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When you're watching a guitarist to accompany a singer sometimes you marvel at how quickly your fingers move to accommodate chord changes. At Sometimes the hand of a guitar player is still moving at lightning speed from one end of the fretboard to another, while reorganizing their fingers in another way to wake up. Unfortunately, the new guitar students often try to imitate what they see experienced guitar players doing, and it does not work.
If you is to have had some experience in changing chords or not, you remember how your learning first chords. You see the C major chord on a guitar teacher painstakingly put these three fingers on the strings. So you think you are not just your fingers do not press hard enough to make a clean sound, but they are also stifling the open strings. You make some adjustments and, with some holding their breath and some tearing, you can make a more or less clean sound chord C. Then you look at the F chord and is "Oh, my Lord, I really want to do this?"
And often people do give up the chord changes, after a few attempts. The apparent simplicity of the chord changes that we see when we watch guitarists masks the complexity of work muscle actions that occur when you change chords. So when we try to play chords need to remember to try and be aware of the number of small actions that we are doing instead of trying to pass over them.
The way to be aware that our fingers, hands, wrists and arms are doing is to try relax as you take each chord shape. Remember that there is nothing wrong with you. You are not abnormal, because you can not do the chord changes fast with no practice. Every single guitar player you have ever seen, even grunge and metal guitarists, had to go through months of practice to get the changes chords of work.
The more you relax more slowly and deliberately you work on giving up a way to wake up and taking the next one finger at a time, faster, cleaner and without stress changes its wake will be. If you start with open chords AD and E work for about ten minutes on the change between A and D and then the same in going from D to E and then A to E, which is its work on the chord changes for the day. Select a set of different strings for each days, with ten minutes a day for review.
So work on changing chords as above, and after a month changes between open strings the arms move faster than the tense.
One way to help you relax in changing guitar strings is to set your metronome at a speed very slow, strum a chord for four beats, strumming the guitar strings open for four beats, while you're moving in the next chord form, then four hits on the next string. But while you're still a beginner, you can do a lot of practice chords without changing the metronome to relax the muscles as you practice becomes second nature.
Another aspect of the chord changes that should become second nature is viewing each chord as you are taking. This also should be done slowly. It is not necessarily what you "see" the placement of the fingers in your mind's eye, but while you are confident that they are aware of where and how you're putting your fingers. Your viewing and implementation of the chord change will eventually start to happen at the same time - IF YOU DO NOT RUSH!
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