Chords for Chord Progression Practice - A D E A - Play TONS of songs with 3 Easy Guitar Chords

_ _ _ _ James here from good guitarist calm and in this video we're gonna practice a
typical chord progression in the key of a and all that means is that out of all
the chords in this progression a feels the most at home it's the key so
everything wants to lead back to a if [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ you're working on our ebook which is
available for free to all of our subscribers there's links down below for
that you've one learned and memorized some chord shapes two you've practiced
switching between just two chords at a time and three you've practiced some
strumming patterns well now is the part where we get to put that all together
and play some chord progressions which will get us ready to finally 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 make sure your fingers are
comfortable switching between those specific chord voicings first we'll play
a _ now switch to [D] D now _ switch to [E] E and now let's switch back [A] to a we'll do it
one more time a D _ [D] _ _
[E] E A [A] _ _ _ [Eb] now we'll play along to a simple beat will play four
down strokes on each chord one two three [A] four
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ _ _ each hand has a specific role in playing a chord progression [E] ideally your left
[A] hand makes the chord shapes right on the beat [E] _ _ [A] _
[E] while your right hand plays a
strumming pattern [A] 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 waits for the [G] chord shape
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[C] _ the strumming hand should be keeping a steady rhythm but it has to wait for the
chord switching hand to catch [G] up _ [N] stopping and starting and stopping and
starting it doesn't make for a very musical experience so now 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 [G] steady rhythm with the strumming arm the chords aren't
[D] changing right on the beat they're behind but it [C] still sounds okay it's not
perfect but it's a lot better than pausing and waiting [G] for the left hand to
finish making the chord shape [E] 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 up up [A] down up _ _ _ [Eb] and here we go one
two three [A] four _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [B] if you can play a chord progression with this drumming 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 progressions and strumming patterns as you can and
more importantly use them to learn [Bb] your favorite songs anyways don't forget to
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you next time _ _ _ _ _