One minute changes (Guitar Lesson BC-174) Guitar for beginners Stage 7

This is Stage 7, Lesson 4 of Justin's Beginner Guitar Course.

This video shows some suggested chord changes to work on at this stage...

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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

. . .

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.

. . .

And then do the same for both A

. . .

and Amin

. . .

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.