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Changing Chords

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Changing Chords While at this point I have a few different chords I can play, most songs that arent drone metal or Indian classical ragas use more than one chord, meaning that its important to be able to change chords, preferably in time with the song.  Changing chords isnt easy at first, and its really one of those things you only learn through repetition. Your fingers are making a weird shape they dont normally need to make, and until youve done this enough times its hard to contort your muscle to the needed shape quickly enough. Over time the shapes of the chords, and the motion of changing between them becomes muscle memory, and at that point theres literally nothing too it. The first chord change I worked on was A:   To E:   This is a pretty easy chord change, move your first finger back a fret, and move the 2nd and 3rd up a fret. Its pretty easy, but even then it feels weird. You get the feeling that your first finger wants to go up along with the 2nd and 3rd, and y...