BC-124 • 1 Minute Changes

[justinguitar]

Questions...

Lesson Link: http://justinguitar.com/en/BC-124-1MinuteChanges.php

[rohit93]

Hmm, are these the only 1 minute changes we do? :
--- Am to E     
--- Am to Dm    
--- A to Dm    
--- E to D
--- Em to D

I thought that we had to do all of them:
Em to E/A/D/Am/Dm
Am to E/A/D/Dm
Dm to E/A/D

Or is it fine just to do the ones that you suggested?

[justinguitar]

If you do all of them it would take too much time.

And you will find that by working on some that they all improve - it's wierd, but it works... guess it's to do with muscle control.

J

[Eag1e]

I'm terribly slow at switches with Dm right now. I'll need to work on that quite a bit, I think. Rest are pretty easy for me so far though!

So should I only be doing AmE, AmDm, ADm, ED, and EmD now and not continue doing AD and AE any more?

By the way, I'm at 44 and 64 individual switches (22 and 32 sets) respectively in my last session, if that'd hep you tell me.

[Eag1e]

Oh, by the way, it would be 28 different combinations.

AAm, AC, AD, ADm, AE, AEm, AG, AmDm, AmEm, CAm, CD, CDm, CE, CEm, CG, DAm, DDm, DE, DEm, DG, DmEm, EAm, EDm, EEm, EG, GAm, GDm, GEm

[justinguitar]

So should I only be doing AmE, AmDm, ADm, ED, and EmD now and not continue doing AD and AE any more?

Work on the 5 that you find the hardest. J

[Eag1e]

Hi Justin. I just did a round of all fifteen combinations available at this point to see what I was worst with.

Well, I've found that the clear answer is pretty much stuff with Dm in it (though D/Am is my fifth worst, giving me trouble at a rate of only 28 single switches per minute, but I think I'll get it up there pretty quick).

Dm is terribly akward for me to switch to, and on A/Dm, D/Dm, E/Dm, and Am/Dm, I end up accidentally muting at least one string probably over half the time.

Will I naturally get over this, to where I can get some speed into those changes and not mute Dm so much? Or is there something I need to do to help myself along?

[rhcpmax]

Hi Justin,

It seems that in my changes from D minor to A minor, my first finger naturally sort of steps from the first string to the second string before i put my other fingers down. This plays fine, but is this a bad habit?

Cheers,

[tris]

By the way: to compute the total number of possible one minute changes, use the binomial coefficient. That is, you take the total number n of chords and compute

n choose 2 = (n!)/(2*(n-2)!)=n*(n-1)/2.

When getting to 12 chords, that would make 66 one minute changes. 

Enjoy,
Tristan
Mathematician 

[Chutzpah]

Justin, I was almost cynical when I saw the video for this... pretty much "well, I don't see how that would work brilliantly", but did it because I trusted you 

I have to say, the result are miraculous. On some of the chord changes now I actually find it better not to look at the guitar which is something that I've always wanted to be able to do. It's the same with touch typing - once your fingers know where they have to go it's better not to look at all (and I always figured that since I can touch type I should be able to change chords without looking with practice).

I honestly find it hard to believe that something so simple can produce such quick results, it's a shame because I'm sure a lot of people will look at the idea and think it isn't worth the effort. So this is a heads up to others to try it!

I just wish somebody had told me to do this when I was 12...

[PJMCM]

By the way: to compute the total number of possible one minute changes, use the binomial coefficient. That is, you take the total number n of chords and compute

n choose 2 = (n!)/(2*(n-2)!)=n*(n-1)/2.

When getting to 12 chords, that would make 66 one minute changes. 

Enjoy,
Tristan
Mathematician 

Wouldn't it be great fun to be stuck in an elevator with you!!

[tris]

By the way: to compute the total number of possible one minute changes, use the binomial coefficient. That is, you take the total number n of chords and compute

n choose 2 = (n!)/(2*(n-2)!)=n*(n-1)/2.

When getting to 12 chords, that would make 66 one minute changes. 

Enjoy,
Tristan
Mathematician 

Wouldn't it be great fun to be stuck in an elevator with you!!

Don't worry, I was just fooling around. And you would be surprised how much music and math have in common! Most members of our department play an instrument.

Tristan

[licksnkicks]

I can go to Am to Em blindly.  Yahoo!  This is soooooooooooooo bloody brilliant. 

Licksnkicks

[Wes_FR]

Having a lot of trouble with all the changes involving Dm (apart from D-Dm where I still have an anchor finger). I keep on sticking at a low rate of 25-35 switches p/m (with the others I'm approx. 45-55, which is decent at this stage I hope?), no matter the amount of practise I've put through so far. I'm hoping it's just a matter of time until I can do them more fast.

But the main reason why I posted is because I noticed a small fault in the 'article' for this lesson. It says "Next we are going to look at something strange... BC-125 • Foot tapping", but the Foot Tapping lesson is actually BC-126. There is no linking to the real BC-125, the lesson about the metronome.

[bakura]

Hi,

First of all I have to say that those exercises are really usefull. In a little more than 1 week I have doubled all the changes I can do in one minute. However, and because I always press quite hard the strings (maybe this is because I'm really anxious...), those 1 minute changes hurt, at the end, my wrist. Is this normal ?