TOP 3 EXERCISES For Faster Chord Changes in 1 Month

TOP 3 EXERCISES For Faster Chord Change in 1 Month - ✅ Grab Lauren's FREE Guitar Crash Course with PDFs: www.laurenbateman.com/crashcourse - You want to get faster chord changes, but you feel like your fretting hand is holding you back. Smooth chord changes are a very common problem for many beginner guitar players. It's why I focus a lot on finger dexterity in my courses. It's one of the most important fundamentals that a beginner guitar player can develop. In this guitar lesson, I'm going to go over my TOP 3 tips for getting faster chords changes over the course of the next month.
⏱ How To Get Faster Chord Change Chapters: ⏱
0:00 - Intro & Most Important Fundamental
2:00 - Traditional Exercise
5:03 - Chord Stretching Tip
5:26 - Common Chord Problem
6:04 - Chord Drill Exercise
7:37 - My Secret Weapon
8:14 - Speed VS Clarity
11:45 - Muscle Memory Exercise
15:12 - Check This Out!
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I got in touch with music instruments when l was younger because of my brother who use too playing me guitar to get me to sleep.years later l came to know couple of fingers riffs that l play with french song melody but l didn't know to read notes or writings solfège.growing up l bought guitars and still didn't learn more just picking up once in while.and suddenly out of nowhere that l am much older we feel little younger retired and hearing some nostalgia from 60 70.came back l bought an other guitar and books again and l pay more attention than l used to be.and watching videos l think I m exactly doing what you're showing in this video and am glad to find some experienced person to get some lessons from. l 'll keep watching thank you a lot teacher .

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I never realized until now how much a metronome helps with this, thanks Lauren

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These are excellent exercises! Thanks a mil, Lauren!!

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Hey! Great tips, definitely gonna start doing these exercises!

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I will start by doing the push ups tho to master the chords grab and will do the dexterity exercise with the first 3 frets from now on

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Great tips to get these old arthritic fingers moving faster! Your pentatonic scale exercises have helped me too!

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That's great Stoo! Keep those fingers moving.

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Thank you for watching! Yes, that is a common issue. Please watching kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqTHZWuCqpKZgNU

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Excellent coaching and great tip "Speed will sacrifice clarity". Such a great point.

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This has helped my speed .Great lesson Lauren 😊

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Got my stretches, and my reps in today, despite being super tired, because of this new video. Thanks so much for the mid-week motivation 🙂

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Lauren - very helpful exercises. I will add these to my warmup routine and will practice the muscle memory exercise while watching tv at night.

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Thanks Lauren I needed this. Changing chords has certainly been my biggest problem so far. That and hitting the wrong strings doh.

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It's most student's problem in the beginning. You are not alone!

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Brilliant lesson. Excited to start these drills. Thousands of seizures have changed my playing ability extremely...some days are betta than othas. This will help so much! Thanks Lauren for your time! 😀

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Glad it was helpful!

[@DJBartlett66]

Started learning just 2 years ago and can play a few songs through but Dm to Am is the hardest change for me so these are the two chords I’m working on. 3 days of this and I can already able to change faster. I can’t wait to see how much I improve after a month! Plus the spider exercise is so fun that any free moment I have I’m goofing around with it! I had no warmup routine before, but see such value in this. Thank you, Lauren.

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Hey ! I love these. I did lessons for a year and half and pretty much all we did was learn songs by tab. Life got in the way and became a dreaded dabbler... Great guy and I would go back but these basics are essential in building new neural pathways. Guitar can be for therapeutic for anything I believe. Thanks for a great lesson.

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Brad, you're so welcome. Sometimes focusing on the basics is what you need.

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Lauren, this is excellent instruction. Particularly helpful for me is the emphasis you put on using a metronome to push myself outside my comfort zone and giving me “permission “ to have sloppy sounding chords while I’m working on speed exercises. Thank you for this really great channel.

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The advice in this video is priceless and should be obligatory for all beginners! I started learning guitar in my mid 60s and did the spider exercises and 1 minute chord changes but would have much preferred the 3 finger spiders as I found it a huge stretch to get my pinky down hard enough to play a clear note, hence it took ages to work up to the top fret! Will be trying the 3 finger spider tomorrow though as older joints need good warm up exercises! Thanks for a great video, Bob.

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Thank you! Glad it was helpful!

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Hi Mary, that's very kind of you. I am a big fan of being myself. 😊 So happy you found the video helpful. Keep up the good work practicing.

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A super video for someone like me who is a rank beginner. Thanks so much

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Glad to help Darryl.

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Really great to hear that! I'm glad that it was helpful :D Keep on practicing and I know that you will get it :)

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Very helpful lesson and tips Lauren. I just turned 66 but have multiple sclerosis and numbness in my left and right hand. This repetitive drill/lesson is helping me make progress 👍🎶💯

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Thanks Lauren, struggling with chord changes. I’m in that’grey’ group!

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This video I feel is going to get me out of the rut I've been regards to progressing. The finger pushups and emphasis on muscle memory is helping immensely in getting faster chord changes. I can tell the difference within two days practicing. Thank you Lauren!

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You are so welcome. Sometimes it’s the small things that make the biggest difference.

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Absolute. Everyone should stretch before any activity. I found that I had to slow down to get faster. Then get faster until it gets twisted. Reapply as needed

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Yep, a good mixture of slow and fast.

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Thanks Lauren, I started with you a year ago and had no arthritis issues. I thought to myself how lucky I was. Well all that has changed for me now, it has mysteriously appeared in both hands now…all that to thanks for the refresher-using the metronome, finger push-ups and spider exercises.

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You're welcome Jim!

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I found that I can also use the pivot point (2nd) finger to make the A major, just move the 1st finger to the G string and drop the 3rd finger on the B. all three in the 2nd fret. You can make the E minor, C , G and A during chord change practice.

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Rock on!

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Loved the Bruce Lee quote. These tips are really really helpful.

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One of my favorite quotes. :)

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I can't believe I reached 80 bps with most of the chords transitions (G, Em, D, C) 2 months after watching this video and joining your 7 level course. I keep on being grateful I have found your name and course on Google after so many other courses I joined with no success

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That's awesome! I'm really glad the lessons were helpful. Thanks so much for your support :D

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Good job

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@Lauren Bateman when playing a song and your making a chord change should you raise or take all your fingers off the the guitar strings if you don't have to?

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I'm currently working on a chord melody arrangement of Stardust (from a book) and I think these suggestions will help. Thanks.

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Awesome!!!

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Scarey good lesson.

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[@stephanknupp5830]

Very good exercise Lauren. Good is also the search for "Guide Notes". These are Notes on the same string but different fret. For example for a change of the chords E to D, you just slide with your index finger from the first fret to first to the third fret without lifting the index finger . The other fingers will then follow to form a D chord. Cheers Stephan

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Just started at age 44. You gave me perfect tools to start! Thank you!

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Good morning, Lauren, I really appreciate and enjoy your teaching methods, which are really easy to follow. I am a senior citizen and I am interested in joining the " Fellowship of Strings" but I am living on a fixed income. I would love to be part of it , but cannot do it until beginning of May

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No rush, The community will be there when you are ready.

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Think I mentioned this before when you spoke about the Em chord in another video. I play it 2nd and 3rd but I can see your point in playing 1st and 2nd as you can move to the G chord easier, as you demonstrated. Even though I play Em with 2nd and 3rd fingers, I can also play with 1st and 2nd fingers so I've been trying it out. At the moment I'm not playing a full G only a G6 two finger chord when I move from Em to G. However I still feel like I'm getting somewhere (slowly I have to admit) and it's definitely down to you not pushing to do a full G or C or any other difficult chords.

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Yeah, there's usually more than one way to play certain chords. Have to find what works best for you and your hand

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I'm just starting out and I'm resting the neck against my left hand just below where the fingers join the palm when doing these 4 chords. I can see a small space between the neck and your hand in the video. What should I do? Should I rest the neck on my hand until I develop greater dexterity or would that develop a bad habit? I can't make a C chord without resting the neck on my hand. Thanks!

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Watch this video. This should help a lot: kzbin.info/www/bejne/favUo3eoraqgfdksi=xhRYDdRwHIvsfWmc

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@@LaurenBateman I'm getting better -- and have had a big reduction in times I'm muting the high E string!! Progress!!

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Excellent session as always Lauren. Question....do you actually use the metronome your self when you are practicing?

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I do!!

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That's an absolutely beautiful guitar

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I'm kind of addicted to watching these kind of videos. Even if I'm comfortable with the task it's good to hear another perspective. Do you have any ideas to reduce string noise as you are moving up and down the braided strings?

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The round wounds. That's a common issue with those. Really no way around it. Mine make noise too. Especially when skin starts coming off the calluses.

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Is it normal for my hand and some of my wrist/forearm to feel sore right after doing the spider?? Not sure if it’s happening because I’m doing something new with my hands or my hand placement is off

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No, you should not have pain. This can be caused by bad posture or even excess tension.

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I lost hope with the three fingers it's a hard way to learn. You gave me hope with two fingers thank you.

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Yes, start with the two fingers and work your way to the three fingers chords.

[@FilmFlam]

Really like the finger pushup concept. Also, the Bruce Lee reference.

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I grew up with martial arts so it has a place in my heart. Love Bruce Lee.

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@@LaurenBateman Me too.