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D is for "Damn I missed that silly chord again!"

I still haven't figured out why I have such a hard time getting my fingers to the D chord on my guitar. It's been a problem for me since I started playing guitar 7 months ago. It's mostly getting that third finger on the second string that I mess up on.

It's painfully easy, I know. So let me clarify mysel. I can easily hit D in a two-step fingering process - and I've gotten pretty good at doing this fairly quickly - where my first two fingers go and then my third is placed. What seems to be the problem is getting that third finger placed without its predecessors' guidance. Some people would say the other problem I have with that third finger on my left hand is that there's no ring on it yet. ;-)

I've been trying to do really quick chord progressions to and from D to force my fingers to hit it as fast as possible. I'm hoping that this will take the thinking out of it and let my fingers do the walking, so to speak.