Guitar Chord Shifting & Strumming Exercises for Beginners

These videos were taken a few months back while I was visiting my niece. I had nothing to do so I took my laptop out and recorded. Sorry for the not so great quality. =)

These exercises are related to basic guitar playing lessons. Good for total beginners and can also serve as maintenance warm-ups for the intermediate & advanced. There will be 6 parts in this series. I'll be uploading the rest as soon as I get them edited.

PART 1
(DAD-G-DAD)

PART 2
(CGC-F7-CGC)

PART 3
(AEA-D-AEA)

PART 4
(EB7E -A-EB7E )

PART 5
(GDG -C-GDG )

PART 6: THE IMPORTANT THEORY BEHIND

Hello! It's Paul Trajano once again, and in this video, I'm gonna
reveal to you the no-brainer theory behind our
'Guitar Chord Shifting & Strumming Exercises for Beginners.'

In the previous videos, we've seen 5 chords exercises.

(DAD -G- DAD)
(CGC -F7- CGC)
(AEA -D- AEA)
(EB7E -A- EB7E)
(GDG -C- GDG )

After watching this video:
> You'd be able to surely locate 3 correct chords of any given Major key everytime
> You'll discover the strongest & most stable chord used in a Major key
> You'll be able to discover the most common chords used in pop, rock, the classic blues shuffle,
folk and other non-classical, non-jazz songs so that you could...
> compose your own stuff
> & be a step closer to playing by ear

SO let's start.

If you listen to closely to the exercises in the past 5 videos, you'll notice that
the chord progressions have the same 'movement' or theme.

That is because they are all '1-5-1-4-1-5-1' chord progressions, just belonging to different keys.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about,
please do stick around til the end of the video because this is very important
and very exciting.

Now let me explain this in the easiest way that I can.

In western music, we have what we call a 'key.' Think of a 'key' as a house.
And in a particular house lives "seven chords."

In this video, we will be concerned with 3
chords out of the seven, and those are the major chords of a given key. I want to
make this clear to you. Out of 7, there will ALWAYS be 3 major chords in a given key
and they are the 1st, the 4th and the 5th chords of a key or the 1-4-5.

The most important thing to remember about learning chords is that it
does not matter how many chords you know, but the knowledge of which chords go together that will enable you to play songs.

Here are 2 facts:
1: 99% of two chord songs use the 1st and 5th chords of a key.
2: 90% of three chord songs use the 1st, 4th and 5th chords of a key.

I'll now show you the trick on how to pick out the 1-4-5 chords of any Major key.

1st note: The name of the Major key will always be your 1.
For example, video 1 uses the chords DAD-G-DAD and that is in the key of D.
That makes 'D' our 1. Usually, a song would start & end with the 1.

Now, with the use of a guitar, we will derive the 4 & 5.
The 4 will always be placed 'below' the 1. And 5 will always be just a whole step from the 4.

Let's take a look at the other examples from videos 2-5.

That's it.

Now, here's a tip to bring you closer to playing by ear.

Apply these to a three chord songs when trying to decide whether the chord progression of a song moves from chord one to four or chord five.

1) Chord 1 moving to Chord 5: the sound drops down (think of 5 as being heavier than 1.)

2) Chord 1 moving to Chord 4: the sound goes up (think of 4 as being lighter than 1.)

That's it!


Before I go, here are other chord progressions that uses 1,4 & 5

1) 1 - 4 - 5
2) 1 - 4 - 5 - 4 - 1
3) 1 - 5 - 1 - 4 - 1
4) 1 - 5 - 4 - 5 - 1

Now, go get your guitar.
Practice the 5 exercises from the previous videos by heart.
Compose your own stuff with these chords.
And have fun!


Note: We've used the 7th chords (B7 & F7) in the previous exercises as substitutes
for the normal chords B & F for the sake of easy in fingering
for beginners.

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Guitar Chord Shifting & Strumming Exercises for Beginners