Hi, Welcome back to week three of guitar lessons in the music coach program. This week, you're going to be working on switching between the chords. Now on the guitar, a lot of what we're doing is muscle memory. I had a teacher once he used to talk about guitar chords, they were like grips. They're like a way of holding like the way you'd hold a tennis racket or a golf club. So getting used to the each grip is one thing, and the next phase of it is learning how to move from one to another.

And getting to know these first chords is going to be about learning how to switch between them as well. So to begin with, in the practice video, you're going to be working on very slowly moving from one chord to the next. For example, it's going to start by going E minor to G at first, whatever I want you to do is as soon as you've played the chord right away, just start moving to the next chord. It doesn't sound as musical as the finished product, which is going to sound like this. But right now our goal isn't to have the thing be totally polished, more of what I want you to get used to is switching in the right place rhythmically, so that the chords line up with the song that you're playing. So what you're doing right now might sound a bit like this, like a sound, and then another sound, and it might sound a little bit off as you get your fingers ready to play the next chord.

But that's actually what I'd like you to have happen. More important that the chords land in the right place and that they sound perfect. Another thing is if you're having trouble and sometimes some of the notes are not speaking or they're a little buzzy, just be patient. It can take some time for everything to get, just so that all the notes are speaking. If you want to work just on that you can play no Individually, you make the shape of the chord, like a C chord, and then play each string. And if you're hearing this kind of sound, then you can look and see which string is having trouble and figure out what's touching it or if it's not being pushed in hard enough.

And one last thing, when you're working on these, in your mind, it helps to think ahead. So when you're on the chord that you're on, I want you to also be thinking about what's coming next. And how many streams is it? How many strings are you going to be strumming? You sort of have to be always thinking in the present moment and slightly ahead so that everything lines up in real time. Alright, keep up the great work and we'll see you in the practice video.