Way to Practice Ordinary and Bar Chors

[Kutay Kerimoğlu]

Hey guys, I’ve been playing guitar on and off for several years, and been using this site for the last 2-3 weeks, can really say I’ve been finding it helpful. One thing I think I’m lacking (and couldn’t find much info about) is the way to practice the transition between bar and ordinary chords. I kinda can’t play lots of acoustic songs I like because I lack this. I wonder since there are dozens of them, how do you decide on which ones to pick when you practice, is here a general pattern I don’t know etc. Thank you for your time

 

[idssdi]

Most pop music music has a pattern(usually a II-V-I progression i think) How I practice transition to chords is by playing songs. Usuallyes there is a way to play it mostly in the same position(it is a Caged thing)

 

[Ana Psuturi]

I had that problem too, when I just started. If a song had a transition for example from F to G, I was dwelling on that part for a while. The way I solved it – is first I used to ractice the transition part slowly, where I was comfortable with a chord change and after a while played it in a normal speed, hope it helps.

 

[Matt Wildman]

Yea Ana nailed it. Just lots of practice and it will come over time

 

[John Robinson]

I have an ipod with a guitar tuner app,it has games to help with speed and transition,its not going to make you syn fast but it helps

 

[Kutay Kerimoğlu]

May I ask the name of the app? I hope it’s also on Android haha

 

[John Robinson]

The name of the app is guitar tuna