add a strumming pattern
All the strumming patterns used in this video series can be found in our ebook and there's links down below for that
this one goes
down down
down up down
[C] _ _ _ _
And here we go.
One, two, three, four _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[N] If you can play a chord progression with a strumming pattern like you just did then you're ready to play through an entire song
Someone once said and I'm paraphrasing here that some of the most famous songs are just three or four chords and I can tell you
That's completely true
So I encourage you to learn as many chord [B] progressions and strumming patterns as you can and more importantly
Use [E] them to learn your favorite songs
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We'll see you next time _