Ok, now you've got three chords in the key of G starting with G, C, D and G.
I hope the transitions are coming along nicely for you.
Now what I'd like you to try is I'm going to play a little something here and I'd like you to strum with it.
We're going to have some G strums, C strums, then we'll go to the D chord and to make it more interesting
I'm going to do something a little bit more rhythmic with also a bit of a melody to it so that it sounds a little more like music.
The idea here if it's more fun for you to practice this you'll get more repetitions in
and a little farther down the road in getting that muscle memory trained in both your hands.
So what I'm about to do in this tempo: One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four and it will sound like this.
What I'd like you to do while I'm playing that is go One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, ready go!
Again.
How'd that go for you?
We can do it again and maybe I'll go a little bit slower for you this time
and you can rewind back and forth for the one that's at the right tempo for you.
Let's slow it down a little bit. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.
Ok. Meanwhile you've been doing full strums, working on transitions on your left hand,
telling your right hand that here we do six strings, drop one out and do five, drop one out and do four and then all of them again.
There's your first song.
I honestly have no idea what it's called. I just made it up here with Jeff behind the camera.
The idea is you should be able to start thinking that chords do go with other things.
It's important to be on time, on rhythm and play with somebody else.
I really think that's an excellent building block to work on.
Spend some time on this part of the video and see how you do.
If you're having trouble stay tuned because I've got more for you.