As we did last time for One Minute Changes, but with some new chords to speed up!

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1 Minute Changes

So you should always remember to:

"Practice what you can't do, don't practice what you can"

So if you find one of these changes easy, then substitute it for a change that you find hard. The following changes all have something about them that I think is good to practice, so this is a suggested list to start you off, but then just get in work on the ones that you find hardest!

1. Am to E - trying to move the shape without placing one finger at a time.

2. Am to Dm - work on getting the 3rd finger up near the fret.

3. A to Dm - anchor the 3rd finger.

4. E to D - more work on the anchoring.

5. Em to D - just to notice how much easier it was when we had an anchor!

In an ideal world you would do every chord change possible for every chord that you know, but once you get to say 8 chords (which we will very soon) it would take a long long time to do all the changes. (maybe some clever dude can let me know how many possibilitoes there are... and someone's emailed in and said that the answer is 28!! cheers Francisco!

It's strange but working on just some of them, they all improve. Not 100% sure why that is, but my guess is that as you develop your muscle control all the changes get easier.

And by just working for 5 minutes you will have time to work on other stuff on your routine.

 

Next I am going to introduce an old and very dear friend in BC-125 • Introducing the metronome

 

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