Hiya guys, Andy here again and in this lesson we're going to cover how to change between the E, A and the D major chords
and they're the first three chords that we've covered in this beginner's course.
So we have individual chord lessons for those if you haven't covered one of those chords yet.
This is gonna cover the changes.
So this is our newest D chord.
Strumming again from string four.
And this first finger is essentially in the same place for our A major chord as well. We just need to slide it back to this side of the fret
so that we can play this A major chord comfortably and correctly.
So, the change between the D chord and the A chord is the most essential first of all because we can do more songs with it.
But it's also the easiest change.
So this is our D major chord.
Second and third finger lift off, and then the first finger stays down, it slides to this side of the fret
and then we have the middle finger above, third finger below and there's our A major chord.
To change back, the first finger stays down, we slide it to this side of the fret again...
middle finger and third finger go where we know they already go for that D chord 'cos we've memorised it already and we can strum from string four.
So, that a couple more times. Slide it over is the main thing, which will make it as comfortable as it can be.
There's our A. And without sliding over, this can happen with our D chord.
And nothing rings out, ok? So it's essential to be at this side of the fretboard.
So that everything rings out correctly. And therefore we just need that slight mobility of the first finger.
Which was covered when we first learned how to change between the E chord and the A chord.
So when we changed between the E and the A in the first few lessons of this course, we had the E major chord...
The first finger stayed down, we slid to the second fret...there's our A major chord.
And then when we change from A to D, first finger stays down but again it slides over a little bit and we go to that D chord.
And that way we can get great changes between the E and the A, and the A and the D.
But there's one more change that is much trickier and that's between the E and the D.
Now this happens less often but it does still happen in pretty much all the songs that we're gonna go for.
So we want to make sure that this change is good. So if we start with the E major chord, the first chord that we looked at.
There's our E chord. All six strings strummed.
We move this first finger over a fret, but right over to this side, then we can go for that D chord.
Now, if we look at how far this middle finger has to travel, it's going from string five to string one - so it is a bigger change...
but with some practice, and really sticking with this anchor finger idea where we keep the first finger down...
you will be able to get this chord change and use it in the songs that are coming up soon.
E major, slide that first finger all the way over here, D major.
So they are the three changes that we need to play our three chords and change between them well... and that's gonna enable us to play these songs.
We're gonna cover a new strumming pattern before we get to those songs, and that's gonna be 8ths all-down strumming.
So this is gonna make your song sounds really come alive.
And some of the songs we're gonna cover only change between two chords, which allows us to look at this strumming hand a little bit more.
So I hope to see you on that next strumming lesson, or you can straight onto the songs which are available on the website at andyguitar.co.uk.
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