Faith, I was just telling my boyfriend today that it's nice to return to music or chords I couldn't dream of before and now I'm actually able to do it. So rewarding!
ddiddler, that is a good idea to use both strategies or schools of thought. I'm finding both to be helpful. I'm also applying that when I am learning a strumming song too...if I'm having trouble with the chord change and keeping rhythm, sometimes I will just worry about keeping rhythm primarily and making the chord changes a secondary thought. Then eventually the chord changes come around (eventually....albeit with very slow pace...).
“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.” Robert Brault, American Operatic Tenor