My main weakness when playing guitar is that I really struggle to change chords fluently. I just can't seem to get my fingers in the right place and then I get so flustered I lose my place. I think this is because I haven't set enough time aside to practice regularly, however since composing my song and finishing my other modules I have had a lot more time to practice. Through practicing four simple chords - C, D, Em and G, (which I used in my composition), I have been able to gain muscle memory in my fingers and I am getting to a stage where I don't have to look at the strings constantly and I can play without fully concentrating on my exact finger placement, I just subconsciously know where to go! Although I'm a long way off being confident with my guitar playing I am proud of how far I've come since first picking up the instrument. I've enlisted the help of the app 'GuitarTuna' which has a game that teaches you these chords, unfortunately you have to pay to learn more chords and so I'm going to have to self-teach myself some more but for the minute here's me practicing transitioning.
Over summer I aim to learn "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles, which consists of mainly these four chords. I can already play the bar chords to the chorus!
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