Thanks, I missed that when looking back at it.
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Have them mapped out in a spreadsheet for reference. 
As to the Key with both A and C major ? None I believe, as they are 3 semi tones apart. So would be used as a borrowed chord. For example in the Key of A Major borrowing the III C from the Key of A minor.
Someone more knowledgeable like @Richard_close2u or @stitch will confirm that. 
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Correct Toby.
A major can be in the same keys as:
A, D, E (I ,IV, V)
E, A, B, (I, IV, V)
D, G, A (I, IV, V)
If a progression has both A major and C major one of them is an āout-of-keyā chord. Borrowed from a different key.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
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If not found yet, I think the talk about alternating bass notes is part of the slash cord lesson
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Thanks Mike will take a look. I did that under the old BC so it may have been updated. But pretty much sussed it out in the meantime with some non Justin stuff Iām working on. Thx.
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Non Justin stuff??? How very dare you 
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@mdsousa is on it. The slash chord lesson involves laying a bass note onto an open chord. That bass note is a good start for a climb.
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Is there any songs that are suitable for practicing this?
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Can someone suggest a song to practice the chord linking C to G? Itās difficult to find a song which matches the country style rhythm that Justin shows in the video. Any help would be appreciated.
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is a good one. Iām not sure Justin includes the bass runs in his lesson, but you could add them. The whole song is just C and G.
Blowinā in the Wind (no Justin lesson) is another song that has the C-G bass walk down. Or you could take any A-D-E song that Justin teaches and transpose it to the key of G. In other words A ā G, D->C and E->D. Now you have plenty of C <-> G transitions to play around with.
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Hmm, like @Adi66 mentions I donāt recall an alternating bass line course in grade 2. Yes there is the slash chord lesson, thatās not about alternating bass though like mentioned - and the songs mentioned there donāt really use alternating basslines, they use moving ones (yes Iāve been practicing some). Iād really like to learn the right way to do that.
The lesson content makes sense - moving up and down a scale between chords - but that alternating bass in a chord, are there specific ways that should be done? The closest Iāve seen on this so far is the āI Walk The Lineā lesson, but that only has a couple of chords in it.
Thanks.
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C to F is rushed a little in its explanation, finding it tricky to get my head around it!
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I decided to sit down on a cold, dreary Sunday and lay out a chord progression that allows me to practice all the different changes Justin mentioned in the video. Hereās what it looks like:
G - C - F - C - A - E - A - D -
Am - Dm - Em - Am - D - E - A - D -
Am - Em - Dm - Am - D - A - D - A -
C - Am - C - G - E - D - A - E -
The progression āmodulatesā between the keys of C and A after every 4 chords.
There are actually 3 more chord changes in this than specifically mentioned in the video, but like Justin said, āexplore!ā
Iām starting off by strumming 2 bars (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ) of each chord and experimenting with different ideas for the 2-note links to replace the last ā4 +ā.
It wonāt win any Grammys, but it gives me one exercise to practice a bunch of links and to explore which link ideas sound good to me.
Maybe others will find it helpful. 
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For going from C to F, I also quite like C->B->G->F and the other way around
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This really frustrated me. The problem for me is the strumming pattern he uses is tricky for grade 3. A simpler explanation/pattern at the beginning would have saved me 45 minutes at least.
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I think this the lesson to combine with.
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Is there a lesson specifically on finding that string after strumming? I normally pick with my palm on the guitar for reference (without looking) to find a string, but when strumming my palm comes away/above; so, when I need to quickly find the 5th string to walk it up or down, I often miss. Is this just a case of practicing until your muscle memory just finds it or is there a technique or trick?
The closest lesson I found that might help me is the āTarget Each String WHILE Strumming!ā video from Module 17. It doesnāt quite answer my question but it gets at the same idea: picking strings while/after strumming. The Rhythm Guitar Basics 5 video referenced is also helpful (and maybe a better reference than the one from Module 17), but it does not address strum, pick, strum, pick directly (unless I missed it). It seems like maybe it is simply a practice thing. I notice (in that other video) that Justin sets his fingers down on the guitar while picking. Maybe I need to try that instead of relying on feeling my wrist or palm against the bridge. Maybe my fingers could quickly get anchored on the pick guard areaā¦
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I played G run C run G run Bm, Am and ended up with a sort of crappy version of Lean on Me
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You Sir, just saved my life 
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Hi everyone!
Justin mentions that we link major chords using major scales and minor chord using minor scales. What if I want to link a major chord with a minor?
Also, can someone explain what exactly is a chromatic scale?
Thanks a lot!
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