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Originally Posted by pope04
I started lessons in September and know EXACTLY how the original poster feels. My transitions from chord to chord are still pretty shaky. I try to practice every day, and I feel I'm improving slowly. I used to lay down my chords left to right, but my teacher suggested I start forming my chords top to bottom as this will buy you a split second if you are strumming top to bottom (low E to high E). I agree with an earlier poster, there's lots of help available on youtube. As well, the library is full of guitar books.
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Say you are doing a chord progression D-G-F-E-A and you can't do the F to E but can do the other part of the progression, don't do the D,G and A every time just do F-E over and over repeatedly. It there's a part of a song you can't get practice that part only so you concentrate the time on the parts you can't play so you rapidly accelerate your improvement. A dead note is not a muted note, a dead note is rattly crappy sound that's like a thunk.
If a progression takes 10 seconds to play but you play only two chords over and over and it takes 2 seconds it's 5 times faster improvement. I always messed up F to E for the longest time then spent 30 minutes to fix it, if you play a chord and there are dead notes it's being played wrong. Most people play chords with dead notes and don't pay attention to playing correctly and adjust by adding distortion.