How To Make Fast, Smooth, Perfect Chord Changes On Guitar

by Simon Candy

In this video, you learn how to make fast chord changes on guitar.

Most instructional material on this topic tells you to keep practicing changing between chord shapes and you will become faster.

In part this is true, however it is how you practice your chord changes that will determine how fast you are at changing between them.

In this lesson, you learn 3 highly effective strategies for making fast and perfect chord changes on guitar.

• Chord Change Strategy 1: Individual Finger Focus

The first strategy shows you how to give each finger your undivided attention so you can train it, in isolation, to move efficiently from one chord to the next.

• Chord Change Strategy 2: Finger Snap Down

This strategy deals with training your fingers to fall onto the shape of the chord at the same time. This is crucial if you are to make fast chord changes.

• Chord Change Strategy 3: Commonalities 

The final strategy deals with the common fingers and formations that chord shapes share. Some of these are obvious, however many aren’t.

All 3 strategies combine to make it easy and effortless for you to make perfect, fast, and smooth chord changes on guitar.

Watch the video below to learn more:

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