Chords for Chord Progression Practice - E A B7 - Country, The Blues and Rock 'n Roll - Easy Guitar Chords

_ _ _ _ Hey, James here from GoodGuitarist.com and in this video we're going to show you a common
chord progression in the key of E.
And all that means is that out of all the chords in
this progression, E feels the most at home.
It's the key, so everything leads back to E. _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ If you're working [C#] out of our eBook, which is available for free to our subscribers,
there's links and information down below, you've 1.
Learned and memorized some chord shapes, 2.
Practiced switching between just [N] two chords at a time, and 3.
Learned some strumming patterns.
Well now, we're going to finally [C] put all that stuff together and play a chord progression,
and that's going to get us ready to play a complete song.
So let's just [E] 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 E.
_ _ [B] Now, switch to [A] A.
_ And finally, [B] B7. _ _
We'll do it one more time.
[E] E, _ [A] A, _ B7.
[B] _ _ [E] Now, we'll play along to a simple beat.
We'll play 8 downstrokes on E, and 4 downstrokes each on A and B7.
1, 2, 3, 4. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Don't pause to change [A] chords.
Keep the right hand going.
_ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] Each hand has a specific role in playing a chord progression.
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 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 [G] the chord shape.
_ _ [A#] _ _
_ [C] _ _ The strumming hand should be keeping a steady rhythm, [G] but it has to wait for the chord-switching
hand to catch up.
_ _ [C#] 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, [G] we're just going to grab them when we can, but we're
going to focus on keeping a steady rhythm with the strumming arm. _
The chords aren't [D] changing right on the beat.
They're behind.
But [C] it still sounds okay.
It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than [E] pausing and [G] waiting for the left hand
to finish making the chord shape.
Now that [D#] we're comfortable with the shapes used in this [F#] progression, let's add a strumming pattern.
All the [D#] 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, [C#] up, [E] down, up.
_ _ _ [F#] And here we go.
One, two, three, [E] four. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Remember, it's okay to leave [A] a chord early in order to land the next chord right on beat [B] one. _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ If you [D#] 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 [N] 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.
Anyways, thanks for watching.
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We'll see you next time. _ _ _