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You are right. I've edited my post to correct this. Thanks.
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The problem - and it's a familiar one, at least in my students (I don't recall having a problem myself, but maybe I did) - is the difference between the rhythm of the guitar and the rhythm of the vocal. The guitar tends to keep a steady beat (aside from any fancy strum patterns), while the vocal is usually phrased in a much more complicated way, on and off the beat, syncopated here and there, etc. I.e., there are two different kinds of "natural" rhythm at play. It's "natural" to keep a steady beat in an accompaniment - that's the thing that it's sometimes useful to count, when learning to play it, precisely because the beats are steady, and tend to fall into groups of 4 (sometimes 3), and those measures than also fall into groups of 2 or 4. But as you get the feel of where the changes come, you should stop counting, because counting beyond that stage just confuses everything. Your subconscious has got it; the conscious mind will just get in the way. But the "natural" rhythms in a vocal melody are more related to the varied rhythms of speech. In melodies, natural speech rhythms are often exaggerated, and quantised to various note values (so they are "in time" in that sense), but those note values are more varied than the beats you strum, and accents can occur in unusual places. So it's perfectly "natural" (!) to find it difficult to match one rhythm against the other - certainly if you are still having to think about keeping time with the guitar! You can't think about two different rhythmic patterns at the same time - playing one and singing the other! There are two possible solutions: (1) play the chord sequence over and over and over until it becomes subconscious. Until you can almost have a conversation with someone without disturbing your rhythm. Then it should be easy to sing over it, same as you can walk and talk at the same time without your steps being upset. (2) Practice singing and playing at the same time, but do it slowly, steadily and incrementally, along with the recording. I.e. take just one measure, loop it, and copy it as you listen. This is difficult to begin with, naturally, but may take no longer in the end than (1). It's also a very organic way of learning, because you embed all the interrelationships as you go.
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I sometimes write my chords in sequence before the start of each line of the verse. Then I just "feel" when it's time to change. There are times when that is easier for me.
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The actual chords are usually correct, but not always…… |