OK, here we are for a look at the One Minute Changes you need for Stage 7.
So, of course you're at that more advanced stage now
where you should be making your own decisions about what One Minute Changes you should be doing,
but I do have a couple of suggestions.
One of them is to experiment with your sus-chords,
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
but what I would recommend is that you make a cycle of this:
1
2
3
4
So you're only counting '1' for each whole time you go D, Dsus4, D, Dsus2, then '2'.
Then also do it with D minor. So Dmin, Dsus4, Dmin, Dsus2 and back to Dmin.
Remembering that those two fingers are staying on the same
the second and third fingers are staying on the same notes for the whole time.
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And then do the same for both A
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and Amin
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Those movements, those suspended-movements, are used all the time
and it's definitely, definitly worth trying to get them under your fingers
so they're kinda becoming instinctive, that you don't even think about it,
your fingers can just add those in any time you like.
It really makes a difference to, you know, if you got to play the same chord for ages
and it's getting a bit boring it would be really nice to spice them up a little bit
for both the audience who's listening to it and for you.
So, that would be the thing I'd recommend first of all
that you try and incorporate into your One Minute Changes.
Maybe the first one would be A or Amin, with your sus-chords
and the second one would be D (major or minor), with your sus-chords.
Then for the other three spaces I would probably recommend that you're still working on your F chord.
I'd be very surprised if your F chord is perfect now, especially changing from the open chords
to the F chord. A lot of people find that really properly difficult.
If you're one of those make sure you're doing plenty of practice on that as well.
Doing the One Minute Changes, doing, you know, F to C is a hard one,
F to G is a hard one, that you're really working on them and make them sound really proper and good.
So, I hope that does all makes sense to you.
Another short lesson, but I hope you're progressing well with it
and I'll see you for another one very soon. Bye-bye.