One minute Changes (Guitar Lesson IM-152) How to play IF Stage 5

Justin's Completely Free, Intermediate Guitar Course Lesson IM-152.
Stage 5, Lesson 2.

This guitar lesson takes you through an exercise to work on your triad shape chord changes - great for position shifting practice too :)

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Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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Hi! How ya doin'?
Justin here! Welcome to IM-152

Which is the One Minute Changes
for Foundation Five.

In which we're gonna be jumping our
triad shapes all up and down the guitar neck.

Lots of fun here.

So let's start off by looking
at the G Major triad,

just because we've looked
at that one a lot already,

and it's the one
you started off with.

What we're gonna be doing is playing
each on of the G Majors,

all of the way up the neck,
and all of the way back again.

So we'll be using G
down at the 3rd fret.

. . .

Then the one up around the 8th fret,
the one up at the 12th fret,

. . .

and back down again.

. . .

And that would be 1 cycle.

So, 1

. . .

2

. . .

3

. . .

4, 5 etc.

Now, that was G,
I also think that you should have a go at doing C.

But don't start with the C right up at the 8th fret,
start down toward the nut,

as far as you can, so the
C chord will be the one down here,

with the 3rd finger on the
C note on the 3rd string.

So you play C

. . .

2

. . .

3, 4

. . .

etc, just going through.

Now once you've done those two Majors,
I'd also recommend

that you have a go at doing the minors.

And the two I've selected
would be Dm and Fm.

Of course going through as
fast as you can.

When you're working on
these kind of triad shapes,

jumping to them really quick.

It really makes you learn
the patterns really, really well.

And a little trick that
I'm gonna tell you about,

make sure that you look at the Root note of
the chord that you're going to.

So when I'm playing say,
G, down the bottom there,

I know I'm moving to this
one at the 8th fret.

So I would use my eyes and look at that Root note on the 8th fret of the 2nd string,

and then move the chord shape to it.

If you try and kind of follow your hand, and you you kind of watching your hand as it goes,

moves up the neck, it's very hard to make
that kind of fast jump.

Now, for the last one, for #5, I've recommended that you do the C Major, on strings 2,3 & 4.

Your chords here.

. . .

If you don't feel confident
doing your chord changes on strings 2,3 & 4,

Just substitute another one of either
the Major or the minor.

Whatever you find the hardest
on the thinnest three strings.

Work on that for a little bit, and
then when you feel cool,

move over and start maybe looking at all five being on strings group 2,3 & 4,

because that is just as useful group of strings
as the thinnest three strings.

So that's gonna be quite a
lot of practice for you.

Take it slowly, make sure
that you get it right,

and I'm sure you'll get those triads
under your fingers in no time.

Take care of yourselves. See you for
another lesson real soon. Bye bye.