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Hi Loraine,
Well I am definitely not ready for an audience, but like they say all work and no play makes Jonny a dull boy. I personally have no problem running through drills or doing things, but there has to be an end game. Sure its great when I can run through the chord transitions at a faster tempo, but eventually that gets boring…. So switch over from drills, to play (or try to play) a simple (or simplified) 3 or 4 chord song… at the end of the day… I’m still doing the same thing, playing and transitioning chords, but instead of randomly switching between chords, or doing the same chord switches over and over again there is a more fun to it.
C still is giving me issues, but I am improving, and can see the movement.
One of the most surprising things so far was finding out I STRUGGLE more with slow tempo. Metronome at 30-40 bpm and I find I have a hard time getting my body into that groove.. moving to 45 and smoothly moving to next chord just couldn’t get past… Just for fun I actually bumped up to 60, and even though struggled at 40, found I could get all my parts working in sequence better, and actually do better with Transitions, and found, I was suddenly had all kinds of time between the switch and the metronome click for the next strum, even though at 2/3 the speed I would struggle to just get the chord laid down before I was supposed to strum.
I am certainly nowhere near perfect, I still lay a chord down wrong or miss the beat now and again, but always improving.