Chords for Guitar Lesson 12 - More Strumming

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_ _ _ [F#] Hey guys, welcome to the last lesson in the beginner quick start [D] series.
You know you
should be proud of yourself [C] if you've completed this entire thing.
You're on your way to being
able to play some pretty cool stuff on the guitar so that's always cool.
So if you remember
in the last lesson we went through a chord [G] progression with some really simple strumming.
It was G, [G] _ _ [E] D, _ [D] _ _
[G#] A minor [Am] 7 and C.
[C] _ _
_ _ [Dm] And if your fingers are sore by now, let me know.
I'll
[F#] go away.
Some people it takes a few weeks, some people it takes a few months but it will
go away if you keep practicing on a consistent basis.
So what we're going to do in this lesson
is take our strumming just from regular down strokes.
I'm going to kick that up a notch
and put a real strumming pattern with this chord progression.
So let me play it for you
real quick and then I'll break it down for you and tell you exactly what I'm playing
so you can play it too.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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Alright basically all I'm doing is for the first three beats
or first three strums I'm playing all down strokes just like we did in the last lesson.
One, two, three.
Now on beat four, four I'm hitting with a down stroke again but right
after that down stroke I have a down up two.
So if you're thinking about 16th notes you
may not know what that is but that's okay.
Just listen to how I'm counting this real
quick.
One E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a.
If we have on four, if we
have a down stroke remember one, two, three, four on E and a.
On four, four, three, four
on the and a of four you're going to have down up real quick.
So it'll sound like this. _
_ _ _ _ So just practice that.
It's going to be without thinking about the notes and the counting
it'll be down, down, up.
Just think about down, down, up.
So play that. _ _
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_ So think about
that as I play through that again just real quick.
So one, two, three, _ [G] four.
One, two, three, four.
_ _ _ That's the entire strumming [F] pattern we're going to be using for this entire progression.
We're just going to be playing in one measure or four beats of that.
Play that strumming
pattern through [A#] once on a G chord then move to a D _ [D] and _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] move to an A minor seven [G#]
and play
the exact same [Am] thing.
One, two, three, four.
_ Then you're going [G] to move to a C [F#] to finish the exact same [C] pattern. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now take [F] this as slowly
as you need to.
You know for right now don't even change chords if you don't feel like
[G] if you don't think you can do it just stay on one chord, a G for example.
Just practice
the strumming pattern over and over again. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] Do that as many times as you need to to get
[G] comfortable with that strumming pattern and then start throwing some other chords in there
and maybe just switch back and forth between G and D.
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[E] And then once [G] you get comfortable with this after a little while working with it, go ahead
and try the full progression G, D, A minor seven, C and see how it works for you. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ Once you've got these two things down, changing chords smoothly and just a really basic strumming
pattern, life is going to get a lot easier for you.
You're going to be able to play a
[A] lot of your favorite songs, simple three and four chord songs with some simple strumming
patterns.
And be proud of yourself.
Changing from chord to chord is not an easy thing to
do.
It's one of the harder things for beginner guitar players to do.
So I really hope you guys enjoyed this beginner quick start series [F#] and I really hope it's
really sparked something in your life that is going to be a lot of fun for you and be
very rewarding for you with the guitar.
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Guys, here's to your guitar success.
I'll see you around. _ _ _ _
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