Ok a couple of notes here.
Listening through to the track and watching me play will give you an ideal of which chords you are playing where.
The order we are going to be playing this track rather the order of the chords in this track are as follows.
You are going to do G and you are going to hold this for two measures so two counts of four.
One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four.
Next you will go to a D and do that same thing.
One. Two. Three. Four.One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four.
And now C .One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four.
Back to G. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four.
Then it starts over again.
At the beginning we are just doing strums on the one.
Then towards the end we transition to doing strums on every click.
You can do those down strokes like I did or you can do those upstrokes.
Whichever you are most comfortable with.
Then at the end we are strumming pretty fast.
We're actually inserting a strum in between each click which is called an eighth note.
Up until now we have just been strumming quarter notes for the most part.
The ending. Again don't feel bad if you can't do that right off.
When I'm demonstrating these tracks I am demonstrating the depth at which you can use them to practice.
Make sure that you start out just by doing quarter note strums.
Look at the different types of backing tracks that are provided.
There is going to be one that has the guitar included in it so you can listen and follow along.
Then there is another one that does not have any guitar.
It is just bass and just drums so you can play along and you can strum how you want to
within the confines of the time which the track is providing.
The important thing when you are practicing these tracks is that you are clean and that you're changing on time
and that you're practicing your transitions between the chords.
Between lesson number two and this lesson you now have started to learn all of your basic major open position chords.
For remembering all of those if you have trouble with it a nice acronym to use is the word caged.
C.A.G.E.D.
Those are all of your basic open major forms.
When you are not practicing with these tracks or if you just want another way to go through them
it's nice to follow that acronym maybe as just a warm up.
So you start with C. A. G. E. D.
Maybe you would set up your metronome on a comfortable tempo and just work through
those strumming and transitioning on the one of each beat.
That's just another way to practice.
Hopefully you have enjoyed these first couple beginner's series lessons.
We will see you soon.