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I admire your persistence on the full barres, and you are definitely waaaay ahead of me. I also struggle with transitions, but I am continuing to practice a variety of chords I have memorized — pretty much every practice session to try to help with my transitions, and that’s the real key to transitions from what I see.
I do resort to the minis just to be able to play some lessons all the way through when I can’t get the full barre to work, plus a bunch of the full barres give me some major cramping in my wrist and hand if I play them too long.
I am definitely a slow-poke on the lessons most of the time — not playing anywhere near the speeds indicated for the tab, but I figure if I can make it through the lesson (at any speed I can manage) is a “win” for me, and I can play some of the material faster than when I started a few months ago.
As long as we are sticking with practice and learning a little bit at a time — we are definitely “winning” in the long run! 😊