Working On How To Change Guitar Chords

How to change guitar chords is an area of guitar playing that you will be returning to again and again. It’s an area that needs a lot of experimenting, learning from your mistakes and allowing muscle memory to learn the chords in its own time. One approach you could try is to learn a new chord by using it as a central point to go to from all the other chords you know. So if you want to learn the B major chord, get your fingers into the chord position and strum the chord for a while. Then, take your fingers off the fretboard and rest them completely for a few seconds before assuming the chord shape again. Do this a couple of times to give your left hand the chance to know what the chord position feels like. Now, select a chord that you know well – it doesn’t have to be one that sounds good with B major – and play that chord, then change to the new chord. Then select another chord and go from that chord to the new one. The idea is to give your muscles as many challenges as possible by taking the new chord shape from a variety of other finger positions. This is a faster way of learning a new chord shape.

This video gives away one of the “secrets” of changing chords. This is the simple trick of getting one finger in place and allowing the others to follow instead of using our minds to place all the fingers in a new chord shape.