Dale Lawrence, part three

You want to learn guitar chords fast and easy, but what do they tell you? Practice! Practice! Practice! You say okay, but what do I practice, and exactly how do I practice? How long does it take to learn? And hey, where do I get a chord chart to start with? *Learn D major and A major first. Switching back and forth between the two, with one strum, change, one strum change. You may be slow at first but at this point speed doesn’t count, sound does. Start A to D, then D to A. When you can move a little faster and strum the right strings without plunks or oops, strum them 2, 3, 4 times and each and make a quick change between them that stays on beat. You are now ready to progress but let’s not get too crazy and throw in B or F bar chords just yet. Patience Grasshopper. *Let’s move to C major and E major. We are sticking with majors because they have a happy sound to them as opposed to minors and we don’t want to get bummed at this point. All these chords can interact in any order you wantand still sound more like a song than practice. Cool. *Now we add the G major and we have the basis for many songs. (Sometimes they’ll throw in E minor instead of E major.) *If you come this far and you can move between these chords, then you should be able to pick up and master a new chord a day. 30 to 60 minutes a day and within a month, boom! 30 chords! *At this point you want to jump over to the site and get the printable guitar chords chart and check out the pictures that go along with them, so you can make sure your doing them right. Also, check out the practice videos to see how to do this technique. *Remember to spread the gift, so as you get good at this, share it one other person.