I'm fairly new to teaching guitar, although I've been playing for awhile and I'm a good player (I'm mostly self taught myself). One problem that I have is teaching new students how to get better at moving between chords.
What I try to get them to do from the early lessons is usually to play the open G chord on just 3 strings by fretting the G on the 3rd fret of the E string and strum the 3 strings. Then do the same for the C chord and only using one finger (for the 1st fret of the 2nd string). Then after a few weeks of doing that and switching between these 2 simple chords, I move to doing fuller chord shapes. This seems to work somewhat but not all the time.
Some of my students seem to get it fairly well but others have a much harder time. Of course I know that not everyone simply practices what I tell them but I was wondering if other teachers here used a different approach that works good for them?
Thanks for any help.
