{"id":1926,"date":"2022-09-14T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2022-09-27T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:16:00","slug":"easy-10-minute-guitar-workout-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/easy-10-minute-guitar-workout-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy 10-Minute Guitar Workout &#8211; How to Play C and D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/13180425\/co-easy-10-minute-guitar-workout-for-beginners-part-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(Download the sheet music for this video)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this beginner guitar workout, we\u2019ll be practicing the C major and D major chords. We\u2019ll begin with a few exercises that focus on playing each guitar chord on its own, followed by some exercises that will help you go back and forth between them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to check out the first two parts of this series where we focus on different chord changes, you can find them here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 1 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/easy-10-minute-guitar-workout\/\">How to Play G and Em<br><\/a>Part 2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/easy-10-minute-guitar-workout-part-2\/\">How to Play Em and C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get the most from this lesson, be sure to follow along with Ayla in the video. You can also download all the sheet music at the top of this page. You should be familiar with the format at this point, so let\u2019s get started with these new chords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Strum an <strong>C major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong><\/li><li>Pick each individual string of the <strong>C major<\/strong> chord on the beat<\/li><li>Strum an <strong>C major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong>, then release pressure for <strong>4 beats<\/strong><\/li><li>Strum an <strong>C major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong>, then take hand off and point at the screen<\/li><li>Take a short break and stretch out your fingers<\/li><li>Strum a <strong>D major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong><\/li><li>Pick each individual string of the <strong>D major<\/strong> chord on the beat<\/li><li>Strum a <strong>D major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong>, then release pressure for <strong>4 beats<\/strong><\/li><li>Strum a <strong>D major<\/strong> chord and hold for <strong>4 beats<\/strong>, then take hand off and point at the screen<\/li><li>Take another break and stretch out your fingers<\/li><li>Play <strong>C major<\/strong> for <strong>2 bars (8 beats)<\/strong> followed by <strong>D major<\/strong> for <strong>2 bars (8 beats)<\/strong><\/li><li>Play <strong>C major<\/strong> for <strong>1 bar (4 beats)<\/strong> followed by <strong>D major <\/strong>for <strong>1 bar (4 beats)<\/strong><\/li><li>Play <strong>C major<\/strong> for <strong>2 beats<\/strong> followed by <strong>D major<\/strong> for <strong>2 beats<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s a wrap for this workout. If you notice your fingers hurting a little bit that\u2019s perfectly normal, it just means it was an effective practice session. We\u2019ll see you back here soon for another beginner guitar workout with a new set of open chords!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Download the sheet music for this video) In this beginner guitar workout, we\u2019ll be practicing the C major and D major chords. We\u2019ll begin with a few exercises that focus on playing each guitar chord on its own, followed by some exercises that will help you go back and forth between them.&nbsp; If you\u2019d like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,11,412,215,413,404,140,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}