This is a great video. The lead finger is a good trick. I have been slow at changing chords for a while now but just practicing with this technique for a few hours really helped. I also like the suggestion of completely taking your hand off as you move the next chord otherwise you end up learning moving from one chord to the next vs. learning how to create the chord shape. I love the approach you take to your channel. Lots of great information without showing off coupled with a lot of humor. It makes it a really fun place to learn. Thanks for your efforts here.
It's amazing how when searching for chord change speed videos they are super long and mostly do not tell all, like most will try to sell you their courses before doing what the title says. Great video, short, useful, very well explained.
Omg thanks for those awesome tips! Especially the tip to keep strumming and not stopping which will decrease the awkward silent pauses in the song and also buy time been chord switching. I'm gonna try this. Also gonna try having a lead finger and putting it down first to create the chord. I have my 1st beginners recital on Sunday and I'm still pausing awkwardly between chords.
I just stumbled across your strumming 101 video. Well done. I think my days of following Rick Beato very closely are coming to a close. I need to stop learning so much about demonetization and blocking and start learning some usable tips on strumming and chord changes. Thanks!!!
A Berkeley instructor teaches that in order to learn a new chord grip, press down hard on the strings while holding the chord for as long as you can. Do this a couple of times and you get muscle memory for the chord very quickly. It works!
Thanks a lot for your lessons sir....I have been struggling with the strumming and now am feeling lucky that I saw your videos....In just an half an hour my strumming has started sound good...Keep Doing the great work man...Love from India
Always been a martyschwartz bumboy cos he essentially taught me everything. Not til now have i found anyone else actually helpful for myself. You're a belter
Hi Sean, I've been through almost all your videos and I must say that I have not learned so much from any other source. It's very clear, to the point and makes a lot of sense. For someone lacking talent as much as I am, it has been a great help. Thanks, cheers, Franck
Thanks so much! I've been playing for a couple months and this is exactly what I've been struggling with, especially going from G to C. It's funny that you mention the disconjointed way of practicing out of time, as that's pretty much how I've been trying to get it. This video was very helpful, I'll be sure to apply these tips to my own practice. Thank you!!
very good tips , I've played in bands for years as just main vocal , made many records and played all over the world & finally after all these years , started to learn guitar , very grateful for your lessons on here the advice , is excellent it's really good and helpful, it's funny starting right at the beginning again , but really enjoin the challenge .
@@seandaniel23 thanks I'm improving all the time , want to get out and play on my own , I cave a catalog of over 70 songs I've released , so lots of reasons to succeed at this , thanks for the vids it's great and very helpful cheers t cheers.
This is very smart. Get to the psychology of it... I guess it's called. These are my favorite things.... Those super small, everyday situations when your missing the first step so whatever else happens after just doesn't fit right. When u hear it that missing piece it all just pulls right together. Its like the root note of thinking. Lol. When u know it, things everywhere line up and the whole picture is much clearer. Thanks.
There are so, so many instructional videos for guitar out there online, however yours are the best - by a mile. Possibly even a nautical one. Thank you so much for making them - please create more videos geared toward beginners. You see, beginners always need to watch the same video several times in a row in order to grasp instruction contained therein, thus increasing your "video watched" counts. (*selfishly hoping you fall for this ruse*)
Wow thanks so much Mark! And thank you for the feedback, I think starting at some point next month I'm going to try and do a few more beginner ones so stay tuned!
Another thing that works for me is just sitting on a transition over and over. Like, it's tempting to try to play through a song if most of the chord progression sounds good, but it's best to focus the practice time on that one chord switch that isn't working. I still am significantly slower getting into the top of the neck D than I am at getting into practically any other type of chord, but by focusing just on the transitions between different chords and D I'm getting better at it.
i'm quite happy with ur video cuz i actually got what u wanted to explain.....my bruh says i've got thin finger n i'm a fast learner....so i guess i kinda got it ......thank ya lots.........love ya...
Yes! Great lesson - I really enjoy your videos and they have really helped me but this video, in particular helped me put into words what I've been doing - and you picked the G to Bm transition. I've tried to explain the "don't stop strumming" piece - your explanation is perfect. This is how you avoid that stilted sound of changing chords so often seen. Thanks so much for putting this one together. Super useful. I've been subscribed for while and just keep finding more of these gems. Awesome stuff - please keep it up.
What works for me is this. Learn how to set each chord correctly in one fluent movement, rather than leading with 1 finger followed by the rest. Learn how to do this for each chord individually. Then start putting chords after each other at an extreeeeemely slow tempo. If you do a chord progression 10 times extremely slow, it will start to feel easier and you will automatically speed up quickly afterwards, but this will only work if you place each chord correctly at slow tempo.
I trained myself to change from cord to cord faster by... let me explain, so say I'm playing a G cord, and in the song I want to go from G to a D cord, instead of just doing that, I'd switch to let's say a C position, but not playing the cord, I'd quickly go to the D cord, and then play. Maybe for beginners this isn't the best way to start, but it got me very fluent. You're basically training your brain to work twice as fast then it needs to, it's also a handly trick to learn if you accidently go to the wrong cord when playing a song, you can stop yourself and quickly switch to the right cord, without any mistakes. This might sound complicated, but try it on the guitar, it's a lot easier than you think, and trust me it will help a lot!
Those are all the things that I exactly do, although unaware of it, only by practice, but watching this video I realized that those are all the tricks that I do.
Super helpful. As a beginner I am always stopping the strumming hand until I can make the chord and then the chord, usually, looks and sounds like shite... nevermore
Of course if you want to move all the finger at the same times it is more difficult but at the end it is necessary to change them at the same times as much as possible.
Hey, Sean. When you said FORGET TRADITIONAL VOICINGS, what you meant is Forget Traditional FINGERINGS. The beginner's folk guitar books say to play that G chord with your middle finger on the bass note. Experienced players learn the version with the ring finger on the bass note which you show @4:13. This is the same voicing of the chord with a more efficient, useful fingering. I find the most helpful thing for quick chord changes is to AVOID THE DEATH GRIP. Beginners tend to really press hard to avoid buzzing, but the lightest possible touch will make chord changes quicker and easier. Trust me on this - I play unamplified guitar in a big band with no microphone and high stiff action (looks like you could put a pencil under my strings). I use a extra heavy gauge custom set of strings .014 .018 .029w .039 .049 .062. If I used a Death Grip, I couldn't change chords fast and I wouldn't last one set. - Keep the fine lessons coming!
oh my gawd you are so funny...smart and funny! I love your hippy comment in your intervals video! thanks for the vids and keeping it light and easy. The instruction of playing open between chord changes was awesome!
The keep strumming part is a gem. I guess going from G to C is a pain for everybody bc that's what I'm stuck on. I get it in time 1 out of 10 times and an even trying to close my eyes and do it so I can remember the shape. I'll get it though. Only been playing a week and a half
From playing strictly on acoustic for 1+ years, I went to the music store and gauged myself on electric guitar. I was able to transition from open to barre pretty fluidly on the electric, so i know im close on acoustic...and the i found this video. I like your advise on keeping your stumming hand going no matter what...even if i have to take a aecond or two to form the barre. Thanks
yeah endlich!!!! I know it all the time, that it is better to form the chord from the root note and then the others instead of forming it all together at one time. Thanks!
