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.
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Then the one up around the 8th fret, the one up at the 12th fret,
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and back down again.
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And that would be 1 cycle.
So, 1
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2
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3
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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
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2
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3, 4
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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.
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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.