Welcome to the forum Mark.
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Hey Mark, welcome to the forum. The one minute chord changes certainly helped me a lot when I was first starting. Hang in there, the reward is so very good.
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Maybe you should familiarize yourself with Justin’s website and style of teaching. This is the main reason people are here. They are taking lessons from Justin
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Welcome Firebee
R.
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Hi Mark,
Welcome,and I wish you a lot of fun 
Greetings Rogier
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Mark @firebee
Hope that helps and welcome to the community 
See below from another topic, I don’t think you have to join Facebook
Michael
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Hello - if you’ve received that Welcome Email, you’re enrolled in the program. That does not mean you need to enter Facebook to claim the Strumming Foundations course - that’s not written anywhere.
To claim Strumming Foundations,
- You need to have enrolled in the program (and received the email you received)
- Have an active subscription to the app.
Entering the Facebook group is optional, and no one is obliged to do. However, we advertised since the beginning that the Support from Justin and the team in this program would be via Facebook.
I hope this clarifies, but please contact hello@justinguitar.com if you need further assistance.
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Thanks Mat1953.
I’ve already applied for it.
Had I seen the word Facebook initially I’d have probably binned the messages and would have missed out on the strumming course.
Although I’m disappointed about the Facebook thing, at least I’ll be able to benefit from the course.
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Welcome to the community from one Mark to another!! 
Best of luck with your learning this time around, definitely focus on those one minute change for the chord changes. Are you making use of the tempo adjustment in the app? That can really help as you build your speed.
Have fun!
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Welcome to the forum Mark 
Your sound will clean up as you practice and develop more so just stick with it. There are so many ‘little things’ that you learn along the way which all add up to that ‘tidy’ sound.
Good luck, have fun!
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Hello Mark and welcome to our community. 
Remember, you can always post videos of your playing to get great advice from others on here, who have no doubt struggled with the same issues you are having. Stick with it though you will get there.
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Hi Mark, I’m 3.5 weeks into module 1 having tried quite a few years ago without a good structure to follow. I too don’t have clean changes but I’m told, from the community, that practice will deliver in time and not to put pressure on myself. So good luck with the journey, you’ll be brilliant, just stick at it.
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Hi Mark,
welcome to the forum! It is a very nice and supportive place to be. I have good memories of Norfolk, having sailed on the Broads once.
I am not too familiar with all the different modules here, but as most of us here I have had to deal with the challenge to get the chord changes right. I found it was important for me to learn not to look at the fretboard at all.
If I mess up chord changes I practice the chord changes in the pitch dark daily, and let my muscle memory take over. I would use the metronome. (Alternatively play standing upright, because then you cant see the fretboard either and your fingers just need to land in their proper place as well.)
I guess the best thing is to practice first on the easy ones that you are comfortable with, and then on the tricky ones in pairs. From then on you could work on entire chord sequences.
I wish you good luck and speedy progress
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Hello Mark - hopefully it will be second time luck for you.
My advice for this time through is to take your time, be steady in your progress, consolidate all of the skills a lot and learn songs, learn songs, learn songs.
Good luck with it all and you can count on a supportive and helpful crowd to help out here in the community if you need it.
Cheers
Richard
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Hi Mark, and welcome! Enjoy your little improvements because they’ll lead you further than you can expect! And my advice is also to share them here, as we are all very supportive and like when the good vibes are shared…even when stuff sounds rough…there are many people here always giving good suggestions and advice…with the right practice we all can improve! 
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Hi Mark
Great to see you starting again. Have patience and take your time, its not a race. Some good advice offered already but I’d echo practice chords slowly to get them ringing out clearly and then supporting that with the One Minute Changes and as I see someone may have mentioned, learning songs. Keep it simple keep it slow and you’ll be surprised with the progress. But don’t forget you have plenty of folks here, who have followed Justin’s pathway and able to offer sound and advice and support.
Cheers
Toby
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Mark, welcome to the community. I think Justin made Module 8 and little more challenging on purpose so don’t get discouraged. I thought that some of the later modules in Grade 2 were easier.
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@ReneAsologuitar Rene, If you have only looked at the Justin Guitar classic (or original) guitar course, you may have seen the curriculum organized into stages with 3 stages in each grade. The new course has added new lessons and compressed the 9 stages for 3 Grades into 2 grades with 7 modules in each grade and multiple video lessons in each module. The new curriculum includes musical phrases or riffs early on and by the second grade also has some simple tab based harmonized melodies to play by finger style. It is worth seeing the new topics and increased emphasis on developing musicianship and not just technical skill.
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Outstanding.
The new and improved topics and increased emphasis on musicianship is great news!!!
Technical skill is one thing, but musicianship is “king”!!!
Love this post!
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Hi Mark, welcome. Perseverance is what you need and you have plenty of them. You may have rushed a bit the first time and didn’t allow the muscle memory to build up. Check the song is at the right level, two or three chords you have already learnt, with chord changes at the beginning of the bar, and strum only on the first beat of the bar to give you time to prepare for the change. You can slow down the song in the app if still struggling and gradually increasing it each time you reach fluency with the changes. You can later upgrade the strumming to four beats per bar or whichever strumming Justin advices to do. And again you can start slow and increase the speed. Parallel to that, you can also do the one minute changes and the perfect fast changes exercises and go back and try with the app. You may be closer to those clean chord changes than you think. I’m practicing a new song and I’m practicing it at 60% speed to automate the rhythm and the timing of the chord changes.
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Hi Mark,
Welcome back don’t beat yourself up and don’t try to rush best to take your time and enjoy your the journey, We all learn at different speeds.
Great group an great teacher is Justin.
Best of luck.
A
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