EGS Lesson Seven Introducing major and minor chords
EGS Lesson Seven Introducing major and minor chords
Set the GuitarXtractor to 60 beats per minute and strum on EVERY click. The aim is to land all fingers on the new chord on the first beat of the next bar.
One of the reasons that the Xtractor is so useful is that it forces you to keep playing, even if the chord changes are not quite perfect. It is very important to keep the rhythm going without stopping, as eventually the chord changes will catch up with the strumming. Avoid pauses, in between strums, due to waiting on the fingers to form the chord shape.
Once the changes are fluent at this speed, gradually increase the [Xtractor] tempo, thereby increasing the speed at which the chords are changed.
Look for any common ground between two chords to help minimise movement. For example, the first finger on the fretting hand occupies the same note on a G chord as it does on an E minor (fifth string, second fret) – so there is no need for it to move when these chords follow each other. In the exercise below, practise changing between the chord of G and the chord of Em.
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