Originally Posted by: mcchuck47Thank you. I am playing the simple version of can't always get what you want, I do have the motivation too move on, I can make and play the chords , F and B7, it's moving between F and C, B7 and A. I want too move on, but when I come back too it later, it's starting all over again. Thank you for your help. I will master it in time.
Sorry if I'm repeating this for some but; go slowly. Not up to speed. When you feel difficulty going between chords, you're just not comfortable enough with the changes.
Obvious? Sure.
I've been playing since 81/82 and I can hold my own. I also have things that I need to practice. Riffs that I want to improve upon. Even seemingly simple riffs.
The singular most important tool is to slow it down. It may seem almost like drudgery to do chord changes really slow but you're trying to become comfortable with the movement. Slowing down will do that for you.
You're trying to train your fingers to do somnething they've never done before.
My wife is getting her first guitar lesson today (not from me...a good objective teacher makes sense for her). However, she grabbed her guitar and tried to do a chord I was showing her. She was struggling. She's never played before, really. She was all like 'I'm terrible and I'll never be able to do it.' It was pretty much her first time trying!!!!
I said to her; do you think the first time Patriots QB threw a football, that is was a perfect throw? (points to her; she replied 'Was the ball deflated or not?' If you're American, that was comedy gold!) Still, she got the point. For whatever reason, people think that they should progress more quickly and be more natural than is actually normal.
Take your time and get the changes as a slow speed. Don't be in too much of a hurry to play the song up to speed.Get the raw tools and then move on.
Remember, I've been playing for decades and I regularly do it.
