How're you doing? Justin here!

Guess what?
You've finished stage 5, which is really cool,

because we're about to get into
some kind of heavy duty hardcore stuff.

In fact, the next stage is one of the most important ones.

So I really want you to be sure that you've consolidated
all your information you've got so far on this stage.

Things you should be doing:
First of all, you should have your finger workout,

so making sure that you're getting your fingers
stretched out; that 1, 2, 3, 4 little exercise.

Remember that if you're not feeling a bit of a stretch
in your fingers, you're not doing any good.

So make sure that you're really keeping them
and stretching out as far as you can.

That's a really, really good exercise and it'll definitelly help
you with your chord playing

and the scales stuff that we'll learn later on as well.

Second thing you should have on your practice schedule
is your chord practice,

making sure that you're still doing
your strum, pick out, strum

on any of the chords that aren't perfect.

You should really be aiming now to make sure every chord,
every note in every chord sounds great.

Really clear, no buzzy notes, no dead notes.

Making sure that you know what strings
should be picked on each chord.

That's really, really important.

So, plenty of time on that, there should be, you know,
your 5 minutes a day kind of amount,

maybe a little bit more if you've got extra time.

Next thing you should have your 5 'minute changes',

so making sure that you picked
the 5 hardest chords for you to change between

and you work on each one for minute, timing yourself.

The timing yourself thing,
I know it seems a little bit over the top,

that you have to get your stopwatch out and time yourself.

But if you're writing down the amount of changes
that you make each practice session,

it can be really good as kind of self motivation for you
to keep practising and keep on going.

And you'll watch yourself improve,
that can be kind of inspiring as well.

So I highly recomend doing that.

Then you've got your rhythm guitar.

Now, what I would be recommending for your rhythm guitar,

is really working on that kind of shuffle rhythm,
trying to get that under your fingers,

as well as a little bit of revision
on your RUST pattern number 8,

because that's a really important one and
we're going to be developing that in the next stage.

We're going to be introducing this thing called "ties".

So that pattern needs to be really strong,
so make sure you'll give that a look,

as well as revising your shuffle pattern.
That's what you should be sussing out.

Then you should have your songs.

Now, I would recommend the songs
that you work on at this stage,

will be your 12 bar blueses in the 3 different keys as shown in the common chord sequences,

because they are really, really, really
common chord sequences.

They make thousands of songs.

I will eventually try and get a list of songs
that use that 12 bar blues,

but there is loads and loads and loads
and loads and loads.

And I've given you a few different slight variations
that you'll get on the 12 bar blues

amongst those 3 patterns.

So, definitely it'll be worth having a look at that
as your song choices

or common chord sequences for this stage.

As well as that, for those of you doing it,
you should be doing your JUSTIN Ear Training as well.

That would be a really good thing to keep your ears
locked in to the different sounds

and starting to recognise those different chord
sequences now, and your dominant chords and stuff.

That should be progressing pretty good by this stage.

So, lots to do, lots of stuff to consolidate.

Really make this good week,
trying keep your motivation up.

We're about to, like I said, about to do some really cool stuff.

So, stick at it and I'll see you for stage 6 really soon.

Take care of yourselves and bye bye!