BC-129 • Stage 2 Practice Schedule

Hey all! I am looking for some feedback basically. The one minute changes exercise is just flippin brilliant. It advanced my chord changes and I saw loads of improvement so I added a few other open chords. I, however, found that going as fast as I could I was crunching chords. I understand the purpose of the exercise is to build up muscle memory, and perhaps I am being impatient, but I found even as I approached the magic number of 60/30 chord changes in a minute I was still crunching a lot of my chords. I came up with a possible solution. I would like some thoughts. I set my metronome at, oh say, 45BPM, and switch between the chords over a minute. Once the minute it up if I haven't crunched any chords between the changes I up the tempo with the initial goal being to 60BPM. My question is do you think this would be acceptable to continue or should I go back to the one minute changes as fast as I can and not worry about crunching the chords. An aside for a second I have found that the one minute changes has had the unforeseen benefit of speeding up the typing of my left hand.