Chords for Chord Progression Practice - Em C Am B7 | Beginner Guitar Lessons

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_ Hey, James here from good guitarist calm and in this video
We're gonna practice a common chord progression in the key of E minor
And all that means is that out of all the chords in this progression it all wants to lead back to E minor
So all the other chords lead back to it
[Em] _ _ [C] _ If [Am] _ _ [B] _
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_ _ you're working out of our e-book which is available for free to all of our subscribers
There's information down below on that you've one learned and memorized chord chains
Two you've practiced switching between just two chords at a time back and forth and three you've practiced some strumming patterns
Well in this video, we're gonna put that all together into a chord progression
Which will finally get us ready to play a complete song.
So with no further ado, let's get to work in order
Just to warm up a bit make sure your fingers are comfortable switching between those specific chord voicings
We'll start with E minor _ _ _ _ _
Now switch to C
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ Now switch to a [Am] minor and _ _ _ finally switch to B7 [B] _ we'll _ _ _ _ _ do it one more time
E [Em] minor _
C _ _ [C] _ a _ _ [Am] minor
_ _ B7 _
[B] _ now, _ _ _ _ we'll play along to a simple beat.
We'll play four down strokes on each chord
_ one two [Bb] [Em] three four _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] Each hand has a specific role in playing a chord progression _
Ideally your left hand makes the chord [A] shapes right on the beat
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[E] While your right hand plays a strumming pattern [A] along with the beat maintaining a steady [E] consistent rhythm
It [A] _ _ _ [N] 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
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_ _ _ strumming hand should be keeping a steady rhythm, but it has to wait for the chord switching hand to catch [G] up
_ _ _ _ _ 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 steady rhythm with the strumming arm
_ _ _ The chords aren't changing right on the beat.
They're behind but it still [C] 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
_ [F] 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 root down [B] [Em] down up _ _ _ _ _ _ and
Here we go
one two three four _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ 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 [N] 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 [Em] songs that you want to play
Anyways, thanks for watching.
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