Learn a 1st Position Guitar Exercise in G Major

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf on Expert Village. We just talked about the G C D chords. The three significant chords in the key of G. Now we're going to explore an exercise to get those rooted in our head, so we can access it at any time. The first G. Second chord C. Third chord D. We're going to do a G C D C exercise like we've done in previous exercises. It will go like this. G C D C and then we cycle that over and over again. Now you're going to want to get your metronome out as we do this exercise together, okay? Set it for sixty beats per minute and we're going to give one strum to each chord and then count to four, okay? Just like this. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One. Just like that. Make sure you cycle that over and over again until you can do it with confidence. Adding more strums over each beat like right now we're doing a strum on the one. You can do a strum on the one and the two or the one and the two and three to make it a little more challenging. And once you can strum it four times and switch each chord within a beat then increase your metronome tempo. In the next segment we're going to talk about the second position of a G C D chord pattern. I'll see you then."