Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ballr1213]

I am having a LOT of trouble switching chords fast any tips??

[drivingburnt]

Hey -- welcome to the club. About the only thing that will help is practice practice practice. Mix it up with doing some fun things and you'd be surprised how fast time goes. Good Luck :D

[Kevin Taylor]

Practice practice practice.
Think in terms of it taking months to get better, not days.

[Bazaa]

I just got my hands on a video lesson from Zakk Wylde - when he was learning he would practice scales and such every minute he was not at school, eating or sleeping. Even now that he enjoy's the status of "Guitar God", he still practices 2 - 5 hours a day with a metronome!

Practice, Practice, Practice.

Bazaa

[Grambo]

An hour a day for 12 months and you'll suss it

[bobzta]

The main thing is to sound each string of the chord until they sound clearly (unmuffled) then practice changing from one chord to another. Dont rush it or youll end up being fast but sloppy. I read somewhere that it takes around 5000 hours to get good on the guitar, and so I started counting. Youll get there too if you start counting the hours up to 5000.

[Akira]

I read somewhere that it takes around 5000 hours to get good on the guitar, and so I started counting. Youll get there too if you start counting the hours up to 5000.

How does that work? Surely everyone is unique in their ability to learn. Surely there are too many variables affecting how many hours it takes to get good on the guitar, and to add to that, everyone has different definitions of the word "good".

Haha, didn't mean to come down on that so hard, just thought i'd have a pickle. :p

[equator]

Nobody can help you on that one. It comes down to how hard you practice.
The only advise I can give you is play a chord cleanly and then you have to anticipate the chord that you are changing to. Visualizing in your head the shape of that chord, and the fingering you are going to use.

[Toastless]

I'm in the same stage right now, gradually getting better, only had my guitar a month and its been learning soley from websites. The easiest way I've managed to get used to it is simplifying the other end as much as possible, as in just slowly strumming down strokes, gradually when you pick up speed you can swap to more interesting strumming patterns, well I hope I can :)

[Timothy Price]

Hey, this is a great forum, thanks for letting me join-

This is what I was taught on switching chords, hope this helps.

One sure fire way to get better at switching chords is to monitor your progress.

How?

1, Get a metronome.
2, Take three chords that you're having trouble switching. Without the metronome continue to switch these chords. Over and over and over.
(sometimes some TV time practicing will ease the boredom of this, as it will for a lot of muscle memory practice)
3, When you are comfortable playing those three chords, set the metronome to 4/4 time at about 50 BPM (that's pretty slow) and concentrate on hitting each cord on the 1 of every measure.
4, Continue to slowly speed up the metronome until you reach you're desired
speed.

This definitely works, you must practice and be patient. A lot of people shy away from the metronome at first, thinking it's probably not that important.
But the best of the best work with a metronome consistantly in all their practice. It will also speed up (no pun intended) your progress!

Good Luck!

Tim

[slimba]

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[elklandercc]

hey theres this guy on the net that can teach you your bass fretboard in 45 mins try it out it my help. they also sell a package called fret2bass check out ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Learn-Entire-Bass-Guitar-Fretboard-in-Only-45-Minutes_W0QQitemZ7357813056QQcategoryZ4713QQcmdZViewItem
I would advise against it. It doesn't improve your playing at all.

[breakthesilenc2]

Just try bicking up you fingers and ptting them down on the neck in the chords shape until you can do it right