[tbirdman]

I started with Justin Guitar online video lessons. Part of his practice plan was changing between chords for a minute. One exercise you did just a fast change, no strumming, just moving your fingers. Then he had another exercise where you would move between two chords and slowing strumming to make sure you have good fingering. I still do theses exercises when I learning new chords. Eventually muscle memory should take over.

I learned to Travis pick by playing to backing tracks starting at 40 bpm. Working my way up in speed once I was good at a lower speed. I recorded myself one day and saw I looking at my picking hand. I tried to do without looking and discovered I could do it without looking.

I still think of the beginning days when it was one strum per measure. Then 4 strums per measure and then strumming up and down. LOL