Practice is the key

I know so many people who have tried, tried and tried again to play guitar and the story of those that fail is always the same. "It is just too Hard" it is not guitar that is hard it is discipline that is hard. In our modern society you can be a social critic with a library computer and a basic understanding of how to write which school gives you by grade 8 LOL. Look at all those social critic blogs LOL

To Play guitar infront of others requires accuracy and knowledge. Not an easy thing to gain but a very rewarding boon if you put the time in.

To start this journey I will say only this. Play your chords in random order over and over again never repeat a pattern too often and work on making those transitions smooth.

Some examples:

C A G E - Play each chord to a rhythm then change chords and repeat the rhythm.
E D G E - Play each chord to a rhythm then change chords and repeat the rhythm.
G E F D A B Play each chord to a rhythm then change chords and repeat the rhythm.
Then reverse each and and repeat
Make up your own combo's too! See how they sound :-)

Make each chord sound on all strings then move to the next. Make up your own as well!  the goal is not to stay in Key, but to build the muscle memory to allow your transitions to happen quickly and accurately

Here are the standard Open chords for you!

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Do this exercise with Open Chords then with Bar chords both 5 string and 6 string Bar chords :-)

Sound like alot of work?

Not really :-) only about 8 minutes to play each chord from all patterns 5 times. maybe 20 minutes if you are new to playing guitar....  Go for it, make it a daily ritual :-)

My recommendation is spend 30 minutes practicing to start and work yourself up from there 1 hour should be the minimum if you intend to be a performing musician. I recently joined my first Band and we practice for 3 - 4 hours at a time ouch that is hard on the fingers LOL