Gibsons Learn & Master Guitar with Steve Krenz

Open Chords

POWER WORKOUT

Open chords are the foundation, the starting place for most rhythm guitar
beginner
playing. If you can master these open chord forms, youll be able to play an
incredible amount of songs. This workout starts easy and gradually becomes
more and more challenging. Well work through 30 exercises of the basic open chords that every guitar player
needs to know and have ready to be used at a moments notice: major chords, minor chords, seventh chords,
minor seventh chords, and even a few suspended chords.

Open Major, Minor, & Seventh Chords

Play these exercises two times through at 90bpm.

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Play these exercises one time through at 90bpm.

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Minor Seventh & Suspended Chords

Play these exercises one time through at 100bpm.

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Strumming Patterns

Play these exercises two times through at 110bpm.

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Play these exercises two times through at 120bpm.

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Some people might think this workout is easy. Others might have a hard time keeping up. Either way is alright.
Find the place where youre comfortable and go from there. If you couldnt get all the way through them,
write down how far you could go today and try it again tomorrow. After a few days, you will begin to see
your progress and thats what it is all about.
For more ideas and instruction check out the award-winning Gibsons Learn & Master Guitar course at
www.LearnAndMaster.com and the lessons section at www.gibson.com for all the help you need to become
the player you want to be!

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