Top 3 Chord Progressions for BEGINNERS!

In this video, I want to show you my top 3 chord progressions for beginner acoustic guitar. This is going to start from total beginner and end at kind of a perfect consolidation, and each of these is going to have the chord diagrams on screen, and also, we're going to highlight the bar that we're on at any one time to teach you how to read chord progressions and chord diagrams, all at the same time as jamming along, if you wish. So you can grab your guitar and just jam along to these chord progressions right. Away, hopefully. Each of these is taken from my beginner's course, which we've just had a huge update on. These are just 3 chord progressions with audio tracks and play-along videos, and we've just added 21 of these in total. So 3 tracks per level, there's 7 levels in total. The jam tracks are downloadable. The whole course is now only available as part of my AAA membership. More info on that can be found. At the link at the top of the description, click that if this is something you're interested in. But let me show you this first track first of all, which is just 2 bars of the A major, 2 bars of D major, and I'm gonna give you some tips in this play-along video. Check it out. Level 2, jam track one, we're going for 2 bars of the A major chord, 2 bars of D major. Start off with just a single strum per bar. So per chord, and then if possible, you can go for 8th strumming here, all down as done in lesson 31 and 2 and 3 and 4. And the BPM is nice and slow, so this should be doable. Let me know how you get on with this in the comments below. Maybe watch this first of all and then join into it and have a go at just playing along to the audio track, which you'll find underneath this video. Let's have a go at this. 2 Single strums. A major. A man Then My thumb's gonna be on top, throughout. And on the 8th 1. D major. Demon A This is the And D. Finish on one There we go, that's jam track 1. Try that along to just the audio track, so you haven't got my speaking over it, and let me know how you get on with that in the comments below. So that's our first jam track, that's from level 2, there's 3 jam tracks at that level. This next one I'm gonna show you is from level 5, where we look at the C major chord and how to change to that C chord from the G major, from the D major, and we look at other strumming patterns and even melodies that we can play over these basic chords. As you probably know, G, C, and D are the 14, and 5 in the key of G major, which is something we look at at this level. And also, I wanna let you know about some feedback we've had about these jam tracks already, which is that some of them are a little short. They're all just under 2 minutes, predominantly. And uh some people have said, oh, I want to loop this and make it, or have a 5 minute version of this. And to that, this is a really important piece of advice, I feel, because that, for me, is the equivalent of doing exercise. Wanting to get stronger, so doing weights, but just doing more reps at a lower weight. And I think most of us would agree that if you want to build muscle, it's probably better to go up the weights rather than just doing more rep of tiny weights and just doing, like, 100 reps of a bench press or something. And that's kind of the equivalent of this. If you're wanting to practise basic open chords, like a two-chord song for 5 minutes or something, you'll probably find you have more success playing for a short. Amount of time, but trying a more challenging chord progression or a more challenging strumming pattern, because most songs you're going to play don't last 5 minutes, they last between 2 and 3.5 minutes. And of course, we're learning all of this so that we can learn to play along to our favourite songs, the real songs by artists we love. That is what we hope to train you to do here, and there's loads of songs with G, C, and D, as I've made many videos on the past. Here's this chord progression, let me know what you think to it in the comments below. Level 5, chord progression 1. This is going to begin with a single. Of G major Then to C major, back to G. And then D major. This is in the key of G major. And these are the 145 in the key of G. We talked a little bit about that earlier. Uh, and we're just gonna start with single strums and once we've done it once, just strum on the beat. Pretty straightforward, a little bit of a longer jam track this time. So it's just about 90 seconds or so. Uh, but join in with me and then jam along to the audio track alone. Here we go. 1. 2 1234 singles. D On the beat. Two more times Final time. And that is jam track 1 for level 5. Let me know how you get on with that in the comments below. Don't forget to jam along just to the audio track to tick this one off the list. Hopefully that was something that you could do. If not, we have loads of help to get you at that level in my Beginner's course link at the top of the description. But here is the final jam track of this whole course, which is centred around the B7 chord. And this B7 chord is a real gateway chord to being able to play bar chords, because we're Using that little finger independently, and we're using all four fingers in a grip that's not too dissimilar from a bar chord shape, from what's required are fingers 23, and 4. So it's a real gateway chord, I've found, this one. And here it is in a really common chord progression in the key of G yet again. Welcome to the final jam track of this beginner's course, level 7, track 3, and this is gonna be G major, B7. E minor and then C major uh to a strumming pattern which is the most common strumming pattern ever but with swing. This is quite a busker uh or kind of a racist style uh strumming pattern to be honest with you, but it's in so many different um genres and songs, we just need to be able to do down, down, up, up, down. But it's getting that swing of the 8th note. The 8th note's a little bit late, not down, da da da da. Da da da. That's what we're wanting, that's the trick. We'll start off as always. Uh, we'll go through two rounds of the, uh, single strums. Twice round that, and then on with the shrimp pan. Here we go, ready in one. 1234. And the strumming pattern. That is our final jam track. Thank you very much for checking out these jam tracks. Let me know how you've got on with them in the comments below, and be sure to uh download and check out any of those jam tracks and play along to them just on their own, not just over relying on the video to make sure you've got the skills going forward to achieve all your musical goals. So there are my 3 picks from all of the 21. Jam tracks available in my beginner's course link at the top of the description, then let me know what you think. What's, uh, what's one of your favourite chord progressions? How do you find jamming along to these jam tracks? Is this something that you're into? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, and I really hope to see you guys in the next video. Subscribe if you haven't already, and check out that beginner's course at Andyguitar.co.uk.