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...from looking at this progression, how I am supposed to know the timing (3/4 or 4/4?), the measure breaks, when to change chords, or even the timing when singing... You don't! The chords merely constitutes a guide for those who already know the song, i.e. the melody, the meter ("timing") and style. From a perspective of conveying a song to someone ...

@Mark is right on. You've gotta practice enough so you can do it without thinking, even without the instrument. My trick for getting there… play and read the news at the same time. It takes practice; at first you'll only be able to read a headline and then you'll mess up a chord, but eventually you can digest entire news stories while you're playing ...

Practice your guitar in bed at night, with the lights off, and try to find the same note over and over consistently. This will help map your physical muscle memory to your guitar. Secondly, take the chord you know the best, like an Am or EMaj or CMaj usually. Finger this chord to the best of your abilities without looking, only by feel. Strum it a few ...

A really good example might be Steve Vai - he is a master of the long, fast move or slide to a specific fret. With my current band, I wear a very restrictive mask with laser diodes shining out the eye holes, so my vision is extremely curtailed. To manage moves up and down my fretboard I use three techniques: a rapid slide (muted or unmuted) lets you ...

If you look at blind guitarist Raul Midon, you can tell is counting fret with his finger very rapidly when he has to do big jumps. For smaller jumps, just feel where you have to go in relation to the previous chord. I've also heard that French songwriter and guitarist George Brassens use to...saw marks into the back of the neck to have tactile points of ...

You can definitely start slow, but go for precision here- these will not be difficult to play once you become a bit more proficient. There are some really fast songs with intermittent palm muting from bands like Al di Meola, Dragonforce and Yngwie Malmsteen - have a listen to them to see what is possible with practice.

For that song, as an example, you could pretty much pop the strums in where you want. It can be logical to strum every syllable, or every accented syllable, or every measure - the important pieces for this song are the chord changes. If you are a beginner you can focus on only downstrokes, or if you are a little more adventurous you can use up and down, or ...

Check out this youtube... Acoustic, with nylon strings is recommended... Steel strings would hurt!