The fun begins!! Now as if it wasn't hard enough to play the A Shape Barre Chord - you are now working on changing to and from it! This really helps! It's a pain and it can get frustrating, but stick with it and it won't be long before you are changing effortlessly between all your barre chords!

Practice

These changes should be fast - but they also need to be good - so don't sacrifice a good barre chord for the speed. Once you get the fingers moving right you should find they kinda speed up on their own! strange but true.

So don't be a slouch - work it - try and get those changes going as fast as you can, but try and keep the accuracy too. I know those A Shape Major Barres are little buggers and make the inside of your 3rd finger hurt - happened to all of us. You just have to get through this bit and you'll be there. The other A Shape Barre Grips are pretty easy really - I'm getting you introduced to the hard one first!

I have picked these changes because they are common and take you though the most popular changes that you will likely come across in songs.

The recommended changes are:

1. A (E Shape) to D Major (A Shape)
2. F# (E Shape) to C# Major (A Shape)
3. B (E Shape) to D# Major (A Shape)
4. G minor (E Shape) to C Major (A Shape)
5. Ab minor (E Shape) to E Major (A Shape)

It's gonna be tough, but you can do it - I know you can! :) It's just practice! I promise :)))

Once you feel good with that it's time to check out a new approach to playing the Major Scale!

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