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Play Song: Quality Family Time In G

 

Now let's try and play our song with the backing track. As always you're more than welcome to just watch and listen a few times before you start playing along yourself.

I hope you've enjoyed exploring this relationship between the G, the C and the D chord. Even if the metaphor doesn't quite make sense to you, all you really need to know is that these three chords sound so good together that you find them grouped together in thousands of songs. In fact, most of blues, rock and country songs are built on this chord relationship. This is a huge topic, and we've only scratched the surface in this tutorial, so as always I hope you'll be patient and trust me that it'll all make sense eventually.

Anders Mouridsen
Instructor Anders Mouridsen
Tutorial:
Chord Family In The Key of G
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Any Style
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Questions & Answers

5 months ago
I had to do a lot of extra chord switching practice to be able to move as quickly at this song. I think a turning point for me was not just remembering individual finger movements one at a time but also holding the shape of my whole hand in my muscle memory. It feels like the right direction, but I'd love to know anything to watch out for.
Mike Olekshy 4 months ago

Hello and thanks for your question! It sounds like you are doing all the right things, so keep going! Simply practicing challenging chord changes over and over at a slow tempo is the most effective way to build the muscle memory and speed. When you practice slow, you are able to "map out" where each finger is moving, and eventually the goal is to have each finger move simultaneously to the next chord. Keep at it!

10 months ago
I can do the chord easily by themselves but I struggle to change between them as fast has he does during the song. Should I practice that and be able to do it before continuing to the next lesson?
Josh Workman 9 months ago

Spend time observing what each finger does as you switch between chords. Once you feel comfortable that you are making a little progress, move on to the next lesson but keep a practice log where you can write down what is giving you trouble, so you can go back and work on that issue a little bit every day, as you continue learning new techniques.