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Leading with the Index to the Bm Chord
The first time a saw the “Quinoa Quickness” lesson, I was excited by the wonderful suggestion to lead with my index finger when I go to a Bm chord. I was trying to play a song in fingerstyle where I had to move from a D major chord to a Bm chord and I had to hit that bass string (B note on the A string).
Turns out, I couldn’t do that no matter what I did. Speed made no difference. I simply didn’t have the finger independence to do what Tony does so easily.
The next time I saw the Quinoa Quickness lesson, I was reminded of this neat trick, and decided to try again. I was still trying to play the same song and I had gotten much faster at moving from the D to the Bm. Unfortunately, a pretty significant percentage of the time, the Bm was not clean. Lo and behold, I was able to make the chord after moving my index finger because I had done finger exercises that gave me better finger independence. However, I couldn’t do it easily enough to ever be able to do it in a song. One more time, I put this on the shelf.
Yesterday was the 3rd time I saw the Quinoa Quickness lesson and I tried again. It took some really effort playing the video on slow speed and stopping/rewinding to understand how Tony’s hand was moving before I could do it cleanly and easily. But I did, in fact, start moving to the Bm chord by leading with my index finger and placing the other fingers right behind it so I could do it fast enough to play a song. In fact, way faster than I would probably ever use it in a song.
This type of improvement in my guitar skills literally feels like magic to me. I was sure I would never be able to do this. And this is not the first time I have gained the ability to do something I previously thought would be impossible. Way Cool! 😋
MG 😀
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