One Minute Changes (Guitar Lesson BC-124) Guitar for beginners Stage 2

This is Stage 2, Lesson 4 of Justin's Beginner Guitar Course.

This video shows you some good chord combinations to do in your One Minute Changes practice.

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Ok we've checked out some minor chords.

Now we are going to check
how to change between them.

As we already discovered,

doing those one minute changes
is a really good way to go.

Now that we have added
those other three chords,

suddenly we've got quite
a few more different combinations

that we could be doing.

So, what I am going to do
is give you some suggested combinations.

But remember that : if there are any of these
that you find really really easy

and you find another combination really hard,

then you should substitute
that one that you find hard.

Because, remember,
I will repeat it again

You should always practice what you can't do;
don't practice what you can.

So let's go through the combination
and I will give you the reasoning

why I think they might be a good one to work on.

So the first combination in our list is
A minor to E.

And the reason we are looking at
A minor to E

is because it is essentially the same shape
lifting up and moving strings.

Now, I know I make this look kind of easy

because I have done this chord change
several million times in my life already.

Now you can see that the idea here
is that the whole chord shape is staying.

It's just lifting up

and the hand kind of moves and then lifts up
and then moves back.

Now, I don't know how many of those
I can do in a minute

but it will definitely be a lot.

So the thing I want you to work on here
is just lifting up the chord shape,

moving over and pressing down,

and trying to keep the fingers relative
to each other.

And that looks easy,
but you will probably find yourself going like that

and then you've lost it already.

So you have to replace it
somewhere at times.

So try to get them to move as a group.

The second change
that I've got here on your list is

A minor to D minor.

Now, the actual change isn't
particularly difficult

but you've got to get
that third figure stretched out.

So, first finger and second finger
stay relative to each other.

The third finger has to jump forward
and that can be quite tricky.

So that's the reason you've got
that second one.

It's to get used to that third finger
jumping forward like that.

Of course, I know you should be
strumming each chord.

I'm just making the movement
so I can talk

and you won't get distracted by me playing
while i'm doing it.

Ok. the next one we've got on the list is

A to D minor.

Now, the good thing with this one
is that you've got a third finger anchor.

So there's your A chord.

Now to get to D minor,
first and second fingers comes off.

Third finger comes forward
and then first and second go down.

So, you are trying to leave
that third finger down for these changes.

You should find that it makes
doing that chord change considerably easier

than the other ones
because you've got that anchor finger.

And an anchor finger
is always a good thing to do.

Now, the other two I've got written
down here on my list are E to D

Now E to D,
lift off, shift forward.

We've already been doing that one

so that gets you used to doing
that chord change

which you've already done.

If that was one
that you found very easy,

change it for one that you do find difficult.

And the last one
E minor to D.

So we've got here,
E minor to D.

Now, you've probably
got used to doing E

where you've got that little anchor finger,

but with E minor you don't have that.

So it gives you a bit of an example

of how much easier it makes it
when you've got yourself an anchor finger.

I'm sure you'll enjoy
this next set of one minute changes.

Please remember : try to do it often.

Try to do a little bit of these
one minute changes every day.

It's only five minutes a day.
It's not a huge amount of time.

But it makes such a big difference
if you're training on this regularly

and you are really working
on getting those chords moving

as fast as you can.

You really will notice that suddenly
you will be able to get to this point

where we play songs
and it will actually work

if you have to change
in a way that makes it musical.

And that's kind of what we are looking for.

Nice, quick changes.

So, now, get to it,

do some practice
and work on them really really fast.

See you soon.