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  • Bill_Brown

    Member
    July 27, 2021 at 10:03 am

    Hi @RockMobster , @Loraine has given you an excellent suggestion🤩, you can find free metronome apps for your phone. That’s what I use. 👍

    But I have another suggestion that involves an exercise for making chord shapes. For this exercise, place your fretting hand on your knee. Then start counting backwards from 5 to 0. In those 5 seconds, you must move your fretting hand and fret the chord shape properly, then strum on 0. When you strum, it must be a clean sounding chord. Once you’re able to do a clean sounding chord consistently, then you start counting backwards from 3 to 0, same rules apply. Once you’re able to do it within the 3 seconds consistently, then start doing it by counting back from 1 to 0. When you’re able to consistently make that clean sounding chord within 1 second, you’ll have built the muscle memory and coordination for playing that chord from just about any position that your fretting hand is in (including from fretting another chord). This exercise will work for any chord shape, but it requires effort, patience, and practice on your part!