In this lesson, we will be learning how to play all three chords in the key of E minor. In a chord progression. A chord progression is a series of chords played one after the other. Sometimes you hang on one for a while before you switch to the next. Sometimes you just play it twice. Right away you switch like that.

What you see below me on the screen are eight measures. A measure is what divides the rhythm in music up so that you're not just playing for eternity on a certain chord or something like that. So we have four counts per measure, which for our sake, now we'll just say our four strums. So each measure will have four strums, so 1234 and you can see the first measure has an E minor written over it. So that means we need to play the E minor Looking at the next measure, it's an E minor again. So we play that four times.

And then we have the aces over the next measure. So we switch to our aces to and play that four times. And so on to the next measure until we get to the end where you'll see the double bar line, which means that we are finished the song, and that's what those little lines are called, are called bar lines. In case you're wondering, in order to start practicing this chord progression, I would first strum through the whole chord progression four times each measure. And then I would go back and work on the core transitions. So for example, from E minor to a sus two now you can strum four times for the E minor and then go to the aces two or you can just jump a minor once and then go to the aces.

For example, or E minor, to where it goes to the D sus two Okay, and then go back and try to strum through the whole chord progression again. And the idea is that you want it to be seamless throughout as best you can. So for example 1234 no pause the next chord, no pause, right. So go through the chord progression as much as you can each day and see if you can work out those chord transitions to make it as fluid as possible. Now let's go to the next lesson where we will learn how to use a different strum pattern in order to work our way through the key of E minor.