Hi, how're ya doing? Justin here.
Welcome to IM-142,
which is the one minute chord changes, for Foundation 4.
Now, I'm pretty sure, you know the drill by now,
where you're going to be changing out chords as fast as we can,
between chords that we already know,
and chords that we're just learning.
Now, I've got a suggested five chord changes that you might like to start off with,
but make sure that you remember,
if there is any that you find easy,
you should substitute them with some changes that you find really difficult,
because you get best, if you practice what you can't do,
and don't practice what you can.
Ok, let's get to a close-up and check out my suggested changes.
The first of my suggested changes
is between an A major chord, using an E shape,
and an E7 chord using an A shape.
This is a very common chord movement,
. . .
and I don't think you'll have too much trouble with it.
My second chord change suggestion is here
a G minor 7 to a C minor 7 chord.
Now, both of these require quite strong barres,
particularly the G minor 7, that's quite far down the neck,
you might get that second finger over,
to give yourself a little bit of support if you need it,
to a C minor 7.
If you find it really difficult down here,
you could move it up the neck, to say,
a Bminor7 to an Eminor7.
Up to you.
I think doing it at G is a good kind of strength builder.
So, sitting there,
should have the chords nice and clear by now,
and making those chord changes as fast as you can.
My third chord change that I'd recommend would be,
Bb7 to an Eb7.
Both, again, very very common chords to be changing between.
Nothing too difficult here, really.
It's just getting used to the two dominant 7 chord shapes,
and making sure your barre is strong enough,
to get all of those notes ringing out nice.
Fourth recommended change is,
G major, using an E shape,
to a B7, using an A shape.
. . .
Interesting kind of quick change here
because you have to kind of move backwards
and moving backwards with the barres are always a little bit more interesting than not.
So G, backwards we go to the 7th.
Here, sometimes my fingers kind of a little bit flat like that.
Sometimes, it's a bit easier to get the pressure on,
when the fingers are kind of slightly angled.
Wouldn't say it's a particularly a good habit.
They should probably be a bit square on,
but if they are a little bit late over sometimes,
particularly when you've just gone backwards,
I think that's kind of acceptable,
so long as the chord sounds good.
And the 5th recommended change would be this :
Ab minor to a Db major.
. . .
Just to make sure that we keep on working on,
uh, A shape major barre chord change a bit as well,
because that's generally the toughest one for most people,
so, you don't want to leave it out altogether.
Well, I'll leave you to it.
All you have to do now is add your practice.
Just please don't forget, if there's any that you find really difficult,
if you're still struggling with the A major type barre chord,
you might want to chuck some more of those in there,
if there's some from the list that I've given you
that you'd find easier,
so that's the big trick here.
Please, don't forget, practice the hard stuff.
It'll make you better.
Take care.
I'll see you for another lesson real soon. Bye-bye.