Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver Lesson

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BPM on this song has been raised before, see this topic.
Michael

Super fast chord changes needed for Country Roads?

I’ve set myself the challenge of playing through Country Roads verse and chorus, with a D-D-U-U-D strumming pattern on the chorus (so downstrums on the 1, 2 and 4). The song is at about 160BPM, so does that mean that, when a chord changes between bars, I need to fully make the chord change in the time between the final downstrum on beat 4 on the previous bar and the first downstrum on 1 with the new chord on the next bar? I can change chords on the ones I’ve practised for this song at a max of…