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OK, here we are for a look at the One Minute Changes you need for Stage 7.

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So, of course you're at that more advanced stage now

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where you should be making your own decisions about what One Minute Changes you should be doing,

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but I do have a couple of suggestions.

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One of them is to experiment with your sus-chords,

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so particularly doing the movements of D, Dsus4, D, Dsus2 and back to D again, literally going

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strumming doesn't matter. 
It can be all downs or down/up/down/up, doesn't matter

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but what I would recommend is that 
you make a cycle of this:

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1

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2

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So you're only counting '1' for each whole time you go D, Dsus4, D, Dsus2, then '2'.

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Then also do it with D minor. So Dmin, Dsus4, Dmin, Dsus2 and back to Dmin.

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Remembering that those two fingers are 
staying on the same

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the second and third fingers are staying 
on the same notes for the whole time.

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. . .

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And then do the same for both A

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. . .

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and Amin

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. . .

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Those movements, those suspended-movements, 
are used all the time

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and it's definitely, definitly worth trying to get them under your fingers

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so they're kinda becoming instinctive, 
that you don't even think about it,

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your fingers can just add those in any time you like.

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It really makes a difference to, you know, 
if you got to play the same chord for ages

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and it's getting a bit boring it would be really nice to spice them up a little bit

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for both the audience who's listening to it and for you.

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So, that would be the thing I'd recommend first of all

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that you try and incorporate into your One Minute Changes.

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Maybe the first one would be 
A or Amin, with your sus-chords

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and the second one would be D (major or minor),
with your sus-chords.

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Then for the other three spaces I would probably recommend that you're still working on your F chord.

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I'd be very surprised if your F chord is perfect now, especially changing from the open chords

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to the F chord. 
A lot of people find that really properly difficult.

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If you're one of those make sure you're doing plenty of practice on that as well.

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Doing the One Minute Changes, 
doing, you know, F to C is a hard one,

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F to G is a hard one, that you're really working on them and make them sound really proper and good.

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So, I hope that does all makes sense to you. 


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Another short lesson, 
but I hope you're progressing well with it

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and I'll see you for another one very soon. Bye-bye.