Chords for Chord Progression Practice - Am Dm G C | Beginner Guitar Lessons

_ _ _ _ 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 [Am] C
[Dm] If [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [N] you're working out of our ebook, which is available for free to all of our subscribers
There's links down below for that you one learned and memorized some chord shapes
Who 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
Make sure your fingers are comfortable switching between those specific chord voicings
First we'll play [Am] a minor _ _ now switch to [Dm] D minor _ _
Now switch to [G] G and _ [C] finally we'll switch to C
_ We'll do it one more [Am] time a minor D [Dm] minor
_ [G] G
_ [C] C
Now _ we'll play along to a simple beat.
We'll play four down strokes on each chord
one [Am] two three four _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] Each [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
hand has a specific role in playing [E] a chord progression
Ideally your left [A] hand makes the chord shapes [E] right on the beat
While _ [A] _ [E] your right hand plays a strumming pattern [A] along with the beat maintaining a [E] steady consistent rhythm
[A] _ [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 [G] while it waits for the chord shape _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ The strumming hand should be keeping a steady rhythm, but it has to wait for the chord switching hand to [G] catch up
_ _ Stomping and starting and stopping and starting it doesn't make for a very musical [N] 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 steady [G] rhythm with the strumming arm
The chords 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 [G] pausing and waiting for the left hand 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 [Fm] down root [Am] down down up _ _ and here we go
one two three four
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [N]
You
If you can play through a chord progression with a strumming pattern like you just did then you can play through a whole song
Someone once said and I'm paraphrasing here that some of the most famous songs are just three or four chords, and that's completely true
So if you learn a bunch of chord progressions
The best thing to do is to try to find some songs that you can use those on
That's the quickest way to learn the songs that you want to play
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We'll see you next time