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Chord Progressions
With the chord strums, you were playing basically one chord.
With a chord progression, you are playing multiple chords with your strum patterns. This means that you are moving fairly quickly from one chord to the next so your strum pattern won't get messed up. This will force you to make those chords that you have been practicing quicker. You don't have as much time to carefully place your fingers to make the chord, so you must place your fingers on the fretboard all at once with the chord pattern. At first, this might sound a little hard, but don't get frustrated. You will find, after a few days of practicing these progressions, that you sound better and the chords are easier for you to form. Once you have learned a chord progression and can play it well, you are PLAYING the guitar!
Below I will show you some chord progressions and give you some examples of how some of them will sound. I will play a chord progression with a certain strum, but you will want to play each progression with all of the strums you know.
Here are your first 8 chord progressions:
A-D-A-E
C-G-C-G
C-F-C-G
D-G-D-A
G-C-G-D
E-A-E-B
Am-Em-Am-Em-Am-Em-C-D-Em-Em-Em-Em
Cm-Gm-Fm-Gm-Bm-Fm-G-C
Click on the flowing music icon for each of the 3 progressions in order to hear them.
Chord Progression 1
With 4/4 Strum
Chord Progression 4
With 3/4 Strum
Chord Progression 7
With Rolling Strum
Notice how I play the progression twice in chord progression 4. Try to continue each
progression for more than just one time through.
