How to play static dominant and functional dominant chords?

How to play guitar with chords?

• For my music class i have to learn how to play the swedish song "Du får göra som du vill", and i know the chords adn everything. I just have a problem when i'm trying to shift chords, i always stumble and it takes such a long time for me to just shift between the AM and G chords. Does anyone have any tips on how to be quicker? :)

• Answer:

  Practice, practice practice. Going from Am to G you just have to think about what fingers need to move where. For the Am you'd have your index finger on the first fret of the B string, your ring finger on the 2nd fret of the G string, and your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the D string. To get from that to the G chord you just put your pinky on the 3rd fret of the E string, lift the index finger (don't need that one), move your middle finger up to the 2nd fret of the A string, and your ring finger goes up to the 3rd fret of the low E string. Just practice with the left hand (no strumming) going back and forth between those chords over and over again. That's the only way you're going to get smooth at it. It takes time but once your fingers get used to moving independently and landing on the right strings and frets you'll be amazed how easy it seems (you won't even think about it really). FWIW, there are a lot of finger exercises designed to develop independent motion of the fingers and get them used to the strings and fretboard. Just jumping into learning chords is not necessarily the best or most efficient way to learn to play guitar (but I understand you're doing this for music class).