Hello All,
As a beginner, this forum has been a tremendous help as I attempt to learn so thanks to everyone who takes the time to provide advice to us rookies.
One problem I’ve been running into lately is the ability to play and transition between chop chords without errant noise when attempting to play at normal bluegrass tempos. I can make all the chord shapes cleanly now - it seems to be more with my right hand and rhythm as well as switching fast enough (ie. not getting all fingers down for the next chord in time before my right hand is ringing out an open string that takes away from the steady/consistent chop sound that all great players have.)
Any tips on how to improve in this department? I tried doing rhythm exercises like pick G string on 1 then chop on 2 to get the “boom-chuck” type sound and can do that in isolation but when I try to play a tune it almost feels like all rhythm goes out the window haha. I can get the steady chop sound at Bluegrass speeds but I pick up those open strings occasionally. Did anyone here encounter a similar problem in their journey? I saw playing slower is the general advice to play cleaner so maybe its just staying the course in that department and practicing switching chords over and over?
Thanks!
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