Approaching tricky guitar chords

Let's talk about ways to make learning new guitar music a little bit easier. Some people get through their whole career as a guitarist without ever using exercises to gain finger strength. Of those guitar students who do use finger exercises, none is sorry they learnt them. A little bit of extra work will definitely pay off in this area of playing.
Also if you find yourself pressed for time or you've reached the end of the day without doing any guitar practice, and you're low on energy and motivation, finger strength exercises are the thing to do. All you need to do is pick up the guitar and do a few boring, mechanical exercises, and you find that getting into the habit of doing finger exercises will build up your ability to finger unfamiliar chords and scales as well as keeping your hands in "playing condition". The other thing that can happen is that sitting down to do some routine-type practice like finger-strengthening exercises will awaken your feeling for the guitar, and you will suddenly find you have some extra energy to go on and play through some of your regular practice pieces or work on learning some new material.

At Lead Guitar Secrets there's a great free video guitar lesson which teaches you three finger strength exercises that will help you fret difficult chords more easily and increase your picking speed & accuracy.They'll also help you eliminate "dead notes."

Click here to see the video