If your fingers hurt or your chords buzz… you’re probably using too much pressure.
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This is a great exercise to help me improve. The fret buzz happens to me for certain chords, like b minor and I think it’s due to finger placement. Maybe something as simple as the 1 minute change exercises will help.
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Bm chord is one of my nemeses. I work on it all the time (because it comes up in so many songs) and I still can’t reliably grab it. I’m good on it maybe 60-70% of the time.
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Yep. It’s Bm for me too. I also almost never get my 3rd finger placed correctly on the C chord. Got to stretch it out more! I’m going to start doing these exercises each day as part of my chord changing exercises. I’m definitely pressing too hard. Nice video lesson.
Thanks for the good reminders Teacher 
I got into the habit for each new song to go slowly through the chords first and check that I’m positioning the fingers properly (or at least as best as I can) and it really helps to do some additional work on the wonky changes. I have more difficulties to keep the fingers well alligned and close to the frets when playing horizontaly, to keep the whole hand in a good position, I guess I should re-start with the fingergym. I confess I skipped the Major Scale Patterns 
…but that’s because I wasn’t able to figure out how to make music out of the first one (which I practiced for a while) 
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