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Originally Posted by Unit
Hey Everyone,
I've been playing guitar for 2 months now and I'm practising simple songs, and some of Kirk's simpler finger picking songs... but I've noticed that I find myself having to always slow down my playing to a really slow pace 'cuz I can never switch chords easily and quickly enough. I come from the piano  I played that a lot - are there any piano players with some advice? or just anyone?
Thanks 
~Matt |
Try this exercise: Choose two or three chords. Say, start with G, D and C. Switch between them without regard to any rhythm or strumming pattern. Just simple down strokes. But don't play the downstrokes until you're sure that you have formed and are playing the chord cleanly. Start slow, work up some speed. Don't go any faster at all until you have formed the chord and are playing cleanly. Work up speed in switching. Get to where you can switch quickly.
But never advance in speed unless you play the chord cleanly!
Like Wayne says, it's all muscle memory and it takes time. Before you know it, you'll have no trouble switching chords in time with the songs you're learning, and you'll even find that it's easy because you learned to switch between them much faster than any song.
Now choose three other chords and begin again.
Have fun!
Steve