hi guys welcome to day 9 of this 10 day
guitar starter course with me andy
crowley now many beginners can really
struggle changing between the basic open
chords even for quite a few weeks and
maybe months so in this lesson we're
going to specifically look at the change
between g and c major and also look at
the song hey by outcast using the most
common strumming pattern ever it's a
really great song i'm sure many of you
will enjoy it and let's have a close-up
on how to play the c major chord in the
standard way and change between all
these easy open chords so the first
chord in this song is a standard g major
which we're just gonna play with your
first three fingers one
two
and three if it's more comfortable to
use the four finger way of playing a g
that one's totally fine it's neither an
advantage or a disadvantage to use
either one because the next chord in the
sequence is going to be a full proper c
chord played with our first finger at
the first fret of the second string
middle finger
at the second fret of string four third
finger
third fret
of the fifth string
and we strum from string five
and with the g chord
we want to strum all six strings
and make sure that all ringing out by
picking each one
one at a time
so when we change to this c chord it's
really paramount that we're starting to
acquire the shape of a chord that we're
learning
in kind of in our fingers memorizing the
position and muscle memory that we need
for these chords rather than just
remembering exactly where to place our
fingers from a fret numbers point of
view
so
when i play this c chord specifically
my hand is in this shape it makes this
shape and i've because i've played
guitar for many years i can now make
this c chord shape even when my fingers
are not pressing down now when i do that
it's far easier if they are touching and
they're only going to be touching if
when i play this c chord they're on an
angle pointing towards my right shoulder
and that really helps make the stretch
more doable if you're stretching and
your fingers are vertical it's going to
be quite a nasty stretch whereas like
this and with our thumb just creeping
over the top it's far more comfortable
and when that shape is acquired when
it's memorized in your hands so you
could play it just like this
you know make the shapes of the g
and the c chord that is far easier to
change between because the trick is we
want to change from the g make the shape
of the c chord and then place it down
now this can take a number of days or
weeks to be fully acquired however if
this is what you're practicing there
will be a breakthrough for you i promise
with these chord changes and you may not
have had that breakthrough for a little
time now by the time you get to the
level of this song so it can be really
good to start to get this and really
name nail the change between the g and c
chord
the other chords in this song are then a
d major chord
and an e major chord
in heiya by outcast so we have
so we'll have a quick play through of
here y'all now and i'll talk you through
the strumming and everything like that
but after we've done that we'll come
back and reassess the best way to change
between all these chords because it's
these chords which happen in so many
songs
a sort of beginner level but with a good
amount of strumming and things like that
so this is really what you're wanting to
acquire the change between a g c and a d
without having to over rely on the oasis
style method that i mentioned earlier in
this 10 days articles
my pick has got in my guitar
so to play hey by outcast we're on the g
chord for a single bar
one two three four
we're on the full c chord for two bars
one two three four one two three four
d chord just for two beats so really
quick
one two and then we change we can keep
our first finger down to change between
d two and e major chord
and the e is for two bars so just two
beats on this uh d which is a little
strange we're just gonna play that one
with two strums
and for the rest we can just do a strum
on every beat so this would be g two
three four c two three four c two three
four d d e two three four once more
again
two three four one two three four one
two one two three four one two three
four the thing that we really want to
nail is those changes so let's just
dissect these changes a little bit more
um let's have a look at the g chord
and how we lift off and then make the
shape of the c chord before we press it
down
get to about five millimeters or a
centimeter and then press the c chord
down
lift off of the c chord and then make
the shape of a d so we lift off make the
shape of the d first and then press down
and then again we've got an anchor
finger on the e so it's a little bit
easier we can just put the other two
down
and that anchor finger does make things
a lot easier but we can also rise above
the strings on an e chord and still
practice making that shape and then
depress the strings down
and we're playing each chord let's do
that one more time this is absolutely
the best exercise to improve any chord
change that you're going to be learning
for the foreseeable future really this
is the exercise to do so we start off
with the g chord
we lift off
but
keep the shape of the g chord as you
lift off let's do that one more time
we're on the g
and then we rise by about a centimeter
but we've still got the shape so you can
see that i'm not pressing down but the
shape is memorized in my fingers we
change to a c chord shape but don't
press it down
and then we press and strum
lift off
rise but don't lose that shape if you
need to do it one more time press down
again on the c chord
and then rise up by just a centimeter
just that much change to a d chord shape
if you can't find it press the d chord
down and then just rise above by that
centimeter and see if your fingers can
keep that shape there
press it down and strum
and then change to an e major chord
finally
let's rise above
keeping the shape but we rise
and then go back down and strum the e
chord
let's play along together now to the
full chord sequence just on the beat in
two
three four g two three four c two three
four c two three
one two one two three four one two three
four and it very much follows the words
with that hey
of the chorus
okay so it changes on the words hey yeah
each time in the chorus but we want to
add the most common strumming pattern
ever it's uh a bit more higher level
this one certainly than a total beginner
but we have down down up up down for
each bar
down down up up down
demo with the song
down down up down down down
so one down down up up down on the g
twice on a c
two down strums on the d
and then down down up down twice on the
e chord
last demo then we'll have a go together
so really slow now together let's give
it a go with this high level strumming
pattern from the g chord
in two
three
four
down down up up c
down
g
down up c
again
down down d
d
e major
last time at this kind of speed
d
d e
a little bit slower now so absolutely
everyone can do it and i'll pause a
little bit more for the changes
two
three
four
see
c again
d on two downs
down
key
down
so we go again from the g chord in two
three
four
d
e
last time two
three four
and as i say that loops for the entire
song so hopefully that exercise will
really help you with any chord changes
that happen in any songs and hey yeah
great song by outcast there that is the
end of day 9 of this little guitar
starter course join me for day 10 where
we'll be looking at a blues song and
some blues ideas just to finish up this
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does get incrementally slightly harder
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