How do I transist from one chord to another withoutpausing on an acoustic guitar?
Practice, practice, practice. It has to be muscle memory before it gets smooth which means you’ll have to do it about 1,000 times! I do have to say that when I watched my guitar teacher play something very smoothly I noticed that he didn’t pick up all of his fingers at once. He left one finger on one of the strings so atleast one note of the chord continued while he transitioned to another one. Now I don’t know that it is proper technique but it worked as far as there not being any silence between the chords. I would try that once or twice but still practice the right way which is just to switch really quickly. I know your frustration! Switching from a G to a C isn’t easy because you do have to make what feels like pretty big jumps to get there. I found that if I started one of my warm ups with just cycling between G, C, and D I eventually got those transitions down. And they are very common chords so there is no way you’re wasting your time, you’re building a foundation to learn more!
