Learning Chord Changes05/30/06Learning Chord ChangesLink: http://guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=561 In two days I start my second 'semester' of my beginner/intermediate guitar class. At the start of this class, the teacher is going to essentially give me my final exam from last semester again. If I pass this 'makeup test', then I get to go to the advanced class. I am not ready. I freely admit I haven't been practicing as much as I should. I think I'm taking this class as much to force me to keep practicing as to try to learn how to play the guitar. The fact that I know I'm going to be going to class and I am expected to get better at this stuff is forcing me to continue to practice and try to focus on getting all this stuff straight. The article linked to by this blog shows a good technique for practicing clean chord changes (which I call 'chord transitions'). I'm goint to try this technique tonight and see how it goes... 2 comments
Comment from: john [Visitor]
 Like the guy in the article says...there's no magic bullet. You just gotta do it over and over and over and over and over and over... Take whatever simple song they're using to teach you with (ie. Wild Thing), download it, and play over along with it. You gotta play with the song at first. It'll focus you on keeping beat. Here's an important lesson with regards to chord changes: It's more important to keep the rythem than it is to hit the right notes. Sure, hitting a bad note can sound horrible....but it sounds 100X worse to miss the beat. Once you can switch reasonably well (on beat and without looking at your fingers)...then you can polish up the rest.
06/01/06 @ 11:39
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Good luck! I hope the article helps. 
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