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paulcavaliere
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paulcavaliere
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12/28/2020 3:26 pm

Hi All,

For context, I just finished Guitar Fundamentals 1. Lisa recommended to go explore songs that would fit GF1 skillsets learned. I went offsite and downloaded a lyric/chord sheet. I want to learn "Small Town" by John Mellencamp. It has chords above the words. It indicates strumming pattern. However in GF1 the learning songs are composed in a way to make it easy to know when to change chords. e.g. A full measure then switch. In "Small Town" the chords are not played for full or half measures sometimes just a beat and a half.

Anyway, my question is with a lyric/chord sheet how do you know when to change chords? (For "Small Town" I viewed some Youtube video's where people teach the song and it made it make sense). But for songs where I download a lyric/chord sheet how is it done?