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What we will learn in this video is what I call the golden exercise.

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This is the most powerful exercise for taking a specific individual cord and
burying it deep into your

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muscle memory as quick as humanely possible.

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I am going to teach you to exercise in its most basic form and then also some
variations on it that

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you can use when you encounter more challenging chords and I can tell you that I am
still using this

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exercise almost every day when I'm encountering new thoughts.

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So let's begin the way that this exercise works in its most basic form is that your
placing your fingers

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are forming the core.

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Let's say this is a major 9 C Major 9.

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In this example now you are making sure that all of the strings are ringing nicely.

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They should be ringing or they are muted.

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It should be muted.

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You just do it very quickly and then you take your hand you put it on your left to
reset the muscle

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memory and then you put it back on.

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And slowly you started doing it more and more quickly so you can do it more times
anyway.

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So while the basic way of doing this exercise might work great for simple chords
like C D etc..

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Sometimes when we are dealing with the more complex sexy chords that we have in
this course that demand

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all of your four fingers and usually in Odd finger placement stuff that you haven't
encountered before.

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Usually you would want to break this exercise down into a couple of variations that
I am now going to

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show you which will help you played his chords effortlessly much faster.

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Now what is so powerful about this exercise is that lets say you are learning a new
song and this new

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song has a challenging chord.

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Let's say that you're learning to fly me to the moon and it has this mine or nine
more now instead of

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only trying to stumble through the D or nine for the fourth time that it appears
during the entire song

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in the three minutes that you play the entire song.

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What you can do is take this chord and just work on it and instead of just playing
it four times in
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those three minutes you can play it 50 times in those three minutes and just bang
it so deep and burn

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it in your muscle memory.

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And from my experience this is a generalized number but from my experience after
about 200 or 300 400

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times did you play a certain chord you just own it.

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You have it.

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You can play it even in your sleep and you don't have to worry about it anymore so
it might sound like

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a lot but when you just dedicate once in a while those two three minutes to be
scored let's say once

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every two days.

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You can realistically was in a week or two own and you fancy sexy chord that you
never think that you

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would be playing so naturally and you just own it within a week or two.

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So now let's talk practically about how to get the most out of this exercise
especially when it comes

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to complex sports.

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So the first thing I want to say is I don't believe in just sending you is the
principal cause to cheat
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and tell you start doing those exercises one by one until you get all of the chords
down 50 times a

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day blah blah blah.

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Because you're not gonna do it and it's not fun.

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The way to do those exercises is in a fun practical way while you're learning new
songs and you encounter

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those chords and you actually want to be able to play those chords because it will
enable you to fluently

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play these songs.

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That's when you should use those exercises and the way to use this specific
exercise is if this is not

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a very challenging chord so you can just do it in its entirety do it on the entire
chord.

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However the more challenging is that the court is the more you will want to do one
of the variations

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that I give you and I'm going to start with the variation that breaks down the
chord into the smallest

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pieces.

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And this is what you want to do when you encounter and you chord that you are just
having a lot of trouble

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with playing smoothly.
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So this variation I would call it variation one.

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And again we would work from what you would want to do when it's the most
challenging chord to what

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you're doing when the court is not that challenging and variation one is simply
finger by finger for

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the sake of the example let's take the minor six or cheap in this case it's an A
minus six.

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Right here the route on the fifth fret was our second finger we're playing now.

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First of all I will put the first finger because this is the foundation finger.

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So that is the finger that I want to put first.

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So here's the full I will just slowly teach my first finger that this is where it
should land.

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In this court I will put it here on the fourth string.

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And I will do it several times and then I'm already off through those ten seconds
that I was doing get

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my first finger already knows much better.

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What is its role in forming this court.

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After I've then I've done it 10 times.

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I will do the same with the second finger just the same.

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Then I will do just the same with the third finger.

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And you will see it gets more challenging with the third and the fourth finger
because these are the

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weaker fingers.

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Do not cheat and do like this but actually open it up right here on your lap.

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Your muscle memory would be reset and each time you would do it.

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It will just burn deeper into your muscle memory.

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So this is the first variation.

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You just do it with the fingers one by one.

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The second variation is very similar but in the second variation what we're going
to do is we are going

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to be doing that finger by finger but the fingers will be adding up.

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So first we're going to do it several times only with the first finger but then
we're going to be adding

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also the second finger.

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Then we will move the fingers one two and three at the same time and then
eventually after several times
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who will do it entirely with all of the fingers.

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So that was the second variation the third variation is going to be dividing the
chord into two chunks.

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That means we're going to do it with fingers one and two and then we're also going
to be working on

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it with fingers three and four.

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Now this is a great way to work on finger 3 and 4 which are the weaker fingers and
you will see how

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from fingers that don't really feel completely hooked on the fretboard and not
really know what to do

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in those new court shapes.

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Suddenly everything will work much more smoothly after you practice this variation
for a while.

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So again the third variations is work on it several times with fingers one and two
and then several

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times fingers transform because we are dividing the chord into two chunks.

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This is it.

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These are the three variations of fourth variations is simply just doing the chord
in its entirety which

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is also the most basic form.
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So.

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So this is the chord reset the most powerful exercise to teach you any new chord.

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The quick recap of what we did first the fall you can always do it in its entirety
with the whole chord.

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However the more challenging that the court is the more you will want to break it
down into smaller

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pieces so you can do it was one of the three first variations that I gave you.

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Either finger by finger each finger by itself or a second way is doing it finger by
finger.

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But when the fingers are adding up first just finger one then finger 1 and 2 finger
1 2 and 3 and then

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all of the fingers together and the third variation is dividing it into two chunks
fingers 1 and 2 and

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then fingers 3 and 4.

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Make sure you don't cheat and you actually completely open and relax your hand on
the lap and you will

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see how you're going to burn through any new chord that you set your sights on.

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I'll see you in the next video.