How long does it take to learn chord transitions... so its perfect?

Question:Okay. I've been taking private lessons for 7 days, 1 week exactly... I memorized all chords etc, but my transition time between chords is crap! I practice 2 hours a day, is that enough? or should I increase practice time?

am I musical dumbness? or is it normal to have problems after 1 week?

I enjoy playing so much, but crappy transitions hurt my ears :(

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Okay. I've been taking private lessons for 7 days, 1 week exactly... I memorized all chords etc, but my transition time between chords is crap! I practice 2 hours a day, is that enough? or should I increase practice time?

am I musical dumbness? or is it normal to have problems after 1 week?

I enjoy playing so much, but crappy transitions hurt my ears :(

That's silly, ( not even your geniuses learn that quickly ) no one learns this stuff in one week, did you learn to read in seven days ???? I doubt it, even if you studied ten hours a day, .....I do have a new student, ( he's had about four weeks of lessons, he's never touched a guitar before, and the amazing thing to me is that he's left handed but is playing right handed, I have to say that in my years of teaching I've never had anyone learn this quickly....and this was a kid who hated music until he was about fourteen.....he's now sixteen, he's my nephew ) who has learned about ten chords.....some scales....is working on a little theory....can finger pick a few songs..... and can read and play all the notes in the first position....but this is RARE, it takes weeks just to get the callouses required to play without pain. As for increasing your study time don't !!!!!!!!! you may do damage to your hands....I know, thirty five years ago when I first started playing I over did....hours and hours a day....but I paid, I had to see several hand Doctors. Don't increase your study.....just be consistent.....if you've just started do a half hour a day....and work up to an hour when your fingers start to get those callouses that I talked about, if your fingers are alright and your up to it do another half hour at night, .....memorizing the chords is not the hard part, learning to make the chord and change them smoothly is the hard part.....and believe me this will come in time, work on two or three chords at a time until you feel comfortable changing them.....and then go on to the next set, daily practice, is the main thing to keep in mind !!!!!!!! You could play six hours a day but if your hands are sore your not really accomplishing anything, go slow take your time and in the long run you'll see that you'll accomplish a lot more, you'll see that I'm right in time. Tape what your doing now, and then see where your at six months from now.....

Give yourself time to develop your guitar prowess. You can't learn it all in seven days, as many students think. Unless you are a guitar genius you will not be playing like Eric Clapton in a month's time either.

Maximize your use of dominate seventh chords that are stepping stones of transition between major and minor chords. Use a good four-four count system between each chord strumming. Quality transition will develop, but be patient with your progress.

Take your chord chart and then play the 3 chords on a line, in order and that will give you a decent sounding progression.

Personally, I find it hard to belive you or anyone can "memorized all chords" in just a week and the fact you can't transition between them is proof that you don't really know them as well as you think you do.

It takes practice and lots of it. Use the chord chart and that will help, You have only been at it a week... what you want to do will take at LEAST a YEAR to master.

I was going to write a really long answer but chessmaster1018 stole my wind. I think his is the best so far.
good luck