Hi there. Relatively new to the app and learning guitar. Loving the journey so far. I’m doing the lessons and not moving on til I get the 30 changes. I’m finding the changes aren’t counting correctly, even though I’m sure I’ve hit the chord cleanly. It changes with more frequency on acoustic, and way less on electric. I’m not sure if it’s me, or the app?
I just looked at my phone timers. I have hear it has a hard time picking up the D. 30 is great progress. You could try cleaning the mic area. You may ve suprised of the gunk the gets intnher eespecially if you have a full hevay duty case. Who knows. Dont let it hold you back. I did chord changes for months and months. I just had a section in my practice routine where I did different one during my first part of it ever day. Next will be The Perfict Chord changes. I still do them when I have difficult ones for a song I am working on with odd chord shapes. I just add that change to my daily practice until i have it down in the song. Then i just continue to practice the song.
The best thing is practice songs with it. Your doing great. Keep it up.
I also had difficulty with the app counting the chords last year. I used my phone timer and counted the chord changes myself in my head when I was practicing.
I never used the App tool for counting my changes back then, despite of a few early attempts.
I set a metronome to whatever my target was and tried to keep up with the beats. Saved me from counting and got my changes more evenly. Setting a timer to a minute and counting changes got me distracted.
The count was always off for me as well. Plus, “chord perfect” tones ceased being registered on iPad mini (OLD ), and iPad (9th gen running 17.6.1), but iPhone (also on 17.6.1) does work–and it’s lintier than others – I’ve tried vacuuming out the mic (yep, cruft was evident). Counting is now just another thing try to distract my mind and help me to be more resilient…
Wow I’ve been getting so frustrated trying to hit the 30 changes, started counting when think it was D to E i was getting stupidly low scores. Just now I’ve realised that D to counts as one and E to D counts as to do I’ve been able to double my manual count score!!! Yippee not so useless after all