Originally Posted by: DraconusJLMCareful practice is the key to getting the hang of chords and chord changes.
Pay close attention to the angle of your fingers, especially from the tips to the first knuckle, as this is one of the main causes of muted adjacent strings (but, as you progress, you will start to learn techniques where strings are deliberately muted).
Pressing too hard on the strings is another common cause of "fat finger" problems, as this causes the fingertips to spread outwards (it also slows your movements and makes playing physically tiring).
I definately found last night the pressing down too hard thing, especially with my 1st finger!
I also experimented around with holding the guitar, Strat in my case, I found that shortening the strap and angeling the neck more upwards gave my wrist a better angle. From several things I have read / listend to so far I think there is a lot of merrit in the thought of working things through, experiment, figure out if something else works better, then continue!
