Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

Overview

“Now that you've learned your first four chords and how to transition between them, it's time to learn your first song. We’ll use a sequence of E minor, G major, D major, and C major. We'll ensure your chords are memorized, practice transitions, and add a strumming pattern to play the song smoothly.”

In this video lesson Michelle Joyce addresses the topic: Playing Your First Song, which is part of the Domestika online course: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song. Join Michelle Joyce and learn to play guitar. Master the basics with structured lessons on chords, rhythms, and practice routines..

Partial transcription of the video

“Now that you've learned your first four chords, how to transition between them and also strumming, it's time to learn your first song. So the order of these four chords that we're going to play is E minor, to G major, to D major, to C major. So let's make sure first that your chords are memorized and next we're going to look at our transitions just real quick. So we have E minor to G, just like this, and there really isn't a good anchor point to you, so this is where chord memorization comes into play and really locking in your muscle memory so those fingers land down all at the same time. ...”

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Course summary for: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

• Level: Beginner
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• 4556 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
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• Category

  Music & Audio

• Areas

  Music, Music Production